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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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April 30, 2010
Category: picture of the day
Can you identify this peculiar odontocete? As always, dead easy. IF you know the answer. Thanks to Markus Bühler for the image. Oh, and while I'm here......
Posted by Darren Naish at 11:57 AM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 28, 2010
Category: herpetology
More on gekkotans, and this time were going to look at various details of gekkotan anatomy. Gekkotans are, being lizards, lizard-shaped (though with the near-limbless pygopodids being snake-like). But what makes them really special is that certain parts of...
Posted by Darren Naish at 8:15 AM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 26, 2010
Category: mammalogy
I really like sloths, but one of their recently discovered habits might make me like them a little bit less......
Posted by Darren Naish at 8:06 AM • 57 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 23, 2010
Category: herpetology
Now that the main gekkotan groups have been introduced, it's time to get down to some of the details. We begin with stuff on lifestyle and behaviour... [gekkotan motley below - mostly assembled from wikipedia - features (top, left to...
Posted by Darren Naish at 5:29 AM • 45 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 22, 2010
Category: herpetology
As you may know, Tet Zoo has been going for four years now. Despite this, there are still entire tetrapod clades - consisting of hundreds or even thousands of species - that have scarcely been mentioned here, if at all....
Posted by Darren Naish at 4:12 AM • 39 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 19, 2010
Category: pterosaurs
Earlier this year the awesome new ornithocheiroid pterosaur Zhenyuanopterus longirostris Lü, 2010 was described from the Yixian Formation of Liaoning Province, China. It has pretty incredible teeth, as well as a very interesting premaxillary crest......
Posted by Darren Naish at 11:11 AM • 50 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 17, 2010
Category: cryptozoology
This weekend (17th-18th April 2010), the 9th European Symposium of Cryptozoology is being held at Engreux in the south of Belgium. I meant to attend and give a talk, but had to cancel for financial reasons. And it's just...
Posted by Darren Naish at 6:24 PM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 15, 2010
Category: Mesozoic dinosaurs
Yet another entry from the fieldguide (though substantially updated and enlarged)... What might be one of the strangest Cretaceous birds was described in 2004. I refer of course to Aberratiodontus wui of the Jiufotang Formation of Liaoning Province, China. Named...
Posted by Darren Naish at 8:51 AM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 13, 2010
Category: Mesozoic dinosaurs
Again, more recycled text from the Mesozoic bird section of the fieldguide... Alexornis antecedens from the Upper Cretaceous (?Campanian) La Bocana Roja Formation of Mexico was first described in 1976; its remains were discovered in 1971 by H. J. Garbani...
Posted by Darren Naish at 11:00 AM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 12, 2010
Category: Mesozoic dinosaurs
When there's no time for anything else, at least I can recycle text from the aborted field-guide (see bottom for previous excerpts). Hmm, I really should get that published. Anyway... Protopteryx fengningensis was named in 2000 for two specimens discovered...
Posted by Darren Naish at 6:19 AM • 40 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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