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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.
You've read the blog, now buy the books....
June 29, 2008
Category: mammalogy
By now I hope it's clear, even to novices with no special interest in the extinct wildlife of the Cenozoic, that ancient South America had what we might technically call a Really Awesome Faunal Assemblage. Astrapotheres, sebecosuchians, phorusrhacids, teratorns,...
Posted by Darren Naish at 7:37 PM • 15 Comments •
June 26, 2008
Category: picture of the day
There's a big crossover, sure, but I often wonder if everyone who visits Tet Zoo also visits SV-POW! Today is the day we put that to the test. To find out more about this image.... .... you must, by law,...
Posted by Darren Naish at 11:44 AM • 22 Comments •
June 25, 2008
Category: mammalogy
I was recently asked a reasonable and intelligent question on elephants. One thing led to another, and after a bit of research I discovered the fascinating world of elephant masturbation. If you want to collect sperm from a (captive) elephant,...
Posted by Darren Naish at 7:06 AM • 29 Comments •
June 24, 2008
Category: mammalogy
Here I am again, derailing the Tet Zoo publishing schedule, but while I have them on my mind I may as well deal with them now. It'll be brief (no, it wasn't). GOLDEN MOLES!!!1!, or chrysochlorids. If you think...
Posted by Darren Naish at 12:00 PM • 13 Comments •
June 23, 2008
Category: mammalogy
Phil Budd (of the Southampton Natural History Society) recently gave me a dead mole Talpa europaea, and here it is. It isn't the first mole for my collection: I have another one that I skeletonised long ago. Moles really...
Posted by Darren Naish at 6:59 AM • 22 Comments •
June 21, 2008
You wouldn't know it from Tet Zoo's content, but for many, many months now I've been working continually on ichthyosaurs, the 'fish lizards' of the Mesozoic. I'm not ready to talk about the project yet, but will do at...
Posted by Darren Naish at 5:09 PM • 32 Comments •
June 20, 2008
This is the third time that Tet Zoo has featured a dead giraffe (for the first time go here, and for the second go here). It's not that I don't like giraffes - quite the contrary - it's just...
Posted by Darren Naish at 7:41 AM • 8 Comments •
June 18, 2008
Category: ornithology
As with so many cool ideas, I will admit that many of us (myself included) promoted the whole 'prehensile hand' thing mainly because it was just so awesome.
Posted by Darren Naish at 6:34 PM • 38 Comments •
June 17, 2008
Category: frivolous nonsense
Shame, shame, shame, oh shame on me. I saw the following on John Conway's Philosophica Neopalaeontographica and have become so obsessed with it that, here I am, stealing it. It's not, even, really about tetrapods......
Posted by Darren Naish at 6:18 PM • 15 Comments •
June 16, 2008
The image depicted in the previous brief post is one of those famous iconic photos that many people have seen but few know anything about: it's an alleged yeti track, photographed by Eric Shipton and Michael Ward on the...
Posted by Darren Naish at 4:38 AM • 43 Comments •
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