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John Pickrell is an award-winning freelance journalist, author of Flying Dinosaurs and Weird Dinosaurs, and a former editor of Australian Geographic magazine. He has worked in London, Washington DC and Sydney for publications including New Scientist, Science, Science News and Cosmos. He has also written for Nature, National Geographic, Scientific American, Focus, BBC Future, The Guardian and the ABC. John studied biology at Imperial College in the UK and has an MSc in taxonomy and biodiversity from the Natural History Museum, London. Follow him @john_pickrell

Sarah Lazarus is a regular contributor to CNN and the South China Morning Post, and has also written for the Financial Times, Nikkei Asian Review, The Guardian, National Geographic and the websites of London’s Natural History Museum and Science Museum. She attended University College London and Cambridge University, and is the author of Troubled Waters: The Changing Fortunes of Whales and Dolphins. Follow her @sarah_skywriter

Sarah runs Café Scientifique Hong Kong where “for the price of a cup of coffee or a glass of wine, members of the public can come to explore the latest ideas in science and technology with top scientists from Hong Kong and around the world.” Follow @CafeScientifiqueHongKong