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Darren Naish is a science writer, technical editor and palaeozoologist (affiliated with the University of Portsmouth, UK) who mostly works on Cretaceous dinosaurs and pterosaurs. He also studies such things as the swimming abilities of giraffes and fossil marine reptiles. An avid interest in modern wildlife and conservation has resulted in many adventures in lizard-chasing, bird-watching and litter-collecting. I've been blogging since 2006 and a compilation of early Tet Zoo articles is now available in book form as Tetrapod Zoology Book One. Additional recent books include The Great Dinosaur Discoveries and Dinosaurs Life Size. For more biographical info go here. I can be contacted intermittently at eotyrannus (at) gmail dot com. PLEASE NOTE: I am now completely unable to keep up with email correspondence. I do my best to respond to all queries and requests, but please don't be offended if I fail to reply. I blog from and about conferences - please contact me for more info. Follow me on twitter: @TetZoo.
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The Great Dinosaur Discoveries (US edition)
Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life
"Walking with Dinosaurs": The Evidence - How Did They Know That?
Dinosaurs of the Isle of Wight (Guide 10; Field Guides to Fossils Series.) (Palaentology FG Fossils)
Tetrapod Zoology
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January 31, 2008
Category: crurotarsans
So, what exactly do scientists do when they feel that colleagues have behaved unethically? That's a good question and the answer is by no means clear...
Posted by Darren Naish at 1:00 AM • 30 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 30, 2008
Category: herpetology
The spikes on the back of the skull are also cool. Also emphasized here is how close the eyes are to the snout, and - if you imagine the skull without all the soft tissue in the way - how long and tall the back of the skull is, particularly the sagittal crest...
Posted by Darren Naish at 7:16 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 28, 2008
Category: ornithology
Keeping promises isn't always easy, but - following what is hopefully a forgiveable hiatus - here we get back to that short series on obscure island-dwelling, recently extinct animals. It started with a map of the Caribbean. Then we...
Posted by Darren Naish at 4:00 AM • 64 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 26, 2008
Yeah, they can often argue that they have teaching to deal with, but I don't see them staying up until 3 or 4 in the morning to get their papers written. In fact, just what the bloody hell do other academics do with their time?
Posted by Darren Naish at 6:33 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 24, 2008
I could finally get into the habit of swanning around London's West End, rubbing shoulders with Kate Moss and going to all the showbiz parties, snorting cocaine and so on. I blew what money I made on lap-dancing and expensive dinners. But it wasn't to last...
Posted by Darren Naish at 4:56 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 22, 2008
Category: ornithology
Time to resort to posting images, with minimal use of text, once more. Previously we had giraffes vs planes: these pictures - which are widely available on the web and unfortunately don't come with any details* - pretty much...
Posted by Darren Naish at 6:12 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 21, 2008
Given that I have a particular liking of obscure species, I had to take this on, and indeed you might argue that I had a responsibility to do so, given that virtually nothing non-technical has been written about many of the species concerned.
Posted by Darren Naish at 12:49 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 18, 2008
Those of you with particularly good memories might recall the little references I've been making here and there to a 'big, personally-relevant publication', and those asides to new papers about pleurodires and enantiornithines. Following horrific delays (caused by amphibians,...
Posted by Darren Naish at 5:11 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 17, 2008
Or - alternative title to this article - 'It will be the best conference of all time' (no hyperbole at all). Do you like dinosaurs? Are you particularly interested in our changing ideas about dinosaurs, about key discoveries and...
Posted by Darren Naish at 4:57 AM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 15, 2008
It seems that this story is already all over the internet - I would have posted on it sooner this morning but was busy with amphibians! Anyway... back in 2005 Mary Schweitzer and colleagues dropped a bombshell into the...
Posted by Darren Naish at 7:09 AM • 37 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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