From the Archives
tetrapodzoology | November 17, 2008From the archives!
One of the most unusual and interesting of amphibians has to be the Olm (Proteus anguinus), an unusual long-bodied cave-dwelling salamander from SE Europe [adjacent image from the Devon Karst Research Society]. Olms were the first specialised cave-dwelling animals (so-called stygobionts or troglobites) to be discovered, they were traditionally identified as dragon larvae by local people, and they remain mysterious and the source of controversy, debate and discovery. I've had a special affinity for olms since seeing them (live) in the former Yugoslavia in 1987, and after a…
tetrapodzoology | October 29, 2008Yay - another one from the archives. This article first appeared on Tet Zoo ver 1 in April 2006 (here). If you've read it before, please have the decency to pretend that you haven't, thanks [excellent macronarian sauropods below from wikipedia].
I've stated before on this blog that I do quite a bit of consultancy work for companies that produce prehistoric animal books for children. In advising and assisting artists as often as I do, I find that they consistently screw up on the same things, every time. One of the biggest problem areas seems to be the hands and feet of sauropod dinosaurs - I…
tetrapodzoology | October 8, 2008
It is unfortunate that I just do not have the time to do any 'proper' blog writing at the moment. Winge winge winge. So I'm going to do a bad thing, but something that I've been advised to do, and something that lots of other people do anyway: I'm going to start re-publishing old Tet Zoo articles from ver 1. We'll call this 'From the archives'. If you're a long-time reader then, sorry, you're going to be seeing old stuff that you've seen before. But if you're a new "I've only known about Tet Zoo since it's been on ScienceBlogs" reader, well - ta da! The article here is the very first full-…