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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
February 28, 2009
Category: mammalogy
Dave Hone - who's had more than his fair share of mentions here at Tet Zoo over the past several days - accompanied me on a visit to Marwell Zoo yesterday. We had a great time, but unfortunately got...
Posted by Darren Naish at 8:37 AM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 27, 2009
Category: herpetology
More snakes, because - thanks to Dave Hone - I have some more pictures to use (and, I'll be honest, at least some of my posts are 'picture-driven'). We've looked previously at the unusual, mostly small, worm-like, burrowing snakes grouped...
Posted by Darren Naish at 4:08 AM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 26, 2009
Category: herpetology
Anyone who's anyone has heard of the Anaconda. But in fact 'the' Anaconda is the Green anaconda Eunectes murinus. Most zoologically-informed people know that there's a lesser-known, smaller relative of this large species, namely the Yellow or Paraguayan anaconda E....
Posted by Darren Naish at 9:48 AM • 29 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 25, 2009
Category: herpetology
Yes, more snakes: after yesterday's horned snake article (thanks to everyone who chipped in with ideas and comments) I've decided to stick with snakes for a while. I can knock these articles up in a few minutes, and unfortunately...
Posted by Darren Naish at 6:05 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 24, 2009
Category: herpetology
Dave Hone (of Archosaur Musings and Ask A Biologist) kindly provided the photo you see here of two captive West African gaboon vipers Bitis rhinoceros (NOT East African gaboon vipers B. gabonica: see comments), and initially I was going...
Posted by Darren Naish at 5:51 AM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 23, 2009
Category: mammalogy
More stuff from the archives... or, from Tet Zoo ver 1 anyway. The following article is about the bizarre jerboa Euchoreutes naso. Back when I wrote the article (2006), there were no photos of this species available, and I...
Posted by Darren Naish at 4:13 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 21, 2009
Category: ornithology
I picked up a lot of dead stuff in Morocco. One of the neatest things I brought back was this very large owl pellet (now broken into bits), discovered by Dave Martill at the same place where we were awoken...
Posted by Darren Naish at 6:13 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 20, 2009
Category: ornithology
While checking a few details on kiwi skeletal anatomy the other day, I discovered some old material I'd written on these strange birds. I've updated it, and here's the first lot of it. Kiwi have been known to science...
Posted by Darren Naish at 7:29 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 19, 2009
Category: ornithology
Well, arguing about the physiology of Mesozoic archosaurs has been fun but I just can't put the time into it. Moving on, here's something entirely different......
Posted by Darren Naish at 11:02 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 18, 2009
Category: pterosaurs
Just when I'm in the middle of talking about the new dinosaurs and pterosaurs that were published in January (part I, part II, part III), February is turning out to be just as interesting. Yesterday saw the debut of the...
Posted by Darren Naish at 5:09 AM • 120 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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