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Nick Crumpton
Nick Crumpton speaking in front of a public audience at the Hay Festival, 2018.
Born12 April 1986, Bromsgrove, England
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge

University of Bristol

University of Leeds
Scientific career
FieldsFunctional Anatomy

Mammalian Evolution

Palaeobiology
Thesis Osteological correlates of sensory systems in small mammals
Websitewww.nickcrumpton.com

Nick Crumpton (born 1986) is a British zoologist and children's author.

Education and research career

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Crumpton holds a BSc in ecology from the University of Leeds, and an MSc in palaeobiology from the University of Bristol, for which he was awarded the Geologists Association's Curry Prize. He gained his PhD from the University of Cambridge with research undertaken at the Department of Zoology.

He has held post-doctoral research posts at the Zoological Society of London and University College London and undertaken field work in Indonesia and North America. His research has centered on ecomorphology[1] and functional anatomy,[2] convergent evolution,[3] mammalian evolution during the Mesozoic era,[4] and recent mammal biodiversity in the Caribbean[5] and Indonesia.[6] He has helped describe three species of mammals new to science.[7] He sits on the council of the Systematics Association and is a Fellow of the Linnean Society.

Books

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Crumpton's first non-fiction book for children, Triassic Terrors,[8] illustrated by Isaac Lenkiewicz, was published by Flying Eye Books in 2012 and introduced readers to less commonly known non-dinosaur animals from the Triassic period. This was followed by The Amazing Animal Atlas[9] in 2017, illustrated by Gaia Bordicchia. The latter book presented an array of animals found on Earth, with an emphasis on lesser known species.

The first two books in a series of three, Why Do Dogs Sniff Bottoms[10] and Why Do Cats Meow,[11] were published in 2020 by Thames & Hudson, illustrated by Lily Snowden-Fine.

Media and public engagement

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Crumpton was awarded a British Science Association Media Fellowship in 2012 and spent this time at the BBC Radio Science Unit and the Science and Environment news website[12] and has made film[13] and radio segments for the BBC. He has acted as scientific consultant on natural history television series,[14] BBC Bitesize online games and publishers including Ladybird, Lonely Planet and Phaidon. He has also appeared on BBC[15][16] and CBBC television programmes, BBC Radio,[17] the Naked Scientists podcast,[18] and has written for the Guardian newspaper.[19] He has spoken at the Cambridge Science Festival,[20] the Hay Festival of Literature & Arts[21] and the Bath Children's Literature Festival and worked as a professional science communicator at the Natural History Museum, London.[22]

Select publications

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  • Crumpton, N. 2024. Brown Bears. Walker.
  • Bronner, G. N., Mynhardt, S., Bennett, N. C., Cohen, L., Crumpton, N., Hofreiter, M., Arnold, P., Asher, R. J., 2024. "Phylogenetic history of golden moles and tenrecs (Mammalia: Afrotheria)", Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 201(1), 184-213.
  • Crumpton, N. 2023. How to Chat Chicken, Gossip Gorilla, Babble Bee, Gab Gecko and Talk in 66 Other Animal Languages. What on Earth Books.
  • Crumpton, N. 2023. Everything You Know About Sharks is Wrong!. Nosy Crow.
  • Crumpton, N. 2022. Animal Super Powers: The Most Amazing Ways Animals Have Evolved. Walker Studios.
  • Turvey, S. T., Crees, J. J., Hansford, J., Jeffree, T. E., Crumpton N., Kurniawan, I., Setiyabudi, E., Guillerme, T., Paranggarimu, U., Dosseto, A. and Van Den Ber, G. D. 2017. "Quaternary vertebrate faunas from Sumba, Indonesia: implications for Wallacean biogeography and evolution", Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 284, 1861.
  • Crumpton, N., Kardjilov, N. and Asher, R. J. 2015. "Convergence vs. specialization in the ear region of moles (Mammalia)", Journal of morphology, 276(8), 900-914.

