Tyler, Mike

Mike Tyler is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was a winner of the prestigious Ig Nobel prize from Harvard University in 2005. He has published 23 books and more than 350 scientific papers. Among his many contributions to herpetology he has described 65 new frog species or genera, and reported the first fossil frog from Australia. He is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at The University of Adelaide, Honorary Associate at the South Australian Museum and Editor-in-Chief of the international journal "Applied Herpetology."