Nick Crumpton
Nick Crumpton | |
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![]() Nick Crumpton speaking in front of a public audience at the Hay Festival, 2018. | |
Born | 12 April 1986, Bromsgrove, England |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge University of Leeds |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Functional Anatomy Palaeobiology |
Thesis | Osteological correlates of sensory systems in small mammals |
Website | www.nickcrumpton.com |
Nick Crumpton (born 1986) is a British zoologist and children's author.
Education and research career
[edit]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.[1] 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[2] and functional anatomy,[3] convergent evolution,[4] mammalian evolution during the Mesozoic era,[5] and recent mammal biodiversity in the Caribbean[6] and Indonesia.[7] He has helped describe three species of mammals new to science.[8] He has sat on the council of the Systematics Association and is a Fellow of the Linnean Society.
Books
[edit]Crumpton's first non-fiction book for children, Triassic Terrors,[9] 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[10] in 2017, illustrated by Gaia Bordicchia. The latter book presented an array of animals found on Earth, with an emphasis on lesser known species.
A series of three books, Why Do Dogs Sniff Bottoms,[11] Why Do Cats Meow[12] and Why Can't Horses Burp[13] were published by Thames & Hudson and illustrated by Lily Snowden-Fine, while his Everything You Know About series was published by Nosy Crow in the UK,[14] the first title of which has been translated into more than 15 languages.
Media and public engagement
[edit]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[15] and has made film[16] and radio segments for the BBC. He has acted as scientific consultant on natural history television series,[17] BBC Bitesize online games and publishers including Ladybird, Lonely Planet and Phaidon. He has also appeared on BBC[18][19] and CBBC television programmes, BBC Radio,[20] the Naked Scientists podcast,[21] and has written for the Guardian newspaper.[22] He has spoken at the Cambridge Science Festival,[23] the Hay Festival of Literature & Arts[24] and the Bath Children's Literature Festival and worked as a professional science communicator at the Natural History Museum, London.[25]
Select publications
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ "Antonio Ballell Mayoral wins Geologists' Association MSc Prize – MSc in Palaeobiology". mscpalaeo.blogs.bristol.ac.uk. Retrieved 2025-01-29.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Fossil discovery in Indonesia reveals 'lost world' of beasts". Mongabay Environmental News. 2017-09-19. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
- ^ "Flying Eye Books - Triassic Terrors". Flying Eye Books. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
- ^ "Flying Eye Books - The Amazing Animal Atlas". Flying Eye Books. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
- ^ "Why do dogs sniff bottoms?". thamesandhudson.com. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
- ^ "Why Do Cats Meow?: Curious Questions About Your Favorite Pets". Thames & Hudson USA. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
- ^ "Why can't horses burp? (Favourite Pets)". thamesandhudson.com. Retrieved 2025-01-29.
- ^ "Everything You Know About Archives". Nosy Crow. Retrieved 2025-01-29.
- ^ "The Fellows". British Science Association. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
- ^ "Ancient world hidden in London's walls". BBC News. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
- ^ "Animal Super Senses | BBC Earth | Shows". BBC Earth. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
- ^ "BBC Four - Secrets of Bones, Down to Earth, In pictures: Down to earth - Not close relatives". BBC. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
- ^ "Fearless attack lemming - World's Weirdest Events: Episode 2 - BBC Two". Youtube.
- ^ UCL (2015-09-25). "Listeners' science questions". UCL News. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
- ^ "How many geckos to hold up a human?". www.thenakedscientists.com. 2015-05-26. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
- ^ Crumpton, Nick (2015-03-11). "Why the science manuscript must also have literary merit". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
- ^ "Mammals vs dinosaurs". University of Cambridge. 2013-03-15. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
- ^ "Nick Crumpton". Hay Festival. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
- ^ "The Swindon stegosaur". www.nhm.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-04-26.