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With six years of tedious phd work on theropod dinosaurs behind him, Darren Naish stares longingly from his office window at the birds outside and wonders: why did I bother? He pursues exotic lizards and feral cats across the British countryside, occasionally prizes the skeletal jaws from hedgehog corpses, and aims to publish his technical work on obscure Cretaceous dinosaurs. He remains desperately in quest of an academic job that'll last more than a month, and - with a background in TV research, e-learning development, academic editing, popular writing, teaching, landscape gardening, parenting and the wonderful world of retail - he still holds out hope of becoming a dedicated academic. He can be contacted intermittently at eotyrannus (at) gmail dot com. For more biographical info go here.
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Welcome to the third and final part of my write-up of the CEE functional anatomy meeting: for part I go here, and for part II here. Here's where we wrap things up, but let's get through the last of...
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Posted on April 30, 2008 5:14 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
More recollections from the CEE Functional Anatomy meeting: part I is here. We looked in the previous article at Robin Crompton's overview of primate locomotor ecology and evolution, Renate Weller's overview of new technologies, John Hutchinson's work on dinosaur...
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Posted on April 29, 2008 4:57 AM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
At a vertebrate palaeontology workshop held in Maastricht in 1998, some colleagues and I sat in a bar, lamenting the fact that nobody cared about anatomy any more, and that funding bodies and academia in general were only interested...
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Posted on April 28, 2008 7:01 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Yesterday I attended the Centre for Evolution and Ecology workshop 'Modern Approaches to Functional Anatomy', held at the Natural History Museum (and organised by the Royal Veterinary College's John Hutchinson). Whoah: what a meeting......
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Posted on April 24, 2008 9:27 AM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Quite why and how lynxes then became extinct in Britain - especially when they survived in Scandinavia and elsewhere in Europe - is open to speculation; it's assumed that deforestation, hunting and persecution did the lynx in. Is it conceivable that they survived from the 5th, 6th or 7th century to even more recent times?
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Posted on April 21, 2008 8:16 AM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I don't think this reflects any sort of penisocentric bias: it's simply easier to extrude and meddle with a dead or anaesthetised penis than it is to peer deep into the recesses of a vagina. Insert here hilarious quip about personal experience...
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Posted on April 9, 2008 5:37 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In the previous article we looked at the discovery of the Red panda Ailurus fulgens, and also at some aspects of its biology and distribution. There's so much I didn't cover: Red panda physiology is bizarrely interesting, for example....
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Posted on April 5, 2008 7:32 AM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
They sit there, mostly curled up, mostly asleep, high up in tree-tops, sometimes chewing on bits of plants. But little known is that, deep within their furry little heads, they harbour an unknown desire: to take over the world......
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Posted on April 3, 2008 6:49 PM • 42 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This picture borrowed from wikipedia. Full story later (about wahs, not wikipedia)....
Posted on April 3, 2008 4:55 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Is it a coincidence that people seek out caves and tunnels to explore and wonder at while on holiday? Many people admit to psychiatrists that they dream of burrowing and tunnelling. And let us not forget that millions of people travel to and from work on a daily basis via subterranean tunnels, showing a statistical preference for this mode of travel rather than for the supra-terrestrial environment shunned by our amphisbaenian ancestors...
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Posted on April 1, 2008 3:12 AM • 59 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
