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Victoria Herridge

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Victoria Louise "Tori" Herridge, born 1980, is a British palaeontologist who currently serves as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield[1] and one of the founders of TrowelBlazers. She is a founding editor-in-chief at the open access journal Open Quaternary.[2] She has written about evolution of island mammals, the ethics of cloning mammoths, and the importance of studying the history of women in science.[3][4][5][6]

Herridge graduated with a first class degree in biology from University College London in 2002. After a master's degree at Imperial College London, she returned to University College London for a doctorate degree.[citation needed] She co-wrote Who Do You Think You Really Are? for the Natural History Museum (where Herridge formerly worked as a researcher[7]), which was a Premier Award Winner in 2011.[citation needed] Herridge has presented Channel 4 documentaries and series such as the autopsy of the Maly Lyakhovsky Mammoth (aka "Buttercup"), Walking Through Time, Britain at Low Tide and Bone Detectives: Britain's Buried Secrets.[8][9][10][11]

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  1. ^ "Herridge, Victoria, Dr". www.sheffield.ac.uk. 11 April 2025. Retrieved 28 May 2025.
  2. ^ "Editorial Team". Open Quaternary. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
  3. ^ Herridge, Victoria; Lister, A.M. (2012). "Extreme insular dwarfism evolved in a mammoth". Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 279 (1741): 3193–3200. doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.0671. PMC 3385739. PMID 22572206.
  4. ^ "Dwarfism in Animals on Islands". The Geological Society. 11 September 2013. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
  5. ^ Herridge, Tori (18 November 2014). "Mammoths are a huge part of my life. But cloning them is wrong". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
  6. ^ Hassett, Brenna; Birch, Suzanne Pilaar; Sykes, Becky Wragg; Herridge, Victoria (8 March 2017). "The history of women in science shows us the fight is worth it". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
  7. ^ "First ever DNA recovered from extinct miniature elephants of Sicily | Natural History Museum". www.nhm.ac.uk. Retrieved 28 May 2025.
  8. ^ "Woolly Mammoth: the Autopsy". Channel 4. 23 November 2014. Archived from the original on 4 December 2017. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
  9. ^ "Britain at Low Tide". Channel 4. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
  10. ^ "Channel 4 announces two new commissions featuring Dr Tori Herridge". Channel 4. 15 June 2016. Archived from the original on 27 September 2016. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
  11. ^ "Bone Detectives: Britain's Buried Secrets". Channel 4. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
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