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With six years of phd work on theropod dinosaurs behind him, Darren Naish mostly spends long hours in the library, hunched over his laptop. But he gets out sometimes, and picks up litter and pursues exotic lizards across the British countryside, aiming all the while to publish his technical work on obscure Cretaceous dinosaurs. He also messes around with pterosaurs, swimming giraffes, British big cats and stuff like that. He has given up on the stupid idea of being a dedicated academic and ekes out a living as a technical consultant, editor and author. He can be contacted intermittently at eotyrannus (at) gmail dot com. For more biographical info go here.
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Posted on: October 22, 2007 6:33 AM, by Darren Naish
For, like, the second time in the last six years we're going on holiday. So, goodbye. Back soon. Just received a copy of Gasparini et al.'s Patagonian Mesozoic Reptiles; looks awesome. Anurans, beluwhals, red panda empire, and really, really bizarre new sauropods when I get back. Yesterday I went rat-watching, and the adjacent picture shows how good I was at it :)
PS - remember to keep an eye on one of the Tet Zoo sister-sites, SV-POW!
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"...really, really bizarre new sauropods when I get back."
Curses! I'd've been better off not reading that.
Have a good trip.
Posted by: Warren B | October 22, 2007 11:39 AM
I was personally disappointed by Patagonian Mesozoic Reptiles, but of course, that's probably because I was only interested in the ornithischian section. :)
Posted by: Nick Gardner | October 22, 2007 10:27 PM
Darren! Don't forget about giraffes! Your article must be better, than ID supporter's stories like this: http://www.weloennig.de/Giraffe.pdf
Posted by: Paul I. Volkov | October 22, 2007 10:32 PM
Who said he could take holidays?
Stop thinking just of your self man, we are depending on you! :)
Enjoy yourself, I hope it's somewhere interesting, and don't go molesting the local wildlife wherever you go.
Posted by: Mark Lees | October 23, 2007 4:06 AM
Have a happy holiday
(you go away lots more than I do, though I did spend a weekend in Wales this year which was my first hols in about 7 years)
You had good luck with the rats (though I once saw one scampering happily though the legs of a crowd outside our football ground)
Posted by: Tengu | October 23, 2007 10:40 AM
Oh rats, I wanted to ask about this diagram from Aaron Filler's book The Upright Ape: http://www.uprightape.net/Image_Pages/UA_Fig6-2_DinoMam.html
Enjoy the time away.
Posted by: DDeden | October 23, 2007 2:59 PM
have fun!
Posted by: Anthony Docimo | October 25, 2007 12:34 PM
DDeden, I had a quick look though that home page of that Upright ape book, -I dont understand much.
But In chaper two he goes on about other theorists, the idea of change in nature is `not` new, it was postulated by several people independently, including several greek philosophers and I think one arabian scientist (Im sorry I cannot name them, maybe one of you lot knows?)
What about Wallace anyway?
And why does he talk about western religion? isnt eastern religion just as valid/invalid?? (says she who is a failed and cynical student of Buddhism)
Posted by: Tengu | October 25, 2007 4:20 PM
As the diagram itself says, it was reproduced from an article in the journal TREE (TRENDS in Ecology and Evolution).
According to what we've learned about the fossil record in the last 20 years, scenario A is correct.
Posted by: David Marjanović | October 29, 2007 8:58 AM