Dr Peter Falkingham
School of Biological and Environmental Sciences

Faculty: Faculty of Science
Email address: P.L.Falkingham@ljmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0151 231 2140
Reader in Vertebrate Biology
Please visit my personal website for my blog and a much clearer overview of my research and publications: https://peterfalkingham.com
My primary research focus is on dinosaur locomotion and footprint formation. Specifically, how the foot and sediment interact, and how we can subsequently reverse-engineer their formation in order to constrain and understand the limb motion of these extinct animals.
By understanding the motion of substrate around a dynamically moving foot, it is possible to use tracks to constrain possible motions of the distal (and therefore proximal) limb. My work incorporates digitisation of fossil tracks and computer simulation as well as using data from extant taxa using XROMM techniques to study the sub-surface motion of the foot during locomotion.
In addition to my work on footprints, I’m also involved in other research areas including dinosaur biomechanics and taxonomy, development of digitsation techniques and applications, cambrian echinoderm hydrodynamics, and materials science, collaborating with scientists from the UK, USA, across Europe, Australia, and South America.
Languages
English
Degrees
2010, University of Manchester, United Kingdom, PhD Palaeontology - Computer Simulation of Dinosaur Tracks
2004, University of Bristol, United Kingdom, Computer Science MSc
2003, University of Bristol, UK, Biology and Geology BSc (Hons)
Academic appointments
Reader in Vertebrate Biology, School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, 2020 - present
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer Vertebrate Biology, Natural Sciences and Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, 2015 - 2020
Marie Curie Research Fellow, Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Royal Veterinary College, 2012 - 2015
Postgraduate training
Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellow, UK/USA, Royal Veterinary College/Brown University, 2012 - 2015
Highlighted publications
Hatala KG, Gatesy SM, Falkingham PL. 2023. Arched footprints preserve the motions of fossil hominin feet Nature Ecology and Evolution, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Lallensack JN, Romilio A, Falkingham PL. 2022. A machine learning approach for the discrimination of theropod and ornithischian dinosaur tracks Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 19 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Turner ML, Falkingham PL, Gatesy SM. 2022. What is Stance Phase On Deformable Substrates? Integrative and Comparative Biology, DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Lallensack JN, Falkingham PL. 2022. A new method to calculate limb phase from trackways reveals gaits of sauropod dinosaurs Current Biology, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Falkingham P, Turner M, Gatesy S. 2020. Constructing and testing hypotheses of dinosaur foot motions from fossil tracks using digitization and simulation Palaeontology, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Tuner M, Falkingham PL, Gatesy S. 2020. It's in the loop: shared sub-surface foot kinematics in birds and other dinosaurs shed light on a new dimension of fossil track diversity Biology Letters, 16 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Crandell K, Howe R, Falkingham P. 2019. Repeated evolution of drag reduction at the air-water interface in diving kingfishers Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 16 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Gatesy SM, Falkingham PL. 2017. Neither bones nor feet: track morphological variation and “preservation quality” Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Rahman I, Zamora S, Falkingham PL, Phillips JC. 2015. Cambrian cinctan echinoderms shed light on feeding in the ancestral deuterostome Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Falkingham PL, Gatesy SM. 2014. The birth of a dinosaur footprint: Subsurface 3D motion reconstruction and discrete element simulation reveal track ontogeny Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111 :18279-18284 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Falkingham PL. 2014. Interpreting ecology and behaviour from the vertebrate fossil track record JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY, 292 :222-228 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Journal article
Oussou A, Falkingham PL, Butler RJ, Boumir K, Ouarhache D, Ech-charay K, Charrière A, Maidment SCR. 2023. New Middle to ?Late Jurassic dinosaur tracksites in the Central High Atlas Mountains, Morocco Royal Society Open Science, 10 DOI Publisher Url
Vincelette A, Renders E, Scott K, Falkingham P, Janis C. 2023. Hipparion tracks and horses' toes: the evolution of the equid single hoof Royal Society Open Science, 10 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Flannery-Sutherland JT, Kogan I, Trubin YS, Falkingham PL, Winkler A, De Sousa DD, Krylov KD, Pokhaznikova AA, Derbisheva M, Kapitany T, Dudashvili A. 2023. Dinosaur trackways from the Upper Cretaceous Nichkesai Formation near Mayluu Suu City, Southern Tien Shan Mountains, north-western Kyrgyzstan Royal Society Open Science, 10 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Hatala KG, Gatesy SM, Falkingham PL. 2023. Arched footprints preserve the motions of fossil hominin feet Nature Ecology and Evolution, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Grant B, Charles J, Geraghty B, Gardiner J, D'Août K, Falkingham PL, Bates KT. 2022. Why does the metabolic cost of walking increase on compliant substrates? Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 19 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Lallensack JN, Romilio A, Falkingham PL. 2022. A machine learning approach for the discrimination of theropod and ornithischian dinosaur tracks Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 19 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Lallensack JN, Owais A, Falkingham PL, Breithaupt BH, Sander PM. 2022. How to verify fossil tracks: the first record of dinosaurs from Palestine Historical Biology: an international journal of paleobiology, :1-11 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Turner ML, Falkingham PL, Gatesy SM. 2022. What is Stance Phase On Deformable Substrates? Integrative and Comparative Biology, DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Lallensack JN, Falkingham PL. 2022. A new method to calculate limb phase from trackways reveals gaits of sauropod dinosaurs Current Biology, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Falkingham PL, Maidment SCR, Lallensack JN, Martin JE, Suan G, Cherns L, Howells C, Barrett PM. 2021. Late Triassic dinosaur tracks from Penarth, south Wales Geological Magazine, :1-12 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Lallensack JN, Farlow JO, Falkingham PL. 2021. A new solution to an old riddle: elongate dinosaur tracks explained as deep penetration of the foot, not plantigrade locomotion Palaeontology, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Cieri RL, Turner ML, Carney RM, Falkingham PL, Kirk AM, Wang T, Jensen B, Novotny J, Tveite J, Gatesy SM, Laidlaw DH, Kaplan H, Moorman AFM, Howell M, Engel B, Cruz C, Smith A, Gerichs W, Lian Y, Schultz JT, Farmer CG. 2021. Virtual and augmented reality: New tools for visualizing, analyzing, and communicating complex morphology. Journal of Morphology, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Farlow JO, Falkingham PL, Therrien F. 2021. Pedal proportions of small and large hadrosaurs and other potentially bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs CRETACEOUS RESEARCH, 127 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Peri E, Falkingham PL, Collareta A, Bianucci G. 2021. Biting in the Miocene seas: estimation of the bite force of the macroraptorial sperm whale Zygophyseter varolai using finite element analysis Historical Biology: an international journal of paleobiology, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Hatala KG, Gatesy SM, Falkingham PL. 2021. Integration of biplanar X-ray, three-dimensional animation and particle simulation reveals details of human ‘track ontogeny’ Interface Focus, 11 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Mármol-Guijarro A, Nudds R, Folkow L, Sellers W, Falkingham P, Codd J. 2021. The Influence of snow properties on speed and gait choice in the Svalbard rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta hyperborea) Integrative Organismal Biology, 3 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Marek RD, Falkingham PL, Benson RBJ, Gardiner JD, Maddox TW, Bates KT. 2021. Evolutionary versatility of the avian neck Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Tanaka I, Markó A, Hyodo M, Strickson C, Falkingham PL. 2021. A re-analysis of Chibanian Pleistocene tracks from VÉRTESSZŐLŐS, Hungary, employing photogrammetry and 3D analysis Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae, 91 :75-83 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Falkingham PL, Rae R. 2021. 3D morphology of nematode encapsulation in snail shells, revealed by micro-CT imaging Scientific Reports, 11 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Milàn J, Falkingham PL, Mueller-Töwe IJ. 2020. Small ornithopod dinosaur tracks and crocodilian remains from the Middle Jurassic Bagå Formation, Bornholm, Denmark: Important additions to the rare Middle Jurassic vertebrate faunas of Northern Europe Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark, :245-253 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Gatesy SM, Falkingham PL. 2020. Hitchcock’s Leptodactyli, Penetrative Tracks, and Dinosaur Footprint Diversity Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Larkin NR, Duffin CJ, Dey S, Stukins S, Falkingham P. 2020. The first tetrapod track recorded from the Rhaetian in the British Isles Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Falkingham P, Turner M, Gatesy S. 2020. Constructing and testing hypotheses of dinosaur foot motions from fossil tracks using digitization and simulation Palaeontology, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Falkingham P, Gatesy S. 2020. Discussion: Defining the morphological quality of fossil footprints. Problems and principles of preservation in tetrapod ichnology with examples from the Palaeozoic to the present by Lorenzo Marchetti et al. Earth-Science Reviews, DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Tuner M, Falkingham PL, Gatesy S. 2020. It's in the loop: shared sub-surface foot kinematics in birds and other dinosaurs shed light on a new dimension of fossil track diversity Biology Letters, 16 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Farlow JO, Richards RL, Johnson BD, Falkingham PL. 2020. A set-up for rapid screen-washing unconsolidated sediments for salvage-collecting large vertebrate fossils (pipe creek sinkhole, Late Neogene, Grant County, Indiana, USA) Proceedings Of The Indiana Academy Of Science, 129 :88-96
Otero A, Moreno AP, Falkingham PL, Cassini G, Ruella A, Militello M, Toledo N. 2020. Three-dimensional image surface acquisition in vertebrate paleontology: A review of principal techniques Publicación Electrónica de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina, 20 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Farlow JO, Bakker RT, Dattilo BF, Deschner EE, Falkingham PL, Harter C, Solis R, Temple D, Ward W. 2019. Thunder lizard handstands: Manus-only sauropod trackways from the Glen Rose Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Kendall County, Texas) Ichnos, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Strickson EC, Hutchinson JR, Wilkinson DM, Falkingham PL. 2019. Can Skeletal Surface Area Predict in vivo Foot Surface Area? Journal of Anatomy, :72-84 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Troelsen P, Wilkinson D, Seddighi M, Allanson D, Falkingham PL. 2019. Functional morphology and hydrodynamics of plesiosaur necks: Does size matter? Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 39 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Crandell K, Howe R, Falkingham P. 2019. Repeated evolution of drag reduction at the air-water interface in diving kingfishers Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 16 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Novotny J, Tveite J, Turner M, Gatesy S, Drury F, Falkingham PL, Laidlaw D. 2019. Developing Virtual Reality Visualizations for Unsteady Flow Analysis of Dinosaur Track Formation using Scientific Sketching IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 25 :2145-2154 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Bates KT, Falkingham PL. 2018. The importance of muscle architecture in biomechanical reconstructions of extinct animals: a case study using Tyrannosaurus rex Journal of Anatomy, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Falkingham PL, Bates KT, Avanzini M, Bennett M, Bordy E, Breithaupt BH, Castanera D, Citton P, Díaz-Martinez I, Farlow JO, Fiorillo AR, Gatesy SM, Getty P, Hatala KG, Hornung JJ, Hyatt JA, Lallensack JN, Martin AJ, Marty D, Matthews NA, Meyer CA, Milán J, Minter NJ, Razzolini NL, Romilio A, Salisbury SW, Sciscio L, Tanaka I, Wiseman ALA, Xing LD, Belvedere M. 2018. A standard protocol for documenting modern and fossil ichnological data Palaeontology, 61 :469-480 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Gatesy SM, Falkingham PL. 2017. Neither bones nor feet: track morphological variation and “preservation quality” Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Lomax DR, Falkingham PL, Schweigert G, Jimenez AP. 2017. An 8.5 m long ammonite drag mark from the Upper Jurassic Solnhofen Lithographic Limestones, Germany PLOS ONE, 12 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Davies TG, Rahman IA, Lautenschlager S, Cunningham JA, Asher RJ, Barrett PM, Bates KT, Bengston S, Benson RBJ, Boyer DM, Braga J, Bright JA, Claessens LPAM, Cox PG, Dong XP, Evans AR, Falkingham PL, Friedman M, Garwood RJ, Goswami A, Hutchinson JR, Jeffrey NS, Johanson Z, Lebrun R, Martínez-Pérez C, Marugán-Lobón J, O'Higgins PM, Metscher B, Orliac M, Rowe T, Rucklin M, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Shubin NH, Smith SY, Starck JM, Stringer C, Summers AP, Sutton MD, Walsh SA, Weisbecker V, Witmer LM, Wroe S, Yin Z, Rayfield E, Donoghue PCJ. 2017. Open data and digital morphology Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 284 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Xing L, Lockley MG, Klein H, Falkingham PL, Kim JY, McRea RT, Zhang J, Persons IV WS, Wang T, Wang Z. 2016. First early Jurassic small ornithischian tracks from Yunnan Province, Southwestern China PALAIOS, 31 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Falkingham PL, Horner AM. 2016. Trackways Produced by Lungfish During Terrestrial Locomotion Scientific Reports, 6 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Klein H, Wizevich MC, Thuring B, Marty D, Thuring S, Falkingham PL, Meyer CA. 2016. Triassic chirotheriid footprints from the Swiss Alps: ichnotaxonomy and depositional environment (Cantons Wallis & Glarus) Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, 135 :295-314 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Bates KT, Mannion PD, Falkingham PL, Brusatte S, Hutchinson JR, Otero A, Sellers WI, Sullivan C, Stevens K, Allen V. 2016. Temporal and phylogenetic evolution of the sauropod dinosaur body plan Royal Society Open Science, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Xing L, Daqing L, Falkingham PL, Lockley M, Benton MJ, Klein H, Zhang J, Ran H, Persons IV WS, Dai H. 2016. Digit-only sauropod pes trackways from China – evidence of swimming or a preservational phenomenon? Scientific Reports, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Basu C, Falkingham PL, Hutchinson JR. 2016. The extinct, giant giraffid Sivatherium giganteum – skeletal reconstruction and body mass estimation Biology Letters, 12 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Rahman I, Zamora S, Falkingham PL, Phillips JC. 2015. Cambrian cinctan echinoderms shed light on feeding in the ancestral deuterostome Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Bates KT, Falkingham PL, Macaulay S, Brassey C, Maidment SCR. 2015. Downsizing a giant: Re-evaluating Dreadnoughtus body mass Biology Letters, 11 :1-6 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Falkingham PL, Gatesy SM. 2014. The birth of a dinosaur footprint: Subsurface 3D motion reconstruction and discrete element simulation reveal track ontogeny Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111 :18279-18284 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Bennett MR, Morse SA, Falkingham PL. 2014. Tracks made by swimming Hippopotami: An example from Koobi Fora (Turkana Basin, Kenya) Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 409 :9-23 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Maidment SCR, Bates KT, Falkingham PL, VanBuren C, Arbour V, Barrett PM. 2014. Locomotion in ornithischian dinosaurs: an assessment using three-dimensional computational modelling BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS, 89 :588-617 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Falkingham PL, Bates KT, Farlow JO. 2014. Historical photogrammetry: Bird's Paluxy River dinosaur chase sequence digitally reconstructed as it was prior to excavation 70 years ago. PLoS One, 9 :1-5 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Razzolini NL, Vila B, Castanera D, Falkingham PL, Barco JL, Canudo JI, Manning PL, Galobart A. 2014. Intra-trackway morphological variations due to substrate consistency: the El Frontal dinosaur tracksite (Lower Cretaceous, Spain). PLoS One, 9 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Falkingham PL. 2014. Interpreting ecology and behaviour from the vertebrate fossil track record JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY, 292 :222-228 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Falkingham PL, Hage J, Bäker M. 2014. Mitigating the Goldilocks effect: the effects of different substrate models on track formation potential Royal Society Open Science, 1 :2-9 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
