{"id":49,"count":1,"description":"<div style=\"float: right;\"><img src=\"http:\/\/34.32.27.218\/wp-content\/uploads\/ben-kear.png\" style=\"border:1px solid #000000;margin-left:5px;margin-bottom:5px;\" title=\"Benjamini P. Kear\" \/><\/div>\r\nBen is an Australian-born palaeontologist based at Uppsala University in Sweden. He has spent the past 15 years working on fossil marine reptiles including elasmosaurs, but also publishes widely on dinosaurs, pterosaurs, bony fishes and even the DNA-based evolution of Australasian marsupials. Ben\u2019s field explorations have covered Australia, the Middle East, North America and Europe (including the Arctic), and resulted in more than 80 academic papers as well as three books (one under contact) on fossil marine reptiles and related palaeontological topics. \r\n\r\n<h2>Contact Details<\/h2>\r\nBenjamin Kear, Palaeobiology Programme, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Villav\u00e4gen 16, SE-752 36 Uppsala, Sweden","link":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/?tag=benjamin-p-kear","name":"Benjamin P. Kear","slug":"benjamin-p-kear","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/tags\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts&tags=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}