John Long: Fossil hunter
Danielle Clode
About the Aussie STEM Stars Series
Each book is written by an award-winning children’s author and follows the real-life stories of some of Australia’s top scientists and inventors, chosen on the basis of their pioneering work. Themes explored include childhood, school, family, and formative experiences, what inspired them to pursue their chosen path, how they persevered in the face of challenges, and what they have contributed to science in Australia.
About John Long: Fossil hunter
John Long is an Australian palaeontologist who got hooked on collecting fossils at the age of 7. He has been on many expeditions to collect fossils throughout Australia, Antarctica and other parts of the world, making ground-breaking discoveries along the way. John’s research has contributed to understanding how reproduction evolved in our distant ancestors, how air- breathing and limbs first evolved, how major global mass extinctions were caused, and he named Australia’s oldest meat-eating dinosaur.
John is currently Strategic Professor in Palaeontology at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia. He was previously the Vice President of Research and Collections at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County in the USA. He is an award-winning author of over 20 popular science books. Throughout his life he has had many interests. John is a black belt who taught karate for 14 years, and he rides motorcycles.
More to love about the Aussie STEM Stars
• Teacher’s notes available. A perfect series for school libraries or home bookshelves.
• A fresh and unique series that focuses on our Australian STEM heroes. Science is more important than ever as we look to our inventors and innovators to solve the contemporary problems facing humanity and the planet.
• John Long’s many ground-breaking discoveries of fossils have changed our thinking about the early evolution of back-boned animals. Paleontology is the study of ancient bones but it is very much a science of the future.
• Narrative non-fiction as a tool for educating children, proving that it can be as fun and interesting as fiction.
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2021 | 9781925893687 | 167 pages | Paperback | 198 x 129 mm | Middle Grade
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Danielle Clode grew up on a boat sailing around Australia with her parents and her cat. She has worked as a zookeeper, in museum collections and feeding giant fish at an underwater observatory. She studied at Adelaide University before doing her zoology doctorate at Oxford University studying seabirds in Scotland. She is now an Associate Professor of Writing at Flinders University in Adelaide. Danielle has written many award-winning nonfiction science books about bushfires, sailing ships, killer whales and nature. She has written three books on Australian fossils including Prehistoric Giants: The Megafauna of Australia, Prehistoric Marine Life of Australia’s Inland Sea and Australia’s Amazing Fossils: From Dinosaurs to Diprotodons.
Read more about her on our Aussie STEM Stars website