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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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Dinosaurs of the Isle of Wight (Guide 10; Field Guides to Fossils Series.) (Palaentology FG Fossils)
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July 31, 2008
Category: mammalogy
More on weird odontocete skulls. This time, another river dolphin: this is the skull of the Amazon river dolphin or Boto Inia geoffrensis, also known as the tonina, bufeo or pink dolphin. Three generally recognised Inia taxa exist, and views...
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July 30, 2008
Category: mammalogy
Yay: day 3 of seriously frickin' weird cetacean skull week. While we've previously been looking at the skulls of extant species, this time we have a fossil (or, actually, a diagram of one: from Muizon 1988). It's Scaphokogia cochlearis from...
Posted by Darren Naish at 5:31 AM • 33 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 29, 2008
Category: mammalogy
Welcome to day 2 of seriously frickin' weird cetacean skull week, and here we look at one of my favourites: Platanista, the Asian river dolphins or susus. Susu is a Hindi onomatopoetic name based on the exhalation noise these dolphins...
Posted by Darren Naish at 6:07 AM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 28, 2008
Category: mammalogy
Welcome to another of those week-long series of themed posts, produced (ostensibly) to save me from spending time on blogging (other jobs require priority). Previous series have been ankylosaur week and sea monster week. This time round we're looking...
Posted by Darren Naish at 5:50 AM • 27 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 26, 2008
Very late to the party here (the story was first published waaaaaay back on the 18th), but it just seems wrong not to cover this at Tet Zoo. Sincere apologies to the Bleiman brothers at Zooillogix and to John Lynch...
Posted by Darren Naish at 5:40 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 25, 2008
Category: mammalogy
We looked previously at a partial skull, collected in northern Africa. Apart from the odd outing when it's been used in teaching, it's been sat in a box on my desk for a couple of years now, forlornly hoping that...
Posted by Darren Naish at 6:08 AM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 22, 2008
Category: picture of the day
This incomplete fossil skull was collected from the coast of northern Africa by Dave Martill and is suspected to represent a new species. It's one of those annoying back-burner projects that sits there on your desk for months and months.....
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July 21, 2008
Category: Mesozoic dinosaurs
The idea that non-avian dinosaurs might have been able to climb trees is (I assume) not all that familiar to people outside the field of dinosaur research, but within the field of dinosaur research it has become an increasingly...
Posted by Darren Naish at 5:22 AM • 38 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 20, 2008
Annoying teaser ahoy! The tree-climbing dinosaurs are coming......
Posted by Darren Naish at 4:34 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 18, 2008
Category: mammalogy
Once upon a time longhorn cattle were abundant and kept by many people; in fact, they were the most abundant domestic cattle, and this breed more than any others was selected for 'improvement' by Robert Bakewell (1725-1795) of Leicestershire, the...
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