About the site
Free comics and whatnot!
Please don’t use or redistribute any art without permission and/or reference to the creator, thank you!
About the creator
Bitten Bolvig Hansen: geologist, palaeontologist, researcher, communicator of science, illustrator, and writer.
Creative life
2011–2014: Member of the Danish underground comic book publisher Ondskabens Flydende Vatikan (OFV).
2014–ongoing: This website!
2018: Illustrator on geology schoolbook for the Ministry of Mineral Resources, Government of Greenland.
Academic life
2011: BSc in geology-geoscience, University of Copenhagen
2014: MSc in geology-geoscience, University of Copenhagen
2016–2020: Researcher in palaeontology, Natural history Museum, University of Oslo and Palaeontological Museum, University of Zurich
Scientific publications
Hansen, B.B., Cuny, G., Rasmussen, B.W., Shimada, K., Jacobs, P. & Heilmann-Clausen, C. 2013: Associated skeletal
and dental remains of a fossil odontaspidid shark (Elasmobranchii: Lamniformes) from the Middle Eocene
Lillebælt Clay Formation in Denmark. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark, Vol. 61, 37–46. [LINK]
Hansen, B.B., Milàn, J., Clemmensen, L.B., Adolfssen, J.S., Estrup, E.J., Klein, N., Mateus, O. & Wings, O. 2015: Coprolites from
the Late Triassic Kap Steward Formation, Jameson Land, East Greenland: Morphology, classification and prey inclusions.
In: Kear, B.P., Lindgren, J., Hurum, J.H., Milàn, J. & Vajda, V. (eds): Mesozoic Biotas of Scandinavia and its Arctic Territories.
Geological Society of London, Special Publications 434, 49–69. [LINK]
Hansen, B.B., Hammer, Ø. & Nakrem, H.A. 2018: Stratigraphy and age of the Grippia niveau bonebed, Lower
Triassic Vikinghøgda Formation, Spitsbergen. Norwegian Journal of Geology 98, 175–187. [LINK]
Hurum, J.H., Engelschiøn, V.S., Økland, I., Bratvold, J., Ekeheien, C.P., Roberts, A.J., Delsett, L.L., Hansen, B.B.,
Mørk, A., Nakrem, H.A., Druckenmiller, P.S. & Hammer, Ø. 2018: The history of exploration and stratigraphy
of the Early to Middle Triassic vertebrate-bearing strata of Svalbard (Sassendalen Group, Spitsbergen).
Norwegian Journal of Geology 98, 165–174. [LINK]
Hammer, Ø., Jones, M.T., Schneebeli-Hermann, E., Hansen, B.B. & Bucher, H. 2019: Are Early Triassic extinction events
associated with mercury anomalies? A reassessment of the Smithian/Spathian boundary extinction. Earth-Science
Reviews 195, 179–190. [LINK]
Hansen, B.B., Bucher, H., Schneebeli-Hermann, E. and Hammer, Ø. 2020: The middle Smithian (Early Triassic)
ammonoid Arctoceras blomstrandi: conch morphology and ornamentation in relation to stratigraphy. Papers
in Palaeontology 7, 1435–1457. [LINK]
Popular scientific publications (in Danish)
Hansen, B.B. 2015: Koprolitter - en lille brik i rekonstruktionen af palæomiljøer.
Tidsskriftet Grønland 63, 126–134. [LINK]
Hansen, B.B. 2019: Liv og død på Svalbard for 250 millioner år siden.
Tidsskriftet Grønland 67, 202–206. [LINK]
Schoolbook (in Danish and Greenlandic)
Kleist, D.H., Hansen, B.B. and Juul-Nielsen, A.:
Grønlands Geologi - tag med på opdagelse.
Grønlands Selvstyre, 2018. [LINK]
