Chito and Pocho, frolicking in the water
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What's going on in these pictures?...
Posted by Darren Naish at 11:25 AM • 32 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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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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- The Tet Zoo tour of Libya (part I)
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- Toads of the world: first, (some) toads of the north
- Skulls, crests, snouts and giant poison glands: the heads of toads
- Our sex lives in words and pictures (or, On the reproductive biology of the Bufonidae)
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Tetrapod Zoology backstory
The ones I participate in
- Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week
- Azhdarchid Paleobiology
- Evolutionary Distinct and Globally Endangered, the Blog
- Southampton Natural History Society
- Chessel Bay Local Nature Reserve
- Ask A Biologist
Mostly on extant tetrapods
- Amphibian Species of the World
- AmphiaWeb
- Avibase
- The Beaked Whale Resource
- Biological Ramblings
- Birder's World Field of View
- Camera Trap Codger
- Carnivore Ecology & Conservation
- David B. Wake's Lab
- The EMYSystem
- European Field Herping
- Fretmarks
- Frog Matters
- The Global Owl Project
- The Glor Lab
- James F. Parham
- Lioncrusher's Domain
- The Lizard Lounge
- The Losos Lab
- Mammal Species of the World
- Marc van Roosmalen, Amazon Association
- The Marsupial Ring
- The Natural Stuff
- Penguinology
- Neil Phillips' Photos (UK Wildlife)
- Primate Info Net
- Reptiles & Amphibians of the UK
- The Reptipage
- The Rhino Resource Center
- Rigor Vitae
- The Shine Lab
- Sloth World
- The Tapir Gallery
- 10,000 Birds
- Tigr Reptile Database
- Ultimate Ungulate
- UK Wildlife - by Neil
- Venomous Snake Systematics Alert
- World Bird Info
Mostly Cenozoic
- Afarensis
- Caribbean Paleobiology
- The Coastal Paleontologist
- D. Croft S. American mammals
- Fossil Turtle Newsletter
- Gerald Mayr palaeornithology publications
- K. Christopher Beard publications
- John Hawks Anthropology weblog
- Olduvai George: Dealing with the Beasts
- Oludvai George Flickr site
- Paleocene mammals of the world
- Philip D. Gingerich
- Society of Avian Palaeontology and Evolution
- Stephen Wroe
- The Thewissen Lab
Mostly Mesozoic
- Ankylosaur Library
- Archives of the DML
- Australian Mesozoic Marine Reptiles
- Richard J. Butler ornithischians
- Chinleana
- Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings ver 1
- Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings ver 2
- DinoGoss
- Dinosaur genus list from Thomas R. Holtz's Dinosaurs
- DinoWight
- Dracovenator
- Early Bird
- The Science and Art of Gregory S. Paul
- Ichthyosaur Page (Ryosuke Motani)
- Jerry D. Harris
- The Life of Madygen
- Luis V. Rey's Art Gallery, Dinosaurs and Paleontology
- Mark Witton's photos
- Matt Wedel
- Matthew F. Bonnan
- Mesozoic Vertebrates (BSPG)
- Mike P. Taylor
- Oceans of Kansas
- The Open Source Paleontologist
- Palaeoblog
- Palaeontography
- Paleocreations.com
- Paleo Errata
- Philosophica Neopalaeontographica
- The Plesiosaur Directory
- The Plesiosaur Site
- Susan E. Evans, UCL
- Theropoda
- The Theropod Archives
- The Theropod Database
- Why I Hate Theropods
- Zhe-Xi Luo publications
Palaeozoic
Cryptozoology
- The Aquatic Monsters Site
- Big Cats in Britain
- Centre for Fortean Zoology
- Cryptomundo
- Cryptozoology.com
- Loch Ness Investigation
- Virtual Institute of Cryptozoology
Speculative Zoology
- Conceptual Zoology
- Dougal Dixon's After Man
- The Future is Wild
- Metazoica
- Metazoica, the blog
- The Neocene Project
- Philosophica Dixonia
- Spectim
- The Speculative Dinosaur Project
- Speculative Evolution Forum
- The Squamozoic
Toys and models
- The Dinosaur Toy Blog
- The Dinosaur Toy Forum
- Scheich figures at SPModels
- Tapir and Friends Wildlife World
Not easily categorised
- The Aquatic Amniote
- Ask Dr Vector
- Bestiarium
- Catalogue of Organisms
- Dinochick Blogs
- Dots in Deep Time
- The Dragon's Tales
- The Disillusioned Taxonomist
- The Ethical Palaeontologist
- Evolving Thoughts
- Fish Feet
- Hairy Museum of Natural History
- Laelaps
- The Lord Geekington
- Matt Bille's Sci/Tech blog
- News from Nemo Ramjet
- Nimravid's Weblog
- Pondering Pikaia
- Querencia
- StrangeArk
- Stenfugle
- The Theatrical Tanystropheus
- Traumador the tyrannosaur in The Tyrannosaur Chronicles
- When Pigs Fly Returns
- The World We Don't Live In
- Witmer Lab
Invaluable resources
You've read the blog, now buy the books....
The Great Dinosaur Discoveries (US edition)
The Great Dinosaur Discoveries (UK edition)
Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life
Walking With Dinosaurs: The Evidence
Dinosaurs of the Isle of Wight
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picture of the day:
There are green furry dilophosaurs now?
Category: Mesozoic dinosaurs
Yes, yes there are. Stay tuned, all will be revealed. And if you know what this is all about, and where it went and how it ended up and so on, please don't spoil it for everyone else. Yet....
Posted by Darren Naish at 8:53 AM • 43 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Holy crap: it's.... it's... one of those!
Category: ornithology
Some days ago I went to the Isle of Wight Tiger and Lemur Sanctuary (which is where I saw all those big cats). And while there, one of the undoubted highlights was this amazing beast... What is it, and what...
Posted by Darren Naish at 8:40 AM • 39 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Big cats on holiday
Category: mammalogy
No time for anything substantive, but here's a montage featuring some of the stuff we've been looking at while on holiday. Some of the cats here are rather unusual: the tiger in the middle of the top row was a...
Posted by Darren Naish at 6:53 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Because we all love Paleogene 'ungulates'
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Posted by Darren Naish at 7:39 AM • 37 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Sneak peek
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This work comes out in a few months though, as you can guess, I have my own advance copy already... Much more in due time. As before, see if you can identify any of the other works visible (just about)...
Posted by Darren Naish at 11:44 AM • 29 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Rogue killer Ice Age walruses can really ruin your day
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Neil 'where the fudge are my thalattosaurs' Kelley once brought my attention to the following piece of art... I thought about saying something intelligent, but decided not to. UPDATE: the image comes from here: Valin Mattheis's flickr site, and I...
Posted by Darren Naish at 8:18 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Una serpiente pequeña
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This is a quiz! Identify the Mexican snake! Photograph by Dave Hone!...
Posted by Darren Naish at 6:56 AM • 29 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The newest whales
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In time-honoured tradition, here are some slides from one of my talks. They're self-explanatory, but let me know if elaboration is required......
Posted by Darren Naish at 6:23 AM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The other ground hornbill
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Ground hornbills - or bucorvids - have been Tet Zoo mainstays since the early days of 2006. However, the only species that I ever feature is the Southern ground hornbill Bucorvus leadbeateri (sometimes incorrectly referred to by one of its...
Posted by Darren Naish at 5:30 AM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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