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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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The Great Dinosaur Discoveries (US edition)
Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life
"Walking with Dinosaurs": The Evidence - How Did They Know That?
Dinosaurs of the Isle of Wight (Guide 10; Field Guides to Fossils Series.) (Palaentology FG Fossils)
Tetrapod Zoology
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June 29, 2009
Category: mammalogy
The Leopard cat Prionailurus bengalensis is native to southern and eastern Asia, including the Philippines and Indonesia. It's a highly variable little cat, regarded by some workers as consisting of at least ten subspecies. Some (like the Sumatran leopard cat...
Posted by Darren Naish at 4:38 AM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 27, 2009
Category: herpetology
For millenia, a battle has raged between alligators and water melons. Who will win? Well, the answer's obvious: one has a bite force of over 15,000 Newtons, and the other one's a water melon. Yes, the alligator vs water melon...
Posted by Darren Naish at 7:00 PM • 49 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 25, 2009
Category: herpetology
It's well known that elephants have a major impact on their environment: indeed, they're what's known as ecosystem engineers. In a new study, Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz of the University of Tokyo reports that Asian elephant dung might serve a hitherto...
Posted by Darren Naish at 12:14 PM • 50 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 24, 2009
Category: from the archives
The photo of the Northern ground hornbill Bucorvus abyssinicus featured here yesterday was posted entirely on a whim. And I figured that I didn't need to say much about the species, nor about ground hornbills in general, given that...
Posted by Darren Naish at 2:49 AM • 107 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 23, 2009
Category: picture of the day
Ground hornbills - or bucorvids - have been Tet Zoo mainstays since the early days of 2006. However, the only species that I ever feature is the Southern ground hornbill Bucorvus leadbeateri (sometimes incorrectly referred to by one of its...
Posted by Darren Naish at 5:30 AM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 21, 2009
Category: herpetology
At some stage, I'll have to write full-length articles on lysorophians, aïstopods, the remaining temnospondyls, nectrideans, microsaurs, and assorted other groups of Palaeozoic and Mesozoic non-amniote tetrapods. Alas, this hasn't happened yet. In the meantime, here are some slides from...
Posted by Darren Naish at 7:33 AM • 77 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 19, 2009
Category: Mesozoic dinosaurs
Oh, what the hell: given that we've already covered a new Wealden theropod, and have looked a bit at the palaeobiology of Majungasaurus within the week, I may as well resist my urge not to do more dinosaurs. In...
Posted by Darren Naish at 6:20 AM • 180 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 16, 2009
Category: Mesozoic dinosaurs
I've had no time to complete any new articles, and after the text you're reading now - originally intended to be a comment appended to Cute, furry, has claws, bites - got to reasonable length, I thought I may...
Posted by Darren Naish at 7:15 PM • 113 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 15, 2009
Category: Mesozoic dinosaurs
I think I said recently that there have been way too many dinosaurs on Tet Zoo lately. It isn't that I don't like dinosaurs: it's just that I aim to provide balance and, let's face it, writing about charismatic...
Posted by Darren Naish at 8:24 AM • 81 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 13, 2009
Category: mammalogy
I'm sure you'll agree that there have been way too many dinosaurs on Tet Zoo over the past few weeks. Let's balance things out by showing a cute little rodent. Your challenge: to identify it to species and - if...
Posted by Darren Naish at 6:57 AM • 133 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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