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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 30, 2010
Category: herpetology
Welcome to another article on the Matamata Chelus fimbriatus. Yay! In the previous episode we looked briefly at the Matamata's long, thick neck and on a few aspects of Matamata evolution (a brief introduction to what the Matamata is, and...
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July 29, 2010
Category: gratuitous self-promotion
Another book with my name on it has just appeared. Again it's a kid's book: Dorling Kindersley's Know It All (Baines 2010) - a fantastically well illustrated, fact-packed encylopedia of everything science (and the successor to the highly successful...
Posted by Darren Naish at 8:22 AM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 26, 2010
Category: herpetology
Some weeks ago I wrote a bit about the Matamata Chelus fimbriatus: a weird, flat-headed South American pleurodiran turtle. It's one of the strangest creatures tetrapods on the planet, and there's so much to say about it that the...
Posted by Darren Naish at 12:32 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 25, 2010
Category: speculative zoology
Like it says. One day all will be revealed. Not yet. Thanks to Tim Morris :)...
Posted by Darren Naish at 5:09 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 23, 2010
Category: ornithology
Regular readers will, hopefully, have shared my surprise on learning - firstly - that oystercatchers are sometimes 'captured' and killed by bivalves, and - secondly - that someone was clever enough to photograph such an occurrence and publish it...
Posted by Darren Naish at 11:13 AM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 21, 2010
Category: mammalogy
I said in the previous pronghorn article that the modern pronghorn - Antilocapra americana - is but the tip of the phylogenetic iceberg, if you will; the only surviving member of a group that was previously far more diverse...
Posted by Darren Naish at 4:52 AM • 40 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 20, 2010
Category: mammalogy
The Pronghorn or Pronghorn antelope* Antilocapra americana is a strikingly unique artiodactyl, endemic to western North America. Historically, it ranged from southern Manitoba and Washington in the north to northern Mexico in the south, and to western Iowa in...
Posted by Darren Naish at 5:00 AM • 48 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 19, 2010
Category: mammalogy
Thanks to everyone who had a go at guessing the identity of the mystery stuffed carnivoran. I am pleased, I suppose, to say that NOBODY GOT IT RIGHT, but some of you did come close. First of all, given that...
Posted by Darren Naish at 5:37 AM • 36 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 17, 2010
Category: picture of the day
Test your skills and identify this carnivoran (sorry the image isn't larger: this is all I got). It's not meant to be particularly easy, so good luck. The person who supplied the image is not allowed to play, and it...
Posted by Darren Naish at 7:36 AM • 55 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 16, 2010
Category: gratuitous self-promotion
I just received my copies of Dinosaurs Life Size, a children's book published by Barron's Educational in the USA and by New Burlington Books in the UK (Naish 2010). You can get it from amazon here (here from amazon.co.uk)....
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