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John Pickrell

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Covers:  Paleontology, fossils, dinosaurs, natural history, wildlife, nature, environment, ecology, evolution, conservation, Australia, travel, adventure, human evolution, archaeology, science, palaeontology
Executive Editor APAC & China, branded content at @nature. Author: Flames of Extinction; Flying Dinosaurs; Weird Dinosaurs @ColumbiaUP @newsouthpub @IslandPress
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John Pickrell’s Biography

JOHN PICKRELL is an award-winning freelance journalist, the author of Flying Dinosaurs and Weird Dinosaurs and a former editor of Australian Geographic magazine. He has worked in London, Washington DC and Sydney for publications including New Scientist, Science, Science News and Cosmos. John’s articles can also be found online and in print at Nature, National Geographic, Scientific American, Focus, BBC Future, The Guardian and the ABC. He has been a finalist in the Australian Museum’s Eureka prizes three times, won an Earth Journalism Award and was previously featured in The Best Australian Science Writing in 2011, 2014, 2015 and 2017. He is the editor of the The Best Australian Science Writing 2018. John studied biology at Imperial College in the UK and has a Master of Science in taxonomy and biodiversity from the Natural History Museum, London. When John isn’t writing these days, he can sometimes be found on fossil digs in Australia, Argentina and Mongolia. Find him on Twitter @john_pickrell.