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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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January 28, 2011
Category: ornithology
Please identify. If possible, make it more interesting by saying something about the animal's behaviour, ecology and/or phylogenetic position (believe me, there is plenty to say). As usual, a smug sense of self-satisfaction to the winner....
Posted by Darren Naish at 9:08 AM • 52 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 26, 2011
Category: mammalogy
I really enjoyed the long and involved debate that followed my article on the small elephant depicted on the wall of Rekhmire's tomb. Thank you to (just about) everyone who contributed. As I tried to make clear in the...
Posted by Darren Naish at 12:43 PM • 66 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 23, 2011
Category: community
Welcome to part II of my musings on the 2010 blogging year. You'll need to have read the first part to make sense of it. The article you're reading now is extraordinarily long and I'd normally break up a piece...
Posted by Darren Naish at 10:29 AM • 35 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 21, 2011
Category: frivolous nonsense
Today, my friends, is January 21st 2011. Do you know what this means? It means (drumroll)... that Tet Zoo is five years old today. Wow. Five years. With apologies to those who've heard the story before, things started in 2006...
Posted by Darren Naish at 4:12 AM • 43 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 19, 2011
Category: mammalogy
One of the things that came up in the many comments appended to the article on Bob's painting of extinct Maltese animals was the famous Egyptian tomb painting of the 'pygmy mammoth'. You're likely already familiar with this (now...
Posted by Darren Naish at 8:52 AM • 85 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 17, 2011
Category: conservation
The big buzz here in Hampshire (southern England) at the moment is the recent arrival of a White-tailed eagle Haliaeetus albicilla. This magnificent raptor - it can have a wingspan of 2.4 m and is one of the biggest...
Posted by Darren Naish at 5:38 AM • 64 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 14, 2011
Category: mammalogy
It's well known that the islands of the Mediterranean were formerly home to an assortment of island endemics, all of which are now extinct. Most of the best known ones are mammals like pygmy elephants, pygmy hippos, pygmy megacerine deer...
Posted by Darren Naish at 6:28 AM • 42 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 12, 2011
Category: ornithology
I read a lot of books in 2010, and mostly enjoyed all of them. Among my favourites was Luis Chiappe's Glorified Dinosaurs: The Origin and Early Evolution of Birds, and in the lengthy review article below (currently in press...
Posted by Darren Naish at 5:59 AM • 79 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 10, 2011
Category: Mesozoic dinosaurs
Time to wrap up on the SJG special - make sure you see part I and part II first. Wow, I never thought I'd end up writing three long articles on this series of papers (hmm, a familiar theme)....
Posted by Darren Naish at 4:27 AM • 27 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 5, 2011
Category: Mesozoic dinosaurs
If you read the previous article on stegosaurs you'll know that a collection of papers devoted to examination of this fascinating group appeared last year (2010) in a special issue of Swiss Journal of Geosciences (SJG from hereon). These...
Posted by Darren Naish at 10:09 AM • 38 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
