John Long researches the early evolution of vertebrates in order to unravel the stages of how the modern vertebrate body plan evolved. He has served as the Vice President of Research and Collections at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Head of Sciences at Museum Victoria and as Curator of Vertebrate Palaeontology at the Western Australian Museum. Long has conducted field work collecting fossils in Australia, Antarctica , Southeast Asia, The US, Iran, South Africa and China. He is also author of some 30 adult and children's books, including non-fiction and fiction.
