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Naish_profile_70_px.jpg With six years of phd work on theropod dinosaurs behind him, Darren Naish mostly spends long hours in the library, hunched over his laptop. But he gets out sometimes, and picks up litter and pursues exotic lizards across the British countryside, aiming all the while to publish his technical work on obscure Cretaceous dinosaurs. He also messes around with pterosaurs, swimming giraffes, British big cats and stuff like that. He has given up on the stupid idea of being a dedicated academic and ekes out a living as a technical consultant, editor and author. He can be contacted intermittently at eotyrannus (at) gmail dot com. For more biographical info go here.

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Palaeozoic tetrapods:

Tetrapods of 2007 (happy birthday Tet Zoo part II)

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?

Survivors, diggers, herbivores, first giant terrestrial vertebrates: the caseids

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...

Temnospondyls the early years (part II)

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...

Crassigyrinus, or... How I'd love a giant killer Carboniferous tadpole for a pet

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...

Temnospondyls the early years (part I)

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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