‘Shanklin Croc’ and the Dawn of the Tethysuchian Radiation
Inspired by the recent publication here of thoughts on the new Koumpiodontosuchus paper… and by other work, in prep… I felt it appropriate t...
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20 of 21 episodesHunting Monsters is Ten Years Old
Yes, the time is right to discuss the possibility of an expanded, ten-year-anniversary edition of my 2016/2017 Arcturus book Hunting Monster...
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Koumpi the Wealden Croc: Tons of New Data and Phylogeny Resolved
A very long article on a very small croc…
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Gert van Dijk’s Wildlife on the Planet Furaha, an Outstanding Addition to the Spec Bio Genre
After teases and promotions extending over several years, I’m pleased to report that Wildlife on the Planet Furaha now exists in hard, physi...
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The Treerunners, ‘Strikingly Proportioned’ Arboreal Iguanians
It’s time again to rescue another squamate-themed article from the Tet Zoo articles. This one is devoted to the treerunners, obviously…
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Speculative Zoology’s 21st Century Redemption at the High Table: the 2025 Edition of Dougal Dixon’s The New Dinosaurs
Last year saw the appearance of a long-awaited second edition of Dougal Dixon’s The New Dinosaurs…
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Mary Leakey’s 1984 Disclosing the Past: Hominin-Themed Books, Part 2
It’s probably impossible to write about the history of fossil hominin discoveries in Africa and not discuss, or at least mention, the Leakey...
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Footless Urban Pigeons Suffer Untold Trials and Tribulations
Foot deformities are ubiquitous in urban pigeons – why?
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Spawnwatch 2026
Once again it is that time of year again, by which I mean… spawnwatch season, of course.
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After 20 Years, the Tetrapod Zoology Highlights
A look-back at some of my personal highlights from the two decades of Tetrapod Zoology…
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Two Full Decades of Tetrapod Zoology
The blog Tetrapod Zoology – connected in some way to just about everything that’s happened in my professional life since the mid-2000s – has...
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The Continuing Debate on Dinosaur Cognition
The dinosaur cognition debate continues…
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British Palaeontologist Richard Forrest, a Brief Obituary
Following the recent article here on the new, third edition of Ancient Sea Reptiles, it’s appropriate to report far sadder, more serious but...
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Ancient Sea Reptiles Goes to Third Edition!
Among my several recently published books is Ancient Sea Reptiles: Plesiosaurs, Ichthyosaurs, Mosasaurs & More, first published by the Natur...
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Diprotodontians Forever: the Vombatiform Radiation, Part I
If you’re a regular reader here you might recall me making occasional lamentations about the near-absence of marsupial-themed content here....
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Thylacoleo, the Incredible Marsupial Lion
Among the most striking and interesting of extinct mammals is the so-called marsupial lion of Australia, or Thylacoleo carnifex…
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The Life Appearance of Glyptodonts
For some time now I’ve been interested in what the glyptodonts – a group of highly modified, large or gigantic armadillos – looked like when...
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A Woolly Mammoth Primer
I’ve said before that proboscideans – the familiar group of placental mammals that includes living elephants and their many fossil relatives...
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The Amazing Giant Black Fossa
Is there a bigger, badder, blacker fossa alive in Madagascar?
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DinoCon 2025 Has Left the Building
A look back at August’s DinoCon 2025, our outstandingly successful first event!
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