White MA, Falkingham PL, Cook AG, Hocknull SA, Elliott DA. 2013. Morphological comparisons of metacarpal I for Australovenator wintonensis and Rapator ornitholestoides: implications for their taxonomic relationships ALCHERINGA, 37 :435-441 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Castanera D, Vila B, Razzolini NL, Falkingham PL, Canudo JI, Manning PL, Galobart A. 2013. Manus track preservation bias as a key factor for assessing trackmaker identity and quadrupedalism in basal ornithopods. PLoS One, 8 :1-13 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Bates KT, Savage R, Pataky TC, Morse SA, Webster E, Falkingham PL, Ren L, Qian Z, Collins D, Bennett MR, McClymont J, Crompton RH. 2013. Does footprint depth correlate with foot motion and pressure? JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY INTERFACE, 10 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Falkingham PL. 2013. Low cost 3D scanning using off-the-shelf video gaming peripherals Journal of Paleontological Techniques, 11 :1-9 Public Url
Bennett MR, Falkingham PL, Morse SA, Bates KT, Crompton RH. 2013. Preserving the Impossible: Conservation of Soft-Sediment Hominin Footprint Sites and Strategies for Three-Dimensional Digital Data Capture PLoS ONE, :e60755-e60755 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Castanera D, Vila B, Razzolini NL, Falkingham PL, Canudo JI, Manning PL, Galobart À. 2013. Correction: Manus Track Preservation Bias as a Key Factor for Assessing Trackmaker Identity and Quadrupedalism in Basal Ornithopods. PloS one, 8 DOI Publisher Url
Sellers WI, Hepworth-Bell J, Falkingham PL, Bates KT, Brassey CA, Egerton VM, Manning PL. 2012. Minimum convex hull mass estimations of complete mounted skeletons BIOLOGY LETTERS, 8 :842-845 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Bates KT, Falkingham PL. 2012. Estimating maximum bite performance in Tyrannosaurus rex using multi-body dynamics BIOLOGY LETTERS, 8 :660-664 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Falkingham PL, Bates KT, Mannion PD. 2012. Temporal and palaeoenvironmental distribution of manus- and pes-dominated sauropod trackways JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 169 :365-370 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Bates KT, Benson RBJ, Falkingham PL. 2012. A computational analysis of locomotor anatomy and body mass evolution in Allosauroidea (Dinosauria: Theropoda) PALEOBIOLOGY, 38 :486-507 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Falkingham PL. 2012. Acquisition of high resolution three-dimensional models using free, open-source, photogrammetric software PALAEONTOLOGIA ELECTRONICA, 15 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Falkingham PL, Bates KT, Margetts L, Manning PL. 2011. The 'Goldilocks' effect: preservation bias in vertebrate track assemblages JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY INTERFACE, 8 :1142-1154 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Farlow JO, O'Brien M, Kuban GJ, Datillo BF, Bates KT, Falkingham PL, Pinuela L, Rose A, Freels A, Kumagai C, Libben C, Smith J, Whitcraft J. 2011. Dinosaur tracksites of the Paluxy River Valley (Glen Rose Formation, Lower Cretaceous), Dinosaur Valley State Park, Sommervell County, Texas Proceedings of the V International Symposium about Dinosaur Palaeontology and their Environmen, :41-69
Falkingham PL, Bates KT, Margetts L, Manning PL. 2011. Simulating sauropod manus-only trackway formation using finite-element analysis BIOLOGY LETTERS, 7 :142-145 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Falkingham PL, Margetts L, Manning PL. 2010. FOSSIL VERTEBRATE TRACKS AS PALEOPENETROMETERS: CONFOUNDING EFFECTS OF FOOT MORPHOLOGY PALAIOS, 25 :356-360 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Bates KT, Falkingham PL, Rarity F, Hodgetts D, Purslow A, Manning PL. 2010. APPLICATION OF HIGH-RESOLUTION LASER SCANNING AND PHOTOGRAMMETRIC TECHNIQUES TO DATA ACQUISITION, ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION IN PALAEONTOLOGY Mills JP, Barber DM, Miller PE, Newton I. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ISPRS COMMISSION V MID-TERM SYMPOSIUM CLOSE RANGE IMAGE MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES, 38 :68-73 Author Url
Falkingham PL, Agenbroad LD, Thompson K, Manning PL. 2010. Bird Tracks at the Hot Springs Mammoth Site, South Dakota, USA ICHNOS-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PLANT AND ANIMAL TRACES, 17 :34-39 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Falkingham PL, Milán J, Manning PL. 2010. A crocodylian trace from the Lance Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Wyoming New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Bulletin, 51 :171-174
Manning PL, Margetts L, Johnson MR, Withers PJ, Sellers WI, Falkingham PL, Mummery PM, Barrett PM, Raymont DR. 2009. Biomechanics of Dromaeosaurid Dinosaur Claws: Application of X-Ray Microtomography, Nanoindentation, and Finite Element Analysis ANATOMICAL RECORD-ADVANCES IN INTEGRATIVE ANATOMY AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY, 292 :1397-1405 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Falkingham PL. 2009. Walking with dinosaurs Planet Earth, :12-13
Bates KT, Falkingham PL, Breithaupt BH, Hodgetts D, Sellers WI, Manning PL. 2009. HOW BIG WAS 'BIG AL'? QUANTIFYING THE EFFECT OF SOFT TISSUE AND OSTEOLOGICAL UNKNOWNS ON MASS PREDICTIONS FOR ALLOSAURUS (DINOSAURIA: THEROPODA) PALAEONTOLOGIA ELECTRONICA, 12 Author Url
Falkingham PL, Margetts L, Smith IM, Manning PL. 2009. Reinterpretation of palmate and semi-palmate (webbed) fossil tracks; insights from finite element modelling PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY, 271 :69-76 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Bates KT, Falkingham PL, Hodgetts D, Farlow JO, Breithaupt BH, O'Brien M, Matthews N, Sellers WI, Manning PL. 2009. Digital imaging and public engagement in palaeontology Geology Today, 25 :134-139 DOI Publisher Url
