Nick Crumpton

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

University of Bristol

University of Leeds
Scientific career
Fields Functional 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.

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Education and research career

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

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

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

References

  1. ↑ "Antonio Ballell Mayoral wins Geologists' Association MSc Prize – MSc in Palaeobiology". mscpalaeo.blogs.bristol.ac.uk. Retrieved 2025-01-29.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ "Fossil discovery in Indonesia reveals 'lost world' of beasts". Mongabay Environmental News. 2017-09-19. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  9. ↑ "Flying Eye Books - Triassic Terrors". Flying Eye Books. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  10. ↑ "Flying Eye Books - The Amazing Animal Atlas". Flying Eye Books. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  11. ↑ "Why do dogs sniff bottoms?". thamesandhudson.com. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  12. ↑ "Why Do Cats Meow?: Curious Questions About Your Favorite Pets". Thames & Hudson USA. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  13. ↑ "Why can't horses burp? (Favourite Pets)". thamesandhudson.com. Retrieved 2025-01-29.
  14. ↑ "Everything You Know About Archives". Nosy Crow. Retrieved 2025-01-29.
  15. ↑ "The Fellows". British Science Association. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  16. ↑ "Ancient world hidden in London's walls". BBC News. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  17. ↑ "Animal Super Senses | BBC Earth | Shows". BBC Earth. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  18. ↑ "BBC Four - Secrets of Bones, Down to Earth, In pictures: Down to earth - Not close relatives". BBC. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  19. ↑ "Fearless attack lemming - World's Weirdest Events: Episode 2 - BBC Two". Youtube.
  20. ↑ UCL (2015-09-25). "Listeners' science questions". UCL News. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  21. ↑ "How many geckos to hold up a human?". www.thenakedscientists.com. 2015-05-26. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  22. ↑ Crumpton, Nick (2015-03-11). "Why the science manuscript must also have literary merit". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  23. ↑ "Mammals vs dinosaurs". University of Cambridge. 2013-03-15. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  24. ↑ "Nick Crumpton". Hay Festival. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  25. ↑ "The Swindon stegosaur". www.nhm.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
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