Zlatozar Nikolaev Boev. Professor, PhD, Dsc. at the National Musuem of Natural History of BAS. Born on 20 October 1955 in Sofia (Bulgaria). Master's thesis (1980): "Ecological and faunistic studies of insectivorous mammals and rodents (Insectivora et Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Ograzhden mountain". Dept. of Vertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, Sofia Univ. "St. Kliment Ohridski"; PhD thesis, 1986): "Comparative and morphological studies of herons (Ardeidae) from Bulgaria". National Museum of Natural History, BAS; DSc thesis (1999): "Neogene and Quaternary birds (Aves) from Bulgaria". National Museum of Natural History, BAS. At the beginning of his scientific career, he studied the bone and exterior morphology of herons in Europe. He then worked in the field of archaeo- and paleornithology. He specialized in France, Georgia, Great Britain, Poland, and Russia. He studied fossil and subfossil birds from over 120 Middle Miocene to the Subrecent localities in Bulgaria, as well as fossil birds from Azerbaijan, Greece, Serbia, and Vietnam. He described for world science, 5 genera and 35 species, and 1 subspecies of fossil birds from Bulgaria and Greece. He discovered the first remains in Europe of hornbills (Bucerotiformes), as well as dozens of species new to the fossil record of Bulgaria and the Balkan Peninsula. He authored over 880 scientific and popular science publications and translated and edited over 160 popular science books and 282 films on natural history topics.