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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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ornithology:
Yesterday, my colleague Anthony Butcher (who shares my office at UoP.. but, alas, works on Palaeozoic microfossils called chitinozoans) was driving out of our carpark when he realised that the grey object he had driven past on the pavement...
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Posted on May 2, 2008 1:19 PM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
If you've been with Tet Zoo since the beginning (early 2006), you will know that, again and again and again and again, we've been coming back to the fact that large eagles, like Golden eagles Aquila chrysaetos, can and do...
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Posted on April 15, 2008 8:51 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I've mentioned on and off lately that Tet Zoo the book is now go. The manuscript is complete, and right now (when not working on other things) I'm dealing with the editorial tidying-up. The book won't, I'm sorry to...
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Posted on March 29, 2008 2:03 PM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I've said it before and I'm sure I'll be saying it again: one of the best ways to invigorate your enthusiasm about a subject is to attend a conference on it, and to spend at least a couple of...
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Posted on March 11, 2008 7:03 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Alternative theories like the haematotherm concept can be a good thing, because they force workers to tighten up 'traditional' models and to marshal a more convincing supporting data set, but they can also cause people to waste a lot of time when they could be doing something more useful!
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Posted on March 6, 2008 6:07 AM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I spent much of my Saturday doing an interesting thing. Together with another 30 or so people, I went along to my local nature reserve (Chessel Bay Nature Reserve, Southampton) and took part in an effort to clear the...
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Posted on March 3, 2008 4:02 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Keeping promises isn't always easy, but - following what is hopefully a forgiveable hiatus - here we get back to that short series on obscure island-dwelling, recently extinct animals. It started with a map of the Caribbean. Then we...
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Posted on January 28, 2008 4:00 AM • 50 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Yeah, they can often argue that they have teaching to deal with, but I don't see them staying up until 3 or 4 in the morning to get their papers written. In fact, just what the bloody hell do other academics do with their time?
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Posted on January 26, 2008 6:33 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Time to resort to posting images, with minimal use of text, once more. Previously we had giraffes vs planes: these pictures - which are widely available on the web and unfortunately don't come with any details* - pretty much...
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Posted on January 22, 2008 6:12 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In the image here, Tone is standing next to it. An actual live Andean condor can just about be seen sitting in the enclosure in the background. An Andean condor isn't quite as big as
Argentavis: the latter had a wingspan of over 6 m and probably weighed around 80 kg whereas the former might have a wingspan of just over 3 m with a heavy male weighing up to 12 kg...
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Posted on November 1, 2007 9:27 PM • 30 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
