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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.
You've read the blog, now buy the books....
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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September 30, 2009
Category: Palaeozoic tetrapods
First of all, here are some temnospondyls. This composite image was compiled by repositioning the reconstructions provided by DeFauw (1989): looks neat, doesn't it? So, I recently returned from the 69th Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting, this year held in...
Posted by Darren Naish at 8:35 AM • 64 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 28, 2009
Category: frivolous nonsense
After all that talk of tapirs biting people's arms off and killing Brazilian farmers, it only seems appropriate to post these pictures, taken at Bristol Zoo on Sunday (a group of us went there after SVP). The keeper obviously has...
Posted by Darren Naish at 6:26 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 22, 2009
Category: Mesozoic dinosaurs
I am reliably informed that a book I wrote during 2008 - The Great Dinosaur Discoveries (A & C Black, 2009) - is now out and available in the shops....
Posted by Darren Naish at 8:25 AM • 65 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 18, 2009
Category: mammalogy
Yet again the world is going nuts over a weird, ugly carcass that is being identified by some as an alien, as a genetic mutation 'of some sort' (duh?), as a deformed dolphin (seriously: what?), or as an unidentified 'monster'...
Posted by Darren Naish at 8:25 AM • 101 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 17, 2009
Category: mammalogy
You may recall that we had a bit of an Andrewsarchus thing going on here back in August. As you'll know if you followed the articles in question, there is now some suggestion that Andrewsarchus was not the megawolf mesonychian...
Posted by Darren Naish at 7:29 AM • 47 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 16, 2009
Category: Mesozoic dinosaurs
Once again I'm going to recycle an old book review, sorry about that. Have had no internet access at home for the last few days, so things have been difficult here, to say the least (like so many people,...
Posted by Darren Naish at 8:41 AM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 12, 2009
Category: hate-filled rants
Those of us who publish technical research papers like to see our work cited by our colleagues. Indeed, it's integral to one's success as a researcher (whatever 'success' means) that others cite your work, in whatever context. You might...
Posted by Darren Naish at 10:21 AM • 58 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 10, 2009
Category: picture of the day
What's going on in these pictures?...
Posted by Darren Naish at 11:25 AM • 33 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 9, 2009
Category: ornithology
If you're a long-time reader of Tet Zoo you'll be familiar with the remarkable fact that Greater noctules Nyctalus lasiopterus predate on nocturnally migrating passerine birds (this was discussed in a ver 1 article that I'll update and recycle...
Posted by Darren Naish at 11:32 AM • 41 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 8, 2009
Category: frivolous nonsense
I'm somewhat pushed for time at the moment (massive, massive understatement), so nothing new here, sorry. Too busy with book jobs, SVP preparation, demolition work, baby care and other stuff. So here's some nonsense: if you've been with me from...
Posted by Darren Naish at 5:05 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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