Manning PL, Ott C, Falkingham PL. 2008. A probable tyrannosaurid track from the Hell Creek Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Montana, United States PALAIOS, 23 :645-647 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Bates KT, Breithaupt BH, Falkingham PL, Matthews NA, Hodgetts D, Manning PL. 2008. Integrated LiDAR & photogrammetric documentation of the Red Gulch dinosaur tracksite (Wyoming , USA) Proceedings of teh 8th Conference on Fossil Resources, :101-103
Poster
Jackson N, Wakely D, Falkingham PL. 2021. 3D marker tracking with GoPros and XMALab: A low-cost 3D tracking set-up Society of Experimental Biology Annual Meeting Public Url
Conference publication
Hatala KG, Falkingham PL, Gatesy SM. 2021. A new ontogenetic framework for analyzing fossil hominin tracks AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 174 :45-45 Author Url
Hatala KG, Falkingham PL, Megherhi S, Perry DA, Cheleden S, Novotny J, Laidlaw DH, Gatesy SM. 2020. Merging biplanar X-ray, 3-D animation, particle simulation, and virtual reality to understand 3-D foot dynamics on deformable substrates AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 89th Annual Meeting of the American-Association-of-Physical-Anthropologists (AAPA) 171 :117-117 Author Url
Marek RD, Falkingham PL, Bates KT. 2019. The Surrogate Arm: Assessing Factors Influencing Vertebral Morphology in the Avian Cervical Spine JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY, 280 :S173-S174 Author Url
Falkingham PL, Turner M, Gatesy SM. 2019. Generating and Testing Hypotheses of Dinosaur Foot Motions Using 3D-Digitized Tracks and Large-Scale Granular Simulations JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY, 280 :S118-S118 Author Url
Turner ML, Novotny J, Falkingham PL, Laidlaw DH, Gatesy SM. 2019. Where Does Footprint Morphology Come from? Developing Virtual Reality Visualizations for Exploring Dinosaur Track Formation JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY, 280 :S70-S70 Author Url
Crandell KE, Howe R, Falkingham P. 2019. Using 3D-Printed Models to Explore the Functional Consequences of Avian Beak Morphology JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY, 280 :S56-S56 Author Url
Strickson EC, Wilkinson DM, Hutchinson JR, Falkingham PL. 2019. No Small Feet: Investigating Mass Distribution and Heteropody in the Past and Present JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY, 280 :S226-S226 Author Url
Crandell KE, Howe RO, Cannon C, Falkingham PL. 2019. A comparative analysis of the hydrodynamics of beak shape kingfishers INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY, Annual Meeting of the Society-for-Integrative-and-Comparative-Biology (SICB) 59 :E44-E44 Author Url
Glasgow S, Troelsen P, Falkingham PL, Marek RD. 2019. Stretching Evolution: Regionalisation and Neck Elongation in Plesiosaurs Integrative and Comparative Biology, Annual Meeting of the Society-for-Integrative-and-Comparative-Biology (SICB) 59 Author Url Public Url
Gatesy SM, Turner ML, Falkingham PL. 2018. CT Imaging of Dinosaur Footprints: Hidden Topography and the Origin of Track Diversity INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY, Annual Meeting of the Society-for-Integrative-and-Comparative-Biology (SICB) 58 :E72-E72 Author Url
Turner ML, Falkingham PL, Gatesy SM. 2018. Avian Subsurface Foot Kinematics on Deformable Substrates INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY, Annual Meeting of the Society-for-Integrative-and-Comparative-Biology (SICB) 58 :E437-E437 Author Url
Farlow JO, Robinson NJ, Kumagai CJ, Paladino FV, Falkingham PL, Elsey RM, Martin AJ. 2018. Trackways of the American Crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) in Northwestern Costa Rica: Implications for Crocodylian Ichnology Ichnos, 25 :30-65 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Falkingham PL, Gatesy SM. 2016. Using extant taxa to inform studies of fossil footprints
Farlow JO, Robinson NJ, Paladino FV, Falkingham PL, Martin AJ. 2016. Trackways of the American crocodile, northwestern Costa Rica: implications for crocodylian ichnology. 131st Annual Meeting, Indiana Academy of Science, Abstracts, 131st Annual Meeting, Indiana Academy of Science :57-57
Farlow JO, Bates KT, Bonem RM, Dattilo BF, Falkingham PL, Gildner R, Jacene J, Kuban GJ, Martin AJ, O'Brien M, Whitcraft J. 2015. DINOSAUR FOOTPRINTS FROM THE GLEN ROSE FORMATION (PALUXY RIVER, DINOSAUR VALLEY STATE PARK, SOMERVELL COUNTY, TEXAS) Noto C. Early- and Mid-Cretaceous Archosaur Localities of North-Central Texas, SVP 2015 Meeting Field Trip Guidebook, 75th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology :14-37 Publisher Url Public Url
Falkingham PL, Gatesy SM. 2015. The birth of a dinosaur track: sub-surface 3-D motion reconstruction and discrete element simulation reveal footprint ontogeny' INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY, Annual Meeting of the Society-for-Integrative-and-Comparative-Biology (SICB) 55 :E54-E54 Author Url
Falkingham PL, Gatesy SM. 2012. RECONSTRUCTING LIMB KINEMATICS OF SMALL BIPEDAL DINOSAURS TRAVERSING SEMI-FLUID SUBSTRATES JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY, 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society-of-Vertebrate-Paleontology 32 :92-92 Author Url
Falkingham P, Bates K, Mannion P. 2011. EVOLUTIONARY TRENDS IN SAUROPOD BODY PLAN EXPRESSED IN FOSSIL TRACKS AND TRACKWAYS JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY, 31 :107-107 Author Url
Falkingham P. 2009. DIVERSITY IN FOSSIL VERTEBRATE TRACK ASSEMBLAGES: PRESERVATIONAL BIAS DUE TO SEDIMENT CONSISTENCY AND ANIMAL MASS JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY, 29 :93A-93A Author Url
