Mike Archer (born 1945, Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian paleontologist specialising in Australian vertebrates. He was Director of the Australian Museum 1999-2004^[1] and is currently Dean of Science at the University of New South Wales.^[2]

He was born in Sydney but raised in the United States and studied at the Princeton University. From 1972 to 1978, he was the Curator of Mammals at the Queensland Museum.^[3] Since 1983, he is involved with the exploration of the Riversleigh fossil site in Queensland.^[4]

He is opposed to Creationism and finds himself regularly attacked for his views by Creationists.^[5]

During his time as Director of the Australian Museum, he was the initiator of attempts to clone the Thylacinus cynocephalus, the Tasmanian Tiger, an animal extinct since 1936.^[6][7]

He is married to the paleontologist Suzanne Hand, with whom he has two daughters.

[edit] Publications

• Michael Archer, Suzanne J. Hand, and Henk Godthelp, Australia's Lost World: Prehistoric Animals of Riversleigh, Indiana University Press, 2001

[edit] References

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