Bec Crew is an award-winning science communicator with a fascination for odd animal behaviours, unique adaptations, new species and the researchers that discover them. Her stories celebrate how strange yet relatable so many of the creatures living among us can be. Based in Sydney, Australia, Bec is a Senior Editor at Nature Index, a publication of Nature that follows trends in scientific research. She is the former Editor-in-Chief at ScienceAlert, and was Editorial Director at STEM Matters and digital editor of COSMOS. In addition to her Creatura blog at Australian Geographic, she has written weekly columns for Scientific American. Her first book, Zombie Tits, Astronaut Fish and Other Weird Animals, was published by NewSouth Press. Bec studied classical archaeology and journalism at the University of Sydney.