Falkingham P, Margetts L, Manning P. 2008. USING FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS TO AID INTERPRETATION OF DINOSAUR TRACKS JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY, 68th Annual Meeting of the Society-of-Vertebrate-Paleontology 28 :76A-76A Author Url
Falkingham P, Manning P, Margetts L. 2007. Finite element analysis of dinosaur tracks JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY, 27 :73A-73A Author Url
Farlow JO, Richards RL, Johnson BD, Falkingham PL. New fossil vertebrate specimens from the Pipe Creek Sinkhole (Grant County, Indiana) 130th Annual Meeting, Indiana Academy of Science, Program, 130th Annual Meeting, Indiana Academy of Science :38-38
Other
Bates KT, Falkingham PL. 2018. Estimating maximum bite performance in Tyrannosaurus rex using multi-body dynamics (vol 8, 20120056, 2012) BIOLOGY LETTERS, 14 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Falkingham P. Fossil Bird Track, Mammoth Site of Hot Springs DOI
Falkingham P, Milan J. Emu track and Undertracks in cement - photos + photogrammetric models. DOI
Chapters
Falkingham PL. 2016. Applying objective methods to subjective track outlines. Falkingham PL, Marty D, Richter A. Dinosaur Tracks: The Next Steps :72-80 Indiana University Press 978-0-253-02102-1
Falkingham PL, Marty D, Richter A. 2016. Introduction Falkingham PL, Marty D, Richter A. Dinosaur Tracks The Next Steps :2-11 Indiana University Press 9780253021021
Marty D, Falkingham PL, Richter A. 2016. Dinosaur Track Terminology: A Glossary of Terms Falkingham PL, Marty D, Richter A. Dinosaur Tracks The Next Steps :399-402 Indiana University Press 9780253021021
Milan J, Falkingham PL. 2016. Experimental and Comparative ichnology Falkingham PL, Marty D, Richter A. Dinosaur Tracks: The Next Steps :14-27 Indiana University Press 978-0-253-02102-1
Milàn J, Falkingham PL. 2016. Experimental and comparative ichnology Dinosaur Tracks: The Next Steps :15-27 9780253021021
Manning PL, Falkingham PL. 2011. Science communication with dinosaurs Handbook of Research on Computational Science and Engineering: Theory and Practice :587-610 9781613501160 DOI Publisher Url
Manning PL, Falkingham PL. 2011. Science Communication with Dinosaurs Leng J, Sharrock W. Handbook of Research on Computational Science and Engineering: Theory and Practice :587-611 9781613501160 DOI
Books (authored)
Falkingham PL, Marty D, Richter A. 2016. Dinosaur Tracks The Next Steps Falkingham PL, Marty D, Richter A. 9780253021021
Falkingham PL, Marty D, Richter A. 2016. Introduction :3-11 9780253021021
Software/Code
Budka M, Bakirov R, Deng S, Falkingham PL, Reynolds SC, Bennett MR. 2016. DigTrace Academic
Budka M, Bakirov R, Deng S, Falkingham PL, Reynolds S, Bennett M. 2016. DigTrace Pro
Thesis/Dissertation
Falkingham PL. 2010. Commputer simulation of dinosaur tracks Manning P, Margetts L.
Media
Falkingham P, Xing L. Xing et al 2016 Anomoepus.zip DOI
Dataset
Hatala K, Gatesy S, Falkingham P. Integration of biplanar X-ray, 3-D animation, and particle simulation reveals details of human ‘track ontogeny’ - Data DOI
Farlow JO, Falkingham P. Fossil Screen-Wash set-up, Pipe Creek Sinkhole DOI
Farlow JO, Falkingham P. Canid Jaw - Pipecreek Sinkhole DOI
Falkingham P. Penarth tracks dataset DOI
Falkingham P, Horner AM. Lungfish terrestrial traces DOI
Highlighted activities
Research Grants Awarded:
UKRI, Mud to Muscles: Dinosaur to bird evolution from fossil footprints, Grant value (£): £2.2 million, Duration of research project: 5 years. 2023
Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, Simulating footprint formation, from Humans to Dinosaurs, Grant value (£): ~200,000 (15,000,000 CPU hours), Duration of research project: 12 months. 2022
Leverhulme, Bones in motion: A new integrated experimental-computational approach to understanding the evolution of human locomotion, Karl Bates, Kristian D'Aout, Grant value (£): 249045, Duration of research project: 3 years. 2017
NERC, Integrated software solution for the 3-dimensional capture and analysis of footwear evidence, Bennett; Budka; Gabrys; Osselton, Grant value (£): 100k, Duration of research project: 12 months. 2014
NSF, Birth of a dinosaur track: Formation dynamics and the origin of footprint diversity., Gatesy, S.M. (PI), Grant value (£): $315,698, Duration of research project: 3 years. 2014
NSF, X-rays, 3D animation and human locomotion, Kevin Hatala, Stephen Gatesy, Grant value (£): $340,052.
Professional activities
Research Grants Awarded:
UKRI, Mud to Muscles: Dinosaur to bird evolution from fossil footprints, Grant value (£): £2.2 million, Duration of research project: 5 years. 2023
Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, Simulating footprint formation, from Humans to Dinosaurs, Grant value (£): ~200,000 (15,000,000 CPU hours), Duration of research project: 12 months. 2022
Palaeontological Association, Regionalization of cervical vertebrae in plesiosaurs, Grant value (£): £2192, Duration of research project: 8 weeks. 2018
Leverhulme, Bones in motion: A new integrated experimental-computational approach to understanding the evolution of human locomotion, Karl Bates, Kristian D'Aout, Grant value (£): 249045, Duration of research project: 3 years. 2017
EPSRC/NERC, Extrapolating ground reaction force from fossil dinosaur footprints, Grant value (£): 63,334.90, Duration of research project: 24 months. 2015
Company of Biologists, Digitizing archosaur tracks and traces, Grant value (£): 500. 2015
NERC, Integrated software solution for the 3-dimensional capture and analysis of footwear evidence, Bennett; Budka; Gabrys; Osselton, Grant value (£): 100k, Duration of research project: 12 months. 2014
NSF, Birth of a dinosaur track: Formation dynamics and the origin of footprint diversity., Gatesy, S.M. (PI), Grant value (£): $315,698, Duration of research project: 3 years. 2014
XSEDE, USING COMPUTER SIMULATION TO STUDY DINOSAUR BIOMECHANICS FROM FOSSIL FOOTPRINTS (TG-EAR140012), S.M. Gatesy, Grant value (£): 365768 SUs, Duration of research project: 18 Months. 2014
NSF, X-rays, 3D animation and human locomotion, Kevin Hatala, Stephen Gatesy, Grant value (£): $340,052.
