Jake Atterby

• Master Of Earth Sciences
• University of Birmingham

Decay experiments are ever increasing in complexity to better understand taphonomic processes. However, adding new variables, such as sediment, can create methodological biases, such as artificial anatomical character loss during exhumation. Non-invasive in situ imaging techniques such as X-ray computed tomography (XCT scanning) could mitigate this...

Teleost fishes comprise more than 36,000 living vertebrate species and occupy a wide range of aquatic ecosystems. Despite their overwhelming success, extinct taxa outside of the living radiation-stem teleosts-remain poorly understood. Dorsetichthys bechei is an Early Jurassic stem teleost of historic importance. Although D. bechei is well described...

Video games now comprise the largest sector of the media entertainment industry. Hundreds of video games, spanning a huge variety of genres and platforms, use extinct animals and/or palaeontological themes as a basis for their gameplay. Because of this, many players, especially children, spend long periods of time engaging with and being immersed i...

Video games now comprise the largest sector of the media entertainment industry. Hundreds of video games, spanning a huge variety of genres and platforms, use extinct animals and/or palaeontological themes as a basis for their gameplay. Because of this, many players, especially children, spend long periods of time engaging with, and immersed in, pa...

Ensuring taught fieldwork is a positive, generative, collective, and valuable experience for all participants requires considerations beyond course content. To guarantee safety and belonging, participants’ identities (backgrounds and protected characteristics) must be considered as a part of fieldwork planning and implementation. Furthermore, getti...