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Darren Naish
Darren Naish (born 26 September 1976[citation needed]) is a British vertebrate palaeontologist, author and science communicator.
As a researcher, he is best known for his work describing and reevaluating dinosaurs and other Mesozoic reptiles, including dinosaurs, such as Eotyrannus and Xenoposeidon; flying reptiles, such as Vectidraco and Eurazhdarcho;; and ichthyosaurs, such as Malawania and Acamptonectes. A significant amount of his research has focussed on fossils from the exposures of the Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation of the Wealden Group along the south-west coast of the Isle of Wight, which has noted containing rich, diverse and well-documented dinosaur fauna.
Naish founded the vertebrate palaeozoology blog Tetrapod Zoology, and has written several popular science books. Naish also makes frequent media appearances and is a scientific consultant and advisor for film, television, museums and exhibitions. Naish is also known for scepticism in work examining cryptozoology topics, including sea monster sightings.
Born Darren William Naish in England[where?] on 26 September 1976,[citation needed] Naish obtained an undergraduate geology degree at the University of Southampton.[citation needed] He went on to study vertebrate palaeontology under David Martill at the University of Portsmouth, where he obtained both an M. Phil.,[better source needed] and then a Ph.D. in 2006.
Naish began his palaeontology research intending to work on fossilised marine reptiles, but became known as a result of his graduate work,[according to whom?][citation needed] especially on the basal tyrannosauroid theropod Eotyrannus,[citation needed] a dinosaur that, in 2001, with his Southampton thesis advisor David Martill, and Steve Hutt of the Museum of Isle of Wight Geology, he and other colleagues shared publication authorship wherein the theropod was first named.
As of 2009, Naish was being reported to hold the position of "Honorary Research Associate in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Portsmouth".[better source needed]
Naish has published articles on the Wealden Supergroup theropods Thecocoelurus, Calamospondylus and Aristosuchus. With Martill and "Dino" Frey, he named a new illegally acquired Brazilian compsognathid theropod Mirischia. In 2004, Naish and Gareth Dyke reinterpreted the controversial Romanian fossil Heptasteornis. Suggested by other authors to be a giant owl, troodontid or dromaeosaurid, it was argued by Naish and Dyke to be an alvarezsaurid, and as such is the first member of this group to be reported from Europe. Other fragmentary European alvarezsaurid specimens have since been reported.[citation needed]
Naish has also published work on sauropod dinosaurs, pterosaurs, fossil marine reptiles, turtles, marine mammals and other fossil vertebrates, and he has also produced articles on other aspects of zoology.[citation needed] He published a series of articles on poorly known cetaceans during the 1990s and in 2004 published a review article on the giant New Zealand gecko Hoplodactylus delcourti.[independent source needed]
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Darren Naish
Darren Naish (born 26 September 1976[citation needed]) is a British vertebrate palaeontologist, author and science communicator.
As a researcher, he is best known for his work describing and reevaluating dinosaurs and other Mesozoic reptiles, including dinosaurs, such as Eotyrannus and Xenoposeidon; flying reptiles, such as Vectidraco and Eurazhdarcho;; and ichthyosaurs, such as Malawania and Acamptonectes. A significant amount of his research has focussed on fossils from the exposures of the Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation of the Wealden Group along the south-west coast of the Isle of Wight, which has noted containing rich, diverse and well-documented dinosaur fauna.
Naish founded the vertebrate palaeozoology blog Tetrapod Zoology, and has written several popular science books. Naish also makes frequent media appearances and is a scientific consultant and advisor for film, television, museums and exhibitions. Naish is also known for scepticism in work examining cryptozoology topics, including sea monster sightings.
Born Darren William Naish in England[where?] on 26 September 1976,[citation needed] Naish obtained an undergraduate geology degree at the University of Southampton.[citation needed] He went on to study vertebrate palaeontology under David Martill at the University of Portsmouth, where he obtained both an M. Phil.,[better source needed] and then a Ph.D. in 2006.
Naish began his palaeontology research intending to work on fossilised marine reptiles, but became known as a result of his graduate work,[according to whom?][citation needed] especially on the basal tyrannosauroid theropod Eotyrannus,[citation needed] a dinosaur that, in 2001, with his Southampton thesis advisor David Martill, and Steve Hutt of the Museum of Isle of Wight Geology, he and other colleagues shared publication authorship wherein the theropod was first named.
As of 2009, Naish was being reported to hold the position of "Honorary Research Associate in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Portsmouth".[better source needed]
Naish has published articles on the Wealden Supergroup theropods Thecocoelurus, Calamospondylus and Aristosuchus. With Martill and "Dino" Frey, he named a new illegally acquired Brazilian compsognathid theropod Mirischia. In 2004, Naish and Gareth Dyke reinterpreted the controversial Romanian fossil Heptasteornis. Suggested by other authors to be a giant owl, troodontid or dromaeosaurid, it was argued by Naish and Dyke to be an alvarezsaurid, and as such is the first member of this group to be reported from Europe. Other fragmentary European alvarezsaurid specimens have since been reported.[citation needed]
Naish has also published work on sauropod dinosaurs, pterosaurs, fossil marine reptiles, turtles, marine mammals and other fossil vertebrates, and he has also produced articles on other aspects of zoology.[citation needed] He published a series of articles on poorly known cetaceans during the 1990s and in 2004 published a review article on the giant New Zealand gecko Hoplodactylus delcourti.[independent source needed]