Richard Ellis (biologist)

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Richard Ellis (born April 2, 1938) is an American marine biologist , author, and illustrator. He is a research associate in the American Museum of Natural History 's division of paleontology , [1] special adviser to the American Cetacean Society , [ citation needed ] and a member of the Explorers Club . [2] He was U.S. delegate to International Whaling Commission from 1980 to 1990. [ citation needed ]

His paintings have been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world, and his murals can be seen in the Denver Museum of Natural History , the New Bedford Whaling Museum in Massachusetts , [3] and Whaleworld, a museum in Albany, Western Australia . [4] He is the author of more than 100 magazine articles, which have appeared in National Geographic , Natural History , Audubon , Curator , National Wildlife , Geo , Australian Geographic , and Reader's Digest . [ citation needed ] He has written 23 books, including The Book of Sharks, The Book of Whales , Dolphins and Porpoises , Men and Whales , Great White Shark (with John McCosker), Encyclopedia of the Sea , Aquagenesis: The Origin and Evolution of Life in the Sea , Deep Atlantic , Monsters of the Sea , Imagining Atlantis , The Search for the Giant Squid , Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn , No Turning Back: The Life and Death of Animal Species , Sea Dragons: Predators of Prehistoric Seas , Tuna , [5] The Empty Ocean , and Swordfish: A Biography of the Ocean Gladiator . On Thin Ice looks into the changing world of polar bears and highlights their problems caused by global warming and disappearing Arctic ice . [6] In 2011 the University Press of Kansas published The Great Sperm Whale: A Natural History of the Ocean's Most Magnificent and Mysterious Creature . Richard Ellis curated a show on sharks in art for the Fort Lauderdale Art Museum, from May 2012 to January 2013. [7]

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  1. ^ "Whale trainer death tied to mating, isolation" . NBC News. February 25, 2010. Archived from the original on July 5, 2021 . Retrieved September 20, 2016 .
  2. ^ "The Explorers Club" . www.explorers.org . Archived from the original on June 29, 2016 . Retrieved July 5, 2021 .
  3. ^ "Whaling museum offers 24-hour Moby Dick reading". Providence Journal (Mass. ed.) . January 2, 1998. p. C.04.
  4. ^ "Albany's Historic Whaling Station" . Children's University . Archived from the original on July 5, 2021 . Retrieved July 5, 2021 .
  5. ^ Warshof, Jason (July 22, 2008). "Enjoy the tour, and please don't lick the tuna" . The San Francisco Chronicle . Archived from the original on November 29, 2010 . Retrieved July 2, 2010 .
  6. ^ "Author: Polar Bears Are 'On Thin Ice' " . NPR. November 22, 2009. Archived from the original on August 14, 2018 . Retrieved September 20, 2016 .
  7. ^ "SHARK, the newest exhibition at the Museum of Art Ft Lauderdale" . Starmark. January 6, 2013. Archived from the original on August 14, 2018 . Retrieved September 20, 2016 .

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