Media Coverage:
Featured on science show 'Quirks and Quarks' 2022
www.cbc.ca
www.cbc.ca
News coverage of Current Biology paper - Sauropod gaits 2022
institutions.newscientist.com
www.dailymail.co.uk
www.science.org
Dinosaur tracks found in south Wales 2022
www.thenational.wales
www.itv.com
www.mirror.co.uk
Daily Mail article on Lungfish traces
Blog post for the Gaurdian newspaper about the outreach site Palaeontology[Online]
Coverage on Dinosaur track CT work
Coverage of the announcement that the NERC grant (PI Bennett, Bournemouth University) has been awarded funding.
www.forensicmag.com
www1.bournemouth.ac.uk
Media coverage associate with the paper 'Historical Photogrammtery' publishing in PLOS ONE.
phenomena.nationalgeographic.com
www.bbc.co.uk
www.voanews.com
Media coverage for Bates et al 2016
www.engadget.com
phys.org
www.sciencedaily.com
Media coverage for paper 'Downsizing a Giant'
www.dailymail.co.uk
www.washingtonpost.com
news.nationalgeographic.com
Media Coverage for Sivatherium reconstruction
www.dailymail.co.uk
www.bbc.co.uk
www.nature.com
Media coverage of Digit-only sauropod tracks from China
www.bristol.ac.uk
www.csmonitor.com
www.asianscientist.com
Media coverage of PhD student (Pernille Troelsen) work on Plesiosaur necks.
knowridge.com
www.sciencedaily.com
Media coverage on the 2014 paper "The Birth of a Dinosaur Track" published in PNAS
sciencenode.org
www.bbc.co.uk
www.foxnews.com
News coverage on PLOS ONE ammonite paper
www.livescience.com
www.bbc.co.uk
Award:
Excellence in Digital Education, Teaching and Learning Academy, LJMU. 2022
Excellence in Digital Education Award Commendation. 2021
General Biomechanics session Talk Prize, Society for Experimental Biology. 2013
Conference presentation:
3D marker tracking with GoPros and XMALab: A low-cost 3D tracking set-up, Society of Experimental Biology, Poster presentation. 2021
WHY DID SOME QUADRUPEDAL DINOSAURS HAVE SMALL FRONT FEET?, SVP, Brisbane, Australia, Oral presentation. 2019
CT IMAGING OF DINOSAUR FOOTPRINTS: HIDDEN TOPOGRAPHY AND THE ORIGIN OF PENETRATIVE TRACK DIVERSITY, SVP, Brisbane, Australia, Oral presentation. 2019
Generating and testing hypothesis of dinosaur foot motions using 3d-digitized tracks and large-scale granular simulations., ICVM, Prague, Czech Republic, Oral presentation. 2019
No small feet: Investigating mass distribution and heteropody in the past and present., ICVM, Prague, Czech Republic., Oral presentation. 2019
Repeated evolution of drag reduction at the air-water interface in diving kingfishers, ICVM, Prague, Czech Republic., Oral presentation. 2019
The Surrogate Arm: Assessing factors influencing vertebral morphology in the avian cervical Spine., ICVM, Prague, Czech Republic, Oral presentation. 2019
Where does footprint morphology come from? Developing virtual reality visualizations for exploring dinosaur track formation, ICVM, Prague, Czech Republic., Oral presentation. 2019
A comparative analysis of the hydrodynamics of beak shape kingfishers, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting, Tampa, Florida, USA, Oral presentation. 2019
Stretching Evolution: Regionalisation and Neck Elongation in Plesiosaurs, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual meeting, Tampa, Florida, USA, Poster presentation. 2019
Developing Virtual Reality Visualizations of Dinosaur Track Creation with Scientific Skethcing, Vast Infovis SciVis (VIS) 2018, Berlin, Germany, Poster presentation. 2018
Where does footprint morphology come from? Integrating 3D methods for exploring dinosaur track formation, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, Oral presentation. 2018
An everyday tool: how the avian neck has adapted to (almost) every situation., Symposium of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy, Manchester, UK, Oral presentation. 2018
Functional morphology and hydrodynamics of plesiosaur necks: Does size matter?, Symposium of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy, Manchester, UK, Oral presentation. 2018
The implications of underfoot pressures and mass distribution for extreme heteropody, Society of Experimental Biology, Florence, Italy, Poster presentation. 2018
The surrogate arm: Analysing the role of regionalisation in the variation of the avian neck, Society of Exoerimental Biology, Florence, Italy, Oral presentation. 2018
Avian Subsurface Foot Kinematics on Deformable Substrates, Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology, San Francisco, CA, USA, Poster presentation. 2018
CT Imaging of Dinosaur Footprints: Hidden Topography and the Origin of Track Diversity, Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology, San Franscisco, CA, USA, Oral presentation. 2018
REGIONALISATION OF THE AVIAN CERVICAL COLUMN: A LINK BETWEEN MORPHOLOGY AND ECOLOGY, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Calgary, Canada, Poster presentation. 2017
GRABBING EVOLUTION BY THE THROAT: FUNCTIONAL REGIONALISATION OF THE AVIAN CERVICAL COLUMN, Symposium on Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy, Birmingham, Poster presentation. 2017
PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON BIOMECHANICAL RECONSTRUCTIONS OF EXTINCT ANIMALS: A CASE STUDY USING TYRANNOSAURUS REX, Symposium on Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy, Birmingham, Oral presentation. 2017
RANGE OF MOTION AND HYDRODYNAMIC IMPLICATIONS OF THE LONG- NECK IN PLESIOSAURS, Symposium on Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy, Birmingham, Oral presentation. 2017
A re-analysis of the middle Pleistocene hominin-like footprints from Vértesszőlős, Hungary, British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology, Liverpool, Poster presentation. 2017
A RE-ANALYSIS OF ~350 KA HOMININ-LIKE FOOTPRINTS FROM VÉRTESSZOLOS, HUNGARY, EMPLOYING PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND 3D ANALYSIS., Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Calgary, Poster presentation. 2017
Can skeletal surface area predict in vivo foot surface area, Society of Experimental Biology, Sweden, Poster presentation. 2017
