
‘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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Darren Naish and John Conway talk all things tetrapod, and some things not.

Inspired by the recent publication here of thoughts on the new Koumpiodontosuchus paper… and by other work, in prep… I felt it appropriate t...

Yes, the time is right to discuss the possibility of an expanded, ten-year-anniversary edition of my 2016/2017 Arcturus book Hunting Monster...

A very long article on a very small croc…

After teases and promotions extending over several years, I’m pleased to report that Wildlife on the Planet Furaha now exists in hard, physi...

It’s time again to rescue another squamate-themed article from the Tet Zoo articles. This one is devoted to the treerunners, obviously…

Last year saw the appearance of a long-awaited second edition of Dougal Dixon’s The New Dinosaurs…

It’s probably impossible to write about the history of fossil hominin discoveries in Africa and not discuss, or at least mention, the Leakey...

Foot deformities are ubiquitous in urban pigeons – why?

Once again it is that time of year again, by which I mean… spawnwatch season, of course.

A look-back at some of my personal highlights from the two 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...

The dinosaur cognition debate continues…

Following the recent article here on the new, third edition of Ancient Sea Reptiles, it’s appropriate to report far sadder, more serious but...

Among my several recently published books is Ancient Sea Reptiles: Plesiosaurs, Ichthyosaurs, Mosasaurs & More, first published by the Natur...

If you’re a regular reader here you might recall me making occasional lamentations about the near-absence of marsupial-themed content here....

Among the most striking and interesting of extinct mammals is the so-called marsupial lion of Australia, or Thylacoleo carnifex…

For some time now I’ve been interested in what the glyptodonts – a group of highly modified, large or gigantic armadillos – looked like when...

I’ve said before that proboscideans – the familiar group of placental mammals that includes living elephants and their many fossil relatives...

Is there a bigger, badder, blacker fossa alive in Madagascar?

A look back at August’s DinoCon 2025, our outstandingly successful first event!

Like me, you are no doubt a big fan of sloths...