David J. Ward (born 10 October 1948, in

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) is a British

palaeontologist Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossi ...

. He worked for 14 years as a veterinary surgeon while being an amateur palaeontologist and taking part in several expeditions to

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. In 1988 he retired from medicine to devote himself completely to palaeontology.Cyril Walker">From the synopsis of the book, Cyril Walker
, David Ward '' Fossils : Smithsonian Handbook'', (2002, paperback, revisited), (1992, 1st edition). He travelled extensively in Europe, Africa, Australia, and the Americas, as well as to Uzbekistan, Russia and Kazakhstan. He published over 50 scientific articles and co-authored a bestselling book, ''Fossils (Smithsonian Handbook series)''. He was the 2007 Skinner Award recipient.

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