Richard Sabin (0000-0003-0699-7596)

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Curator/Senior Curator, Mammal Group, Department of Life Sciences/Zoology, the Natural History Museum, London UK, 1992-2012. Principal Curator since 2013. Main taxonomic area of expertise - Cetacea. Responsible for curation and development of the NHM Cetacea research collection.

Advisor and contributing author to United Kingdom Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme (UKCSIP) annual reports 2000 - present; NHM UK Strandings co-ordinator 2000-2006.

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Natural History Museum: London, GB

1992-09-01 to present | Principal Curator, Mammals (Science)

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Richard Sabin

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0699-7596

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Natural History Museum: London, GB

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Society for Marine Mammalogy: Lawrence, Kansas, US

Marine Biological Association: Plymouth, GB

Haslemere Educational Museum: Haslemere, Surrey, GB

EU-TWIX Trade in Wildlife Information Exchange: Brussels, BE

British Marine Aggregates Producers Association: London, GB

Works (45)

Ontogenetic changes in shape and growth rate during postnatal development in false killer whales (Pseudorca crassidens) vertebral column

Marine mammals as indicators of Anthropocene Ocean Health

Population structure of <i>Dugong dugon</i> across the Indo-Pacific revealed by historical mitogenomes

Stable isotopic composition of Antarctic and Patagonian marine mammals collected before and during industrial-scale whaling: assessing the baseline for long-term changes in the marine ecosystem

Range‐wide phylogeographic structure of the endangered Irrawaddy dolphin (<i>Orcaella brevirostris</i>) using expanded sampling from contemporary and historical specimens

Skull morphology of bottlenose dolphins worldwide and patterns of adaptation between coastal and offshore environments

Genetic and morphological data suggest a southeast Australian type locality for <i>Tursiops cymodoce</i> (Gray, 1846)

Stable isotopes of northern bottlenose whales in the eastern North Atlantic

Historical Mitogenomic Diversity and Population Structuring of Southern Hemisphere Fin Whales

Ecomorphology of toothed whales (Cetacea, Odontoceti) as revealed by 3D skull geometry

Range-wide variation in grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) skull morphology

Skull ecomorphological variation of narwhals (Monodon monoceros, Linnaeus 1758) and belugas (Delphinapterus leucas, Pallas 1776) reveals phenotype of their hybrids

Curating Ocean Ecology at the Natural History Museum: Miranda Lowe and Richard Sabin in conversation with Pandora Syperek and Sarah Wade

Skull morphological variation in a British stranded population of false killer whale (<i>Pseudorca crassidens</i>): a three-dimensional geometric morphometric approach

Mitogenomes of historical type specimens unravel the taxonomy of sportive lemurs (&lt;i&gt;Lepilemur&lt;/i&gt; spp.) in Northwest Madagascar

Stable Isotope Analysis of Specimens of Opportunity Reveals Ocean-Scale Site Fidelity in an Elusive Whale Species

A lipid normalization model for the analysis of stable isotopes in baleen whale earplugs

European Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises: Marine Mammal Conservation in PracticePeter G. H.EvansAcademic Press, London, UK, 2020. 322 pp. including contents, list of contributors, foreword, preface, acknowledgments, color plates, and index. ISBN: 978‐0‐12‐819053‐1. US$74.96 (paper)

New mitogenomic lineages in <i>Papio</i> baboons and their phylogeographic implications

Evidence of multi-decadal behavior and ecosystem-level changes revealed by reconstructed lifetime stable isotope profiles of baleen whale earplugs

Eighty years of chemical exposure profiles of persistent organic pollutants reconstructed through baleen whale earplugs

What can cetacean stranding records tell us? A study of UK and Irish cetacean diversity over the past 100 years

Combining simulation modeling and stable isotope analyses to reconstruct the last known movements of one of Nature’s giants

Hope: the story of the blue whale

Ancient pigs reveal a near-complete genomic turnover following their introduction to Europe

Cranial Ecomorphology of Odontocetes: a 3D-Evolutionary Approach.

Baleen whale cortisol levels reveal a physiological response to 20th century whaling

Taxonomic status of a “finner whale” (<i>Balaenoptera swinhoei</i> Gray, 1865) from southern Taiwan

Vertebral column deformities in white-beaked dolphins from the eastern North Atlantic

Revealing the maternal demographic history of Panthera leo using ancient DNA and a spatially explicit genealogical analysis

A Swedish subfossil find of a bowhead whale from the late Pleistocene: shore displacement, paleoecology in south-west Sweden and the identity of the Swedenborg whale (<i>Balaena swedenborgii</i>Liljeborg, 1867)

Next-Generation Museomics Disentangles One of the Largest Primate Radiations

Stable isotope analysis of baleen reveals resource partitioning among sympatric rorquals and population structure in fin whales

The Thames Whale: The difficult birth of a celebrity specimen

Ancient DNA from Nubian and Somali wild ass provides insights into donkey ancestry and domestication

Detection and enumeration of potentially zoonotic bacteria on a cetacean specimen during maceration.

Ancient DNA analysis indicates the first English lions originated from North Africa

Seasonal distribution of white-beaked dolphins (<i>Lagenorhynchus albirostris</i>) in UK waters with new information on diet and habitat use

Neanderthal exploitation of marine mammals in Gibraltar

What colour was Attila the Hun’s horse?: genetic signatures of phenotypic traits in archaeological materials

Medieval big cat remains from the Royal Menagerie at the Tower of London

Cetaceans Strandings Investigation and Co-ordination in the UK - Report to Defra for the period 1st January 2000 - 31st December 2004 (No. ECM 516T/05).

The Godrevy dog; early canine or lost pet?

Twelfth-Century Porpoise Remains from Dover and Canterbury

Museums and their Websites: An Examination and Assessment of How Museums are Coping with the Challenge of the World Wide Web

Mitogenomes of historical type specimens unravel the taxonomy of sportive lemurs (<i>Lepilemur</i> spp.) in Northwest Madagascar