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With six years of tedious phd work on theropod dinosaurs behind him, Darren Naish stares longingly from his office window at the birds outside and wonders: why did I bother? He pursues exotic lizards and feral cats across the British countryside, occasionally prizes the skeletal jaws from hedgehog corpses, and aims to publish his technical work on obscure Cretaceous dinosaurs. He remains desperately in quest of an academic job that'll last more than a month, and - with a background in TV research, e-learning development, academic editing, popular writing, teaching, landscape gardening, parenting and the wonderful world of retail - he still holds out hope of becoming a dedicated academic. He can be contacted intermittently at eotyrannus (at) gmail dot com. For more biographical info go here.

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March 29, 2008

Tet Zoo needs you!

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I've mentioned on and off lately that Tet Zoo the book is now go. The manuscript is complete, and right now (when not working on other things) I'm dealing with the editorial tidying-up. The book won't, I'm sorry to...

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March 27, 2008

Early abelisaurs and fan-crested and stretch-jawed hadrosaurs

Category: Mesozoic dinosaurs

Continuing the theme of discussing 'things in the news', we arrive, finally, at dinosaurs. The previous 'late news' pieces looked at fossil anurans and pterosaurs, and assorted mammals. So what news has been announced recently-ish in the world of...

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March 24, 2008

How intelligent dinosaurs conquered the world

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Maybe it's because I write too much, but I am frequently surprised and sometimes a little freaked out at the strange coincidences that have so often cropped up during my time here at Tet Zoo. Long-time readers will recall...

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March 21, 2008

The horror that is LOLSAUROPODS

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Dr David Hone is well known for many scientific achievements. For the description of the new rhynchosaur Fodonyx (Hone & Benton 2007a). For his papers on Cope's rule and macroevolutionary trends in archosaurs (Hone & Benton 2005, Hone et...

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March 20, 2008

Chinese black rhinos and deinotheres, giant sengis, and yet more new lemurs

Category: mammalogy

As explained in the previous article, here's another by-now-outdated effort to report on stuff that's been published recently, or recently-ish. This time: mammals....

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March 19, 2008

Tiny pterosaurs and pac-man frogs from hell

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It was Beelzebufo that finally made up my mind. Long-time readers will have noticed that I generally fail to discuss the exciting stuff that's being announced in the news, even when it's very much relevant to the Tet Zoo...

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March 17, 2008

Aquatic proto-people and the theory hypothesis of initial bipedalism

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Doubtless you've all heard of the aquatic ape hypothesis (AAH): that strangely popular notion which promotes the idea that modern humans owe their distinctive features to a marine phase. But have you heard about its most radical variation: the theory of initial bipedalism?

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March 15, 2008

Belated happy birthday AAB!

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And I just noticed that I managed to capture an orb in the photo too - well hey, must be because of those ghost videos I watched on youtube last night. Spooo-oo-oooo-ky!

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March 13, 2008

Pumas of South Africa, cheetahs of France, jaguars of England

Category: mammalogy

In the previous article (required reading) we looked at European leopards. But the leopard wasn't the only big spotted Panthera species that lived in Europe during the Pleistocene: it was joined by a second, far less well known animal:...

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March 12, 2008

Europe, where the sabre-tooths, lions and leopards are

Category: mammalogy

So, on to the contents of my BCiB talk (see previous article for preamble). We began by looking at Homotherium latidens, sometimes called the scimitar cat, scimitar-toothed cat or dirk-toothed cat. H. latidens is one of several Homotherium species...

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