My job at Impossible Pictures finished last week (though I am still doing the odd day here and there and am likely to go back to them in the future). Sigh, so much for digging myself out of that...
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Hello loyal readers: I know you're still there. Yet again I can't resist the lure of posting something new when I really shouldn't. Most of you, I'm sure, think that archaeopterygids - the archaic basal birds of Late Jurassic...
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Just a very quick post before I get back to work... Regular Tet Zoo readers will know that - for my shame - I'm a pathological collector of toy/model animals [for more, go to the ver 1 articles here...
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Posted by Darren Naish at 5:27 AM • 27 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
It isn't every day that your friends make the cover of Science magazine. Belated congrats to my friend Randy Irmis and his colleagues Sterling Nesbitt, Kevin Padian and others for their neat work on the dinosauromorph assemblage of Hayden...
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Posted by Darren Naish at 1:17 PM • 41 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Long-time blog readers will know that I am atrocious at keeping promises. And I will confess that part of the reason for titling an article 'Goodbye Tetrapod Zoology' was to cause a burst of panic, a rash of visitors...
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Posted by Darren Naish at 6:37 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
You all know that I'm just dying to publish those articles on biarmosuchians, dinocephalians and edaphosaurids, not to mention the dinoceratans, astrapotheres, pantodonts, pantolestans and nesophontids that I've been busy with lately. Then there are the stem-group monstersaurian lizards,...
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Posted by Darren Naish at 4:46 PM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: stem-synapsids
Among the many, many groups I have yet to cover on Tet Zoo are stem-group synapsids: Synapsida is the tetrapod clade that includes mammals and all of their relatives, and there is a long tradition of referring to non-mammalian...
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Posted by Darren Naish at 6:48 AM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: herpetology
Hooray: another of those articles that I've been promising to publish for weeks and weeks. Thanks mostly to the importance of the species in the international pet trade, the Green iguana Iguana iguana is typically imagined as a rather...
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Posted by Darren Naish at 9:13 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Today I had good reason to send to Markus Bühler - my good friend and an avid Tet Zoo supporter - several images of entelodonts. What the hell, I thought, why not share one of these images with the...
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Posted by Darren Naish at 4:51 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This photo depicts an assortment of hominid species, including most of the australopithecines and Homo ergaster (front left, facing camera). A neanderthal is at top right. The reconstructions (obviously, these are photos of the models) were produced by Wolfgang...
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