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Darren Naish is a science writer, technical editor and palaeozoologist (affiliated with the University of Portsmouth, UK) who mostly works on Cretaceous dinosaurs and pterosaurs. He also studies such things as the swimming abilities of giraffes and fossil marine reptiles. An avid interest in modern wildlife and conservation has resulted in many adventures in lizard-chasing, bird-watching and litter-collecting. I've been blogging since 2006 and a compilation of early Tet Zoo articles is now available in book form as Tetrapod Zoology Book One. Additional recent books include The Great Dinosaur Discoveries and Dinosaurs Life Size. For more biographical info go here. I can be contacted intermittently at eotyrannus (at) gmail dot com. PLEASE NOTE: I am now completely unable to keep up with email correspondence. I do my best to respond to all queries and requests, but please don't be offended if I fail to reply. I blog from and about conferences - please contact me for more info. Follow me on twitter: @TetZoo.
You've read the blog, now buy the books....
The Great Dinosaur Discoveries (US edition)
Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life
"Walking with Dinosaurs": The Evidence - How Did They Know That?
Dinosaurs of the Isle of Wight (Guide 10; Field Guides to Fossils Series.) (Palaentology FG Fossils)
Tetrapod Zoology
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April 29, 2007
Category: herpetology
Popular culture would have it that turtles are weak, flaccid, crappy organisms with dull social lives, stunted and barely functional internal organs and - it goes without saying - undersized sex organs. Right? WRONG... Warning: the following blog post...
Posted by Darren Naish at 10:41 PM • 88 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 27, 2007
Category: Mesozoic dinosaurs
So, on to more ornithomimosaurs, aka ostrich dinosaurs (part I here). This time, the ornithomimids: this is the ornithomimosaur clade that includes only the edentulous arctometatarsalian taxa. Yes, I said arctometatarsalian*. However, note that some authors have incorrectly regarded...
Posted by Darren Naish at 11:18 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 25, 2007
Category: Mesozoic dinosaurs
As events conspire, I again find myself unable to devote time to completing any new blog posts. That's a shame, as I'm desperate to finish and publish my article on the terrifying sex organs of male turtles (yes really:...
Posted by Darren Naish at 10:14 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 22, 2007
A week ago I went on a tetrapod-finding trip - with my good friends Mark North and Jon McGowan - to the Isle of Portland. Portland isn't an island: it's a promontory, sticking out from the south coast of...
Posted by Darren Naish at 10:54 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 21, 2007
Category: preemptive
Hmm, how cryptic. Post to follow soon (thanks to Mark North for photo: that's him on the right). Calling all palaeo-artist friends and colleagues: please start sending me your temnospondyl images (see profile for email)....
Posted by Darren Naish at 10:50 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 18, 2007
Category: mammalogy
I've said it before and I'll say it again: we keep coming back to the subject of flightless bats. Besides fictional future predators and night stalkers, there never have been any flightless bats so far as we know. Whenever...
Posted by Darren Naish at 11:36 PM • 34 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 14, 2007
Category: mammalogy
I'm out in the field tomorrow: whether I blog on what happens will depend on... what happens. Think snakes, sea caves and mammal tracking. Until then, here is a mystery......
Posted by Darren Naish at 8:17 PM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 12, 2007
Category: Mesozoic dinosaurs
Yesterday the most remarkable thing happened. No, I have not been handed new DNA work on the Dufftown rabbit-headed cat, nor has the rest of Yaverlandia been found. An articulated azhdarchid has not been discovered on a Cretaceous savannah...
Posted by Darren Naish at 7:01 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 10, 2007
Category: herpetology
In the previous post we introduced the aetosaurs, a strange and fascinating group of armour-plated quadrupedal Triassic crurotarsans. Equipped with stout limbs, a strange upturned snout and (usually) toothless jaw tips, aetosaurs have been interpreted as omnivores, herbivores, and...
Posted by Darren Naish at 11:54 PM • 95 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: preemptive
More aetosaurs coming soon. If only I didn't have all this other crap to deal with first....
Posted by Darren Naish at 1:17 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
