Nick Longrich

Dr Nick Longrich is a governor at the London Institute and a palaeontologist, evolutionary biologist and writer at the University of Bath. He studied ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton, since when he has done a masters at Chicago University, a PhD at Calgary University, and a postdoc at Yale. He has worked on understanding large scale evolutionary transitions, including the roles of rare events like catastrophes and oceanic rafting in driving evolution. He has described the existence of accessory wings in the Jurassic bird Archaeopteryx, a four-legged snake transitional between modern snakes and lizards, and over a dozen new dinosaurs, including a new species of Tyrannosaurus.