Julian P. Hume, Ph.D.

Julian Hume established himself as a self-taught artist specialising in reconstructing extinct species before undertaking a PhD in island bird palaeontology at the Natural History Museum, London. This provided an opportunity to not only discover extinct species and scientifically describe them but also artistically reconstruct them from their fossil remains. He has travelled around the world to work on fossil sites and has published many peer-reviewed papers and several books on the subject.