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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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July 31, 2009
Category: community
Welcome to the last article in my little series on Inside Nature's Giants (see part I, part II and part III first). The final, fourth episode looked at giraffes (or, specifically, Rothschild's giraffe Giraffa camelopardalis rothschildi, or G. rothschildi...
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July 29, 2009
Category: community
The third episode of Inside Nature's Giants (still available to watch, if you're in the UK) looked at a 17-year-old, 4 m long Nile crocodile Crocodylus niloticus that had died (very much prematurely) at a crocodile park in France...
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July 28, 2009
Category: community
The second episode of Inside Nature's Giants (read part I first) looked at whale anatomy: this time round, the autopsy was carried out on a Fin whale Balaenoptera physalus that had died off the coast of County Cork, southern Ireland....
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July 27, 2009
Category: community
Over the past few weeks, Channel 4 here in the UK screened the four-part series Inside Nature's Giants. If you're at all interested in the world of zoology you'll already - I assume - have heard quite a lot...
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July 25, 2009
Category: picture of the day
This work comes out in a few months though, as you can guess, I have my own advance copy already... Much more in due time. As before, see if you can identify any of the other works visible (just about)...
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July 24, 2009
Category: picture of the day
Neil 'where the fudge are my thalattosaurs' Kelley once brought my attention to the following piece of art... I thought about saying something intelligent, but decided not to. UPDATE: the image comes from here: Valin Mattheis's flickr site, and I...
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July 23, 2009
Category: conservation
Yesterday I did a day of work in London. Because everything finished far earlier than I was anticipating, I had time to kill so, accompanied by trusty sidekick John Conway, what else could I do but spend a few hours...
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July 21, 2009
Category: ornithology
I was sure I'd written about the wonderful subject of duck sex on Tet Zoo before. However, having searched the archives I can't find much, which seems odd. Male ducks have large - often very, very large - penises....
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July 20, 2009
Category: herpetology
That cute little Mexican snake was, obviously, a 'colubrid'. That means, essentially, that it's a colubroid snake that isn't a viperid, elapid, or a member of any of the other obviously distinct colubroid clades (more on this matter below)....
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July 19, 2009
Category: picture of the day
This is a quiz! Identify the Mexican snake! Photograph by Dave Hone!...
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