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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
August 30, 2009
Category: ornithology
The recent article about Meller's duck Anas melleri inspired me to recycle my ver 1 article about another of Madagascar's endemic ducks, the Madagascar pochard Aythya innotata [male shown below]. Meller's duck is endangered, with a global population of between...
Posted by Darren Naish at 7:05 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 28, 2009
Category: conservation
If you follow the comments here at Tet Zoo you'll already have seen the thread that's been developing on the 'Giant killers: macropredation in lions' article (originally posted back in February, and itself a re-post of a ver 1...
Posted by Darren Naish at 8:17 AM • 239 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 26, 2009
Category: ornithology
If you said that the mystery duck from yesterday was a mallard, a weird mallard hybrid, a shoveler of some sort, or blah blah blah, then shame shame shame on you: you are a loser. If, however, you said...
Posted by Darren Naish at 2:28 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 25, 2009
Category: ornithology
Some days ago I went to the Isle of Wight Tiger and Lemur Sanctuary (which is where I saw all those big cats). And while there, one of the undoubted highlights was this amazing beast... What is it, and what...
Posted by Darren Naish at 8:40 AM • 39 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 24, 2009
Category: mammalogy
Time to finish with the mesonychians. Previous articles have looked at Andrewsarchus and the triisodontids, the mesonychids, and the hapalodectids. That's essentially it... though - as mentioned a few times now - Andrewsarchus doesn't seem to be a mesonychian...
Posted by Darren Naish at 5:15 AM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 22, 2009
Category: community
If you've been enjoying the series on mesonychians you'll be pleased to hear that it's not completely over. There are a few groups yet to come (though, as we'll see, whether they really are mesonychians or not is controversial. 1000...
Posted by Darren Naish at 3:17 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 20, 2009
Category: mammalogy
No time for anything substantive, but here's a montage featuring some of the stuff we've been looking at while on holiday. Some of the cats here are rather unusual: the tiger in the middle of the top row was a...
Posted by Darren Naish at 6:53 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 19, 2009
Category: community
Yeah, what the hell, what have I got to lose, what's the worse that could happen, and other such platitudes... I finally decided, after an annoying number of prompts and requests and so on, to join the time-sucking black hole...
Posted by Darren Naish at 12:04 PM • 31 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 18, 2009
Category: community
First of all, I've been away (speaking about fossil cats again), though - as previously - you might not have known this given that a list of posts were scheduled to appear in my absence. Is there more on mesonychians...
Posted by Darren Naish at 7:31 AM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 17, 2009
Category: mammalogy
We now move to another mesonychian group: Hapalodectidae. This is yet another of those obscure little groups that sounds really interesting, yet are never the subject of focus or discussion. Virtually all of the literature on them - and...
Posted by Darren Naish at 8:30 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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