About Shaena:
Shaena Montanari was the 2017 AGU-sponsored AAAS Mass Media Fellow. She spent her summer as a science journalist at National Geographic. She was previously a freelance science writer and contributor at Forbes in natural history and paleontology. She recently wrapped up an international fellowship sponsored by the Royal Society at University of Edinburgh in the UK, and before that, was a Columbia Science Fellow at Columbia University, teaching first year undergraduates science topics ranging from black holes to dinosaurs. Her dissertation was on the paleoecology of dinosaurs and mammals, which lead her to field work in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert and the outback of Australia.
Read some of Shaena’s stories from his National Geographic fellowship:
- Rare Otter Fossil Found in the Mexican Desert
- Praying Mantis Devours Hummingbird in Shocking Photo
- How 2 Million Pounds of Rotting Flesh Helps the Serengeti
- Watch Elephants Rescue Their Baby From a Pool
- Endangered Zebra Saved After Severe Lion Attack
- Ice Age Hyenas Left Clues About These Ancient Human Sites
- Hints of Skull Cult Found at World’s Oldest Temple
- In a First, Bird Uses Tools to Make Sweet Music
- See a Caterpillar Transform Into a Butterfly Up Close
- Rare Video Shows Mysterious, Worm-Like Legless Lizard
- Underwater ‘Spider’ Breathes Through Its Legs
- Inside an Elaborate Circumcision Ceremony
- Why Manta Rays Swim in Mesmerizing Circles
- This Man Claims He Is Jesus Christ Reincarnated
- We Knew Ravens Are Smart. But Not This Smart
- Actually, You Could Have Outrun a T. rex
- Elephant Seals Recognize Their Rivals’ Voices—Hear Their Calls
- Rare Views of the Moon, as Seen by Apollo Astronauts
- Watch: Divers Stumble Across a Super-Long Sea Cucumber
- Conjoined Bat Twins Found in Brazilian Forest
- Plastic Garbage Patch Bigger Than Mexico Found in Pacific
- Take a Look at These Amazing Airborne Animals
- Unexplored African Lakes Reveal Hidden World
- Watch: Vulture Gang Steals Cheetah’s Kill
- Watch Two Snakes Try to Swallow the Same Bird
- New Dinosaur Species Was Largest Animal Ever to Walk the Earth
- See Inside These Bizarre War Museums
- See How Sloths (Slowly) Navigate the World
- Rare Fossils Reveal New Species of Ancient Gliding Mammals
- Breathtaking ‘Sky Islands’ Showcase Evolution in Action
- Two Massive ‘Sea Serpent’ Oarfish Wash Up on Beaches
- Nighttime Pictures Reveal Antarctica’s Cracking Ice Shelves
- Watch a Wildcat Attack a Parrot in Rare Video
- How to Watch the Total Solar Eclipse From Anywhere
- Vintage Photos Show the Beauty of Brides Around the World
- Bald Eagle Attacks a Swimming Deer
- Giraffe Tosses Dead Wildebeest Around in Bizarre Pictures
- Ancient Giant Sloth Fossil Found in Underwater Cave