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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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August 30, 2010
Category: mammalogy
There's no denying that Physeter macrocephalus - the Sperm whale or Great sperm whale - is a very special, very weird mammal, and (as yet) I haven't done it justice at Tet Zoo. That will be rectified in time, honest...
Posted by Darren Naish at 6:54 AM • 41 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 27, 2010
Category: herpetology
Once more, we return to those wonderful, phenomenally successful, charismatic beasts.... the toads. As you'll know if you've read the previous articles in the toads series, it seems that most basal divergences within crown-Bufonidae happened in South America. So...
Posted by Darren Naish at 8:22 AM • 30 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 25, 2010
Category: frivolous nonsense
While on holiday in Wales recently, we visited Cardiff Castle. Located within the grounds is the Victorian House, extensively transformed between the late 1860s and 1930s by William Burgess under John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute. I was quite...
Posted by Darren Naish at 4:46 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 23, 2010
Category: herpetology
In the previous Matamata article I discussed the very scary skull and hyoid anatomy of this singular South American turtle. The 'ugly' look of the Matamata is well known, but hopefully you now know that the Matamata should also...
Posted by Darren Naish at 8:10 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 18, 2010
Category: mammalogy
Photos purported to show 'mystery animals' are always great fun. One of the most perplexing and curious of the lot was taken on a box Brownie camera near Goroke, western Victoria, Australia, in 1964. I'm referring, of course, to Rilla...
Posted by Darren Naish at 9:25 PM • 135 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 12, 2010
Category: mammalogy
I'm away right now, and haven't had time to prepare new stuff. So, here's something from the archives again: by which I mean, something written in 2006. It's still pretty interesting (in my humble opinion), but I would definitely...
Posted by Darren Naish at 7:56 AM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 9, 2010
Category: herpetology
Lest we forget, one of my aims for 2009-2010 is TO GET THROUGH ALL THE TOADS OF THE WORLD. I don't mean every single species (because there... like, over 540 of them), but all the 'genera' at least. If...
Posted by Darren Naish at 5:26 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 6, 2010
Category: ornithology
A challenge for you (albeit another easy one): what species, and what activity, do these photos represent? I'll give you a few clues......
Posted by Darren Naish at 12:06 PM • 30 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 4, 2010
Category: mammalogy
After I'd finished writing about the new Madagascan mongoose, I thought it only right to add material to the end of the article about some of the other new discoveries made in the world of mammalogy. But, as happens...
Posted by Darren Naish at 12:26 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 2, 2010
Category: mammalogy
The fact that new, modern-day mammal species are discovered on a fairly regular basis should most definitely not be a surprise to the average Tet Zoo reader. These are not all 'cryptic species' distinguishable only on the basis of...
Posted by Darren Naish at 9:44 AM • 128 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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