References

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  1. ^ Crumpton, Nick; Thompson, Richard S. (2013-09-01). "The Holes of Moles: Osteological Correlates of the Trigeminal Nerve in Talpidae". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 20 (3): 213–225. doi:10.1007/s10914-012-9213-2. ISSN 1573-7055. S2CID 254702643.
  2. ^ Billet, Guillaume; Hautier, Lionel; Asher, Robert J.; Schwarz, Cathrin; Crumpton, Nick; Martin, Thomas; Ruf, Irina (2012-10-07). "High morphological variation of vestibular system accompanies slow and infrequent locomotion in three-toed sloths". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 279 (1744): 3932–3939. doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.1212. PMC 3427580. PMID 22859594.
  3. ^ Crumpton, Nick; Kardjilov, Nikolay; Asher, Robert J. (August 2015). "Convergence vs. Specialization in the ear region of moles (Mammalia)". Journal of Morphology. 276 (8): 900–914. doi:10.1002/jmor.20391. ISSN 1097-4687. PMID 25858660. S2CID 10039064.
  4. ^ Gill, Pamela G.; Purnell, Mark A.; Crumpton, Nick; Brown, Kate Robson; Gostling, Neil J.; Stampanoni, M.; Rayfield, Emily J. (August 2014). "Dietary specializations and diversity in feeding ecology of the earliest stem mammals". Nature. 512 (7514): 303–305. Bibcode:2014Natur.512..303G. doi:10.1038/nature13622. hdl:2381/29192. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 25143112. S2CID 4469841.
  5. ^ Turvey, Samuel T.; Peters, Stuart; Brace, Selina; Young, Richard P.; Crumpton, Nick; Hansford, James; Nuñez‐Miño, Jose M.; King, Gemma; Tsalikidis, Katrina; Ottenwalder, José A.; Timpson, Adrian (2016). "Independent evolutionary histories in allopatric populations of a threatened Caribbean land mammal". Diversity and Distributions. 22 (5): 589–602. doi:10.1111/ddi.12420. ISSN 1472-4642.
  6. ^ Turvey, Samuel T.; Crees, Jennifer J.; Hansford, James; Jeffree, Timothy E.; Crumpton, Nick; Kurniawan, Iwan; Setiyabudi, Erick; Guillerme, Thomas; Paranggarimu, Umbu; Dosseto, Anthony; van den Bergh, Gerrit D. (2017-08-30). "Quaternary vertebrate faunas from Sumba, Indonesia: implications for Wallacean biogeography and evolution". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 284 (1861): 20171278. doi:10.1098/rspb.2017.1278. PMC 5577490. PMID 28855367.
  7. ^ "Fossil discovery in Indonesia reveals 'lost world' of beasts". Mongabay Environmental News. 2017-09-19. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  8. ^ "Flying Eye Books - Triassic Terrors". Flying Eye Books. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  9. ^ "Flying Eye Books - The Amazing Animal Atlas". Flying Eye Books. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  10. ^ "Why do dogs sniff bottoms?". thamesandhudson.com. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  11. ^ "Why Do Cats Meow?: Curious Questions About Your Favorite Pets". Thames & Hudson USA. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  12. ^ "The Fellows". British Science Association. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  13. ^ "Ancient world hidden in London's walls". BBC News. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  14. ^ "Animal Super Senses | BBC Earth | Shows". BBC Earth. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  15. ^ "BBC Four - Secrets of Bones, Down to Earth, In pictures: Down to earth - Not close relatives". BBC. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  16. ^ "Fearless attack lemming - World's Weirdest Events: Episode 2 - BBC Two". Youtube.
  17. ^ UCL (2015-09-25). "Listeners' science questions". UCL News. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  18. ^ "How many geckos to hold up a human?". www.thenakedscientists.com. 2015-05-26. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  19. ^ Crumpton, Nick (2015-03-11). "Why the science manuscript must also have literary merit". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  20. ^ "Mammals vs dinosaurs". University of Cambridge. 2013-03-15. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  21. ^ "Nick Crumpton". Hay Festival. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  22. ^ "The Swindon stegosaur". www.nhm.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
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