Chris Jarvis is one of the Education Officers at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Having spent his formative years in Nigeria, where he grew up surrounded by wildlife and kept snakes, owls, bushbabies, bushpig and other animals as pets, he has been a keen amateur naturalist all his life.
During his early teens he kept a room full of frogs he had collected on trips to different countries, and stuffed his bookshelves with bones and fossils. At college he read Philosophy and History, maintaining his passion for nature. Chris Jarvis now runs large public family events at the Museum, which received the Guardian newspaper’s ‘Family Friendly Museum of the Year’ award in 2005, and annually teaches over 7,500 children the basics and beyond in Entomology, Zoology, Geology and Palaeontology, encouraging them to learn by handling and observing live and dead specimens in the hope of inspiring the next generation of naturalists.
He also writes and draws cartoons based on natural history, and has acted as a consultant on various children’s science books and appeared on 5 TV’s science quiz show ‘How on Earth?’
The Descent of the Dinosaurs
Chris Jarvis
25 Sept 2008; Science Oxford.
From terrifying T-Rex to super-sized sauropods - discover the story of the evolution of the dinosaurs How did the dinosaurs evolve, what did they evolve from, and could their descendants still be alive today?Chris Jarvis, from the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, will explain how rocks and fossil
