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Artist // Professional // Traditional Art
- Nov 21
- Australia
- Deviant for 12 years
- He / Him
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My Bio
An Australian vertebrate palaeontologist. I mainly work on Silurian-Devonian fishes, especially basal actinopterygians.
Favourite Visual Artist
Zdeněk Burian
Favourite Movies
Aliens, Blade Runner, Jurassic Park 1, Serenity, Lord of the Rings, Akira, Harryhausen films (esp. Sinbad trilogy)
Favourite TV Shows
Doctor Who, Walking with Dinosaurs, Babylon 5, Firefly
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Pink Floyd, The Who, Iron Maiden, Powderfinger, Suzanne Vega, Eurythmics
Favourite Games
Fallout, Elder Scrolls, Total War, Resident Evil, Silent Hill
Favourite Gaming Platform
PC/PS3
Other Interests
Natural History, fossils, aquaria, herpetology, wildlife photography, scuba/snorkeling
2nd Nature paper ahoy!
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Penetrative copulation is the default setting for the Gnathostomata!
Paper = http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature13825.html
Summary = http://www.nature.com/news/fossils-rewrite-history-of-penetrative-sex-1.16173
(Note that on the simplified cladogram, the Chondrichthyes branch is mislabelled as Placodermi - and they've credited me as "David Choo")
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Off to Craven's Peak
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About to head off for 2 weeks in the northern Simpson Desert in search of Early-Middle Devonian fish fossils. Will be out of contact until the 1st week of August.
We'll take what we can get, but my #1 goal is to find some pituriaspids.
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Bagged a whopper in the Silurian
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Well, less than 24 hours after tracking nothosaurs in the Triassic, I reeled in the biggest fish of the Silurian.
paper= http://www.nature.com/srep/2014/140612/srep05242/full/srep05242.html
summary= http://www.livescience.com/46271-biggest-devonian-predator.html
Will add to the gallery once I gotten some sleep.
Its been a hectic week...
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Happy Birthday
I wish you to spend an amazing day with your beloved ones! ^__^
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday Brian!
Please allow me to wish you Many Happy Returns of the Day on what I hope shall be a Very Happy Birthday!
