Dino J. Martins author biography, plus links to books by Dino J. Martins.

Dino J. Martins

Dino J. Martins is an award-winning Kenyan artist, naturalist, and writer. An entomologist and evolutionary biologist, he is also a professor at Stony Brook University. He has served as the Director of the Turkana Basin Institute in Kenya, founded by Dr. Richard Leakey, and previously as the Director of the Mpala Research Centre. He holds a PhD in organismic and evolutionary biology from Harvard University. Martins has authored a number of natural history books, several children's books, and more than a hundred natural history and scientific articles. His research and writing have been featured in Smithsonian magazine, The Guardian, TED, the BBC, Granta, and National Geographic. He lives on Long Island and in Malindi, Kenya.

This biography was last updated on 07/07/2026.

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