Grabbing evolution by the throat: Functional regionalisation of the avian cervical column, Society of Experimental Biology, Sweden, Poster presentation. 2017
Hydrodynamic implications of the long neck in plesiosaurs using computational fluid dynamics, Society of Experimental Biology, Gotenburg, Sweden, Poster presentation. 2017
Reconstructing moving morphology using RaspberryPi (PiROMM): Range of motion in ostrich cervical vertebrae at progressive stages of dissection, Society of Experimental Biology, Gotenburg, Sweden, Poster presentation. 2017
Foot Morphology or exit feature: A CT perspective on Hitchcock's Dinosaur Tracks, Symposium of Vertebrate Paleontology, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, Poster presentation. 2016
Footprints are neither bones nor feet: Problems with track "preservation" and the mold-based paradigm, Symposium of Vertebrate Paleontology, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, Poster presentation. 2016
The morphology of motion in sub-surface foot trajectories and fossil dinosaur tracks, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, Oral presentation. 2016
Trackways of the American Crocodile (Crocodylus Acutus), northwest Costa Rica: Implications for archosaurian ichnology, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, Poster presentation. 2016
Mobility and hydrodynamic implications for the long neck in plesiosaurs, Symposium of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy, Liverpool, Poster presentation. 2016
Making footprints without feet: Modern terrestrial lungfish locomotion creates traces similar to those of early tetrapods., Society of Experimental Biology (SEB), Brighton, UK, Oral presentation. 2016
One Foot, Many Footprints: the Origin of Track Morphological Diversity, International Conference on Vertebrate Morphology (ICVM), Washington DC, USA, Poster presentation. 2016
The morphology of Motion: Sub-surface foot trajectories and fossil tracks, International Congress on Vertebrate Morphology (ICVM), Washington DC, USA, Poster presentation. 2016
Using extant taxa to inform studies of fossil footprints, European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria, Oral presentation. 2016
Using LIGGGHTS to investigate dinosaur footprint formation, 1st CF-DEM User Meeting, Linz, Austria, Oral presentation. 2016
Difficulties in estimating mass from fossil footprints, SVPCA, Southampton, Oral presentation. 2015
Estimating body mass of the extinct giraffid Sivatherium giganteum, using a skeletal reconstruction and the minimum convex hull method, SVPCA, Southampton, Poster presentation. 2015
Public engagement:
Earth Sciences department, Cambridge University, Talk for Sedgewick Society, University of Cambridge, Talk, Interest/students, 100, Invited speaker. 2019
Bangor University, Talk for Bangor Biological Society, Talk, Undergraduate/interested public, 70, Invited speaker, https://www.facebook.com/events/719496735076323. 2018
Birkenhead Academy High School, Talk at Birkenhead Academy, Public lecture, 16-19 + parents, ~40, Invited speaker. 2018
https://theconversation.com/footprint-fossils-suggest-lizards-have-been-running-on-two-feet-for-110m-years-91865, Article for the Conversation: Footprint fossils suggest lizards have been running on two feet for 110m years, Online article, General public, 1919, Author. 2018
https://theconversation.com/walking-fish-help-scientists-to-understand-how-we-left-the-ocean-91411, Article for The Conversation: ‘Walking’ fish help scientists to understand how we left the ocean, Article, Wider Public, 6467, Writer. 2018
Bangor University, Talk for Bangor University Biology Socity, Talk, Student society, 50+, Invited speaker. 2018
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswvxr, BBC World Service Radio Programme - Crowd Science, Radio/New media, Global, up to 46 million (average listeners for BBC world Service), Expert, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswvxr. 2018
https://pfalkingham.wordpress.com, Personal Website/Blog 2018, Blog/Website, General; technical; specialist, 129,892 views/46,420 unique visitors to 15/10/18, Author. 2018
https://pfalkingham.wordpress.com/, Personal Website/Blog 2017, Website/Blog, General/General science, 69,912 views / 26,265 unique visitors, Writer/Author, https://pfalkingham.wordpress.com/. 2017
Online, Palaeocast interview, Podcast, general public, >5000, Interviewee, Palaeocast is a monthly podcast series, http://www.palaeocast.com/episode-44-trackway-modelling/. 2015
Online, Palaeontology[Online], Online learning resource, General Public, > 4000 unique visitors per month, Editor/Contributor, http://www.palaeontologyonline.com/. 2011
Online, AskABiologist Specialist, Online public outreach forum, general public/you, >10,000, Specialist, http://www.askabiologist.org.uk/. 2010
Conference organisation:
Symposium of Palaeontological Preparation and Conservation, Organiser/Host, http://svpca.org/. 2016
Symposium of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy, Host/Organiser. 2016
Progressive Palaeontology, http://www.palass.org/modules.php?name=propal&page=46. 2008
Other invited event:
European Geosciences Union Annual Meeting, Vienna, Austria, Invited speaker. 2016
Membership of professional bodies:
Member, European Geosciences Union. 2016
Member, Ichnological Association.
Member, Palaeontological Association.
Member, Society of Experimental Biology.
Member, Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology.
Member, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.
Teaching qualification:
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. 2015
Fellowships:
Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship, Royal Veterinary College, London. 2012
Editorial boards:
Journal of Paleontological Techniques, Scientific Editor, http://jpaleontologicaltechniques.org/. 2012
Palaeontology[Online], Commissioning Editor, http://www.palaeontologyonline.com/. 2011
External collaboration:
Brown University, Stephen Gatesy.
Liverpool University, Karl Bates.
Royal Veterinary College, John Hutchinson.