Trevor Negus Books in Order

Tina Negus is a British zoologist, painter and poet who is credited as the original discoverer of Charnia, the first known Precambrian fossil. A fossil enthusiast since childhood, she found the first specimen of frond-like fossil at Charnwood Forest in Leicestershire during a summer vacation in 1956. She studied zoology, botany and geography at the University of Reading. She took up zoology for her postgraduate degree and her dissertation research on mussel diversity and abundance, published in the Journal of Animal Ecology in 1966, became a fundamental source of information on the degree of pollution in the River Thames. In recognition of her pioneering work, the University of Reading commissioned the Tina Negus Prize to graduate students of biology from 2019.