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John Pickrell is an award-winning journalist and the editor of Australian Geographic magazine. He has worked in London, Washington DC and Sydney for publications including New Scientist, Science, Science News and Cosmos. John’s articles can also be found online and in print at BBC Wildlife, National Geographic, Scientific American and the ABC. He has been a finalist in the Australian Museum’s Eureka prizes three times, won an Earth Journalism Award and featured in The Best Australian Science Writing anthology in 2011 and 2014. John studied biology at Imperial College in the UK and has a Master of Science in taxonomy and biodiversity from London’s Natural History Museum.

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	Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds 4.15 avg rating — 364 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Best Australian Science Writing 2018 4.32 avg rating — 22 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Exciting news for fans of Flying Dinosaurs, my new book – Weird Dinosaurs: The Strange New Fossils Challenging Everything We Thought We Knew – is coming very soon. Advance copies are hot off the press and have just arrived from my publisher NewSouth. It goes on sale in Australia on 1 November. The US/UK version ... [Read more...] Read more of this blog post »

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East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity

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“fluffy, feathered poodle from Hell’.”
― John Pickrell, Weird Dinosaurs: The Strange New Fossils Challenging Everything We Thought We Knew

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“I have to agree with John Long that the thought of a 2-metre-long, explosively eversible, corkscrew-shaped T. rex penis is pretty terrifying.”
― John Pickrell, Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds

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