Blog posts

Here is a selection of articles I have written about subjects that I am passionate about. Click on the images to read more.

Were enormous octopuses apex predators in ancient oceans? Image: Yohei Utsuki, Hokkaido University

Art of the corpse

Art of the corpse. Detail from Body of a Courtesan in Nine Stages of Decomposition, handscroll, Meiji Japan, c.1870s © The Trustees of the British Museum.
Fossil Focus: Coleoid cephalopods – the squid, cuttlefish and octopus.
Solving the mystery of Tullimonstrum.