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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....
The Great Dinosaur Discoveries (US edition)
The Great Dinosaur Discoveries (UK edition)
Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life
Walking With Dinosaurs: The Evidence
Dinosaurs of the Isle of Wight
November 26, 2008
I think everyone seriously interested in animals collects dead animals, or bits of dead animals. Over the years I've built up a reasonably good collection of bones, teeth, antlers and carcasses, most of which are used 'academically' (in teaching and...
Posted by Darren Naish at 8:25 AM • 62 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 24, 2008
Another one from the archives, and another one from my rodent phase of 2006 (originally published here): despite efforts, I was simply unable to even scratch the surface of what is the largest extant mammalian 'Order'. Where appropriate I've...
Posted by Darren Naish at 9:05 AM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 20, 2008
Back in 2006 I took part in the 'ten birds' meme. If infected (do people normally speak of being 'infected' by memes?), you were supposed to write about ten birds that you found 'beautiful'. I decided to distort it slightly...
Posted by Darren Naish at 8:30 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 17, 2008
From the archives! One of the most unusual and interesting of amphibians has to be the Olm (Proteus anguinus), an unusual long-bodied cave-dwelling salamander from SE Europe [adjacent image from the Devon Karst Research Society]. Olms were the first specialised...
Posted by Darren Naish at 9:20 AM • 48 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 13, 2008
I've been so busy over the past several weeks that I've totally failed to keep up with several of my favourite blogs. One of them is Andrea Cau's Theropoda, written in Italian but translatable into English thanks to the wonder...
Posted by Darren Naish at 4:59 AM • 37 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 12, 2008
It's reasonably well known that fighting male deer are sometimes unable to extricate themselves after tangling their antlers together. Mammoths - which had more strongly curved tusks that living elephants - sometimes had a similar problem, as demonstrated by the...
Posted by Darren Naish at 10:48 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 11, 2008
Category: picture of the day
I would not like to be bitten by an African rock python Python sebae. Here's why....
Posted by Darren Naish at 6:53 PM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 10, 2008
Category: Mesozoic dinosaurs
Another book review. I've had a lot of them to do lately. The idea that feathers decorated and insulated the bodies of the small bird-like predatory dinosaurs of the Jurassic and Cretaceous - the coelurosaurs - is no longer a...
Posted by Darren Naish at 6:21 AM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 8, 2008
Category: crurotarsans
We all know that many birds feed their young. Nowadays, many of us are also familiar with the idea that hadrosaurs and other dinosaurs might also have fed their young. Far less well known is the possibility that crocodilians may...
Posted by Darren Naish at 7:18 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 6, 2008
Category: mammalogy
Knowing that members of a certain species sometimes reach a certain size is not always the same as actually seeing images of that certain species at that certain size. The Puma, Cougar or Mountain lion Puma concolor (other names include...
Posted by Darren Naish at 6:07 AM • 47 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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