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 •
Among the many, many groups I have yet to cover on Tet Zoo are stem-group synapsids: Synapsida is the tetrapod clade that includes mammals and all of their relatives, and there is a long tradition of referring to non-mammalian...
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Posted on July 16, 2007 6:48 AM • 24 Comments •
At last, I fulfill those promises of more temnospondyls. Last time we looked at the edopoids, perhaps the most basal temnospondyl clade: here we look at the rest of the basal forms. Scary predators, marine piscivores, late-surviving relics, and...
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Posted on July 9, 2007 8:01 AM • 10 Comments •
Today I submitted another one of those long-delayed manuscripts. Yay. I also got to work preparing one of the three conference talks I'm supposed to be giving this year - how the hell I'm going to pull off all...
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Posted on July 4, 2007 6:01 PM • 16 Comments •
The temnospondyls.. where to begin? They include terrestrial, amphibious and wholly aquatic forms, brackish-water and marine forms, small generalist predators, large and formidable super-newts, giant small-limbed pseudo-crocodiles, frog-headed lurkers, the famous tusked toilet-bowl heads [like gigantic
Mastodonsaurus giganteus, shown in adjacent image. That skull is 60 cm long], sail-backed and armoured forms.. and others. The smallest were less than 30 cm long; the biggest may have approached 10 m in length. They are so diverse that it is difficult to pick a representative member.
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Posted on June 29, 2007 11:00 AM • 19 Comments •