Popular Science Articles & Other Blogs

Popular science articles I’ve written for independent news websites (e.g. The Conversation) or other blog sites.

2025

• CLEMENT, A. M. Tilly Edinger, ses moulages de cerveaux fossiles et son exil d’Allemagne nazie. The Conversation.

2024

• Cloutier, R. CLEMENT, A. M., Long, J. A. We discovered a new fossil species of prehistoric fish. The Conversation.
• Cloutier, R. CLEMENT, A. M., Long, J. A. Nous avons découvert une nouvelle espèce fossile de poisson préhistorique. The Conversation.
• CLEMENT, A. M. & Long, J. A. Exceptional new fish fossil sparks rethink of how Earth’s geology drives evolution. The Conversation.
• Choo, B., CLEMENT, A. M., Long, J. A. A 380-million-year old predatory fish from Central Australia is finally named after decades of digging. The Conversation.

2023

• CLEMENT, A. M., Camens, A. B., & van Zoelen, J. 2023. A new virtual museum reveals 600 million years of Australian fossils in unprecedented 3D detail. The Conversation.
• Shute, E., CLEMENT, A. M., & Prideaux, G. 2023. The skull of the Night Parrot – a bluffy head & big ears. The Conversation.
• CLEMENT, A. M. 2023. We can still see these 5 traces of ancestor species in all human bodies today. The Conversation.

2022

• CLEMENT, A. M. 2022. From coelacanths to crinoids: these 9 ‘living fossils’ haven’t changed in millions of years. The Conversation.

2021

• CLEMENT, A. M. 2021. Remembering Tilly Edinger, the pioneering ‘brainy’ woman who fled Nazi Germany and founded palaeoneurology. The Conversation.
• CLEMENT, A. M. 2021. When our evolutionary ancestors first crawled onto land, their brains only half-filled their skulls. The Conversation.

2020

• Cloutier, R., Long, J. and CLEMENT, A. M. 2020. Elpistostege: a fish with legs or a tetrapod with fins? The Science Breaker. Dec 16, 2020.

2019

• CLEMENT, A. M. 2019. Au revoir, Richard! Beer n’ Bones. 13(2), 2-3.

2018

• CLEMENT, A. M. 2018. The Enigma Fish from Wee Jasper. Beer n’ Bones. 12(3), 7-8.
• CLEMENT, A. M. and Long, J. A. 2018. It’s less than 2cm long, but this 400 million year old fossil fish changes our view of vertebrate evolution. The Conversation. (Published May 30).
• CLEMENT, A. M. 2018. How to become a palaeontologist. Australia’s Science Channel (republished by Lisa Bailey). April 18, 2018.
• CLEMENT, A. M. 2018. On the hunt for tetrapod footprints. Beer n’ Bones. 12(1), 1-3.

2016

• CLEMENT, A. M. and Long, J. A. 2016. A new brain-warp technique that helps to reconstruct fossil brains. The Conversation. (Published July 21).

2012

• CLEMENT, A. M. 2012. (Various blog pieces http://www.blog.fishesofaustralia.net.au)

2010

• CLEMENT, A. M. 2010. The First Breath. Australasian Science. 31, 5.