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 Leakeys…
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 now been in operation for an absurd twenty years. Here, we look back at the TetZooniferous events of 2025…
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 very relevant news...
Among my several recently published books is Ancient Sea Reptiles: Plesiosaurs, Ichthyosaurs, Mosasaurs & More, first published by the Natural History Museum in 2022…
If you’re a regular reader here you might recall me making occasional lamentations about the near-absence of marsupial-themed content here. The recent Thylacoleo article was an unusual blip. But…
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 alive….
I’ve said before that proboscideans – the familiar group of placental mammals that includes living elephants and their many fossil relatives – have never been well served here at Tet Zoo…
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...
Among the most successful of books I’ve been involved in are those devoted to palaeoart. In particular, I’m thinking here of 2022’s Mesozoic Art, edited by Steve White and myself and published by Bloomsbury UK…
Might there have been hybrid dinosaurs in the deep geological past? If so, could we identify them from the fossil record? Let’s discuss…
In which I once more rescue an article from the broken Tet Zoo archives, this time from ver 3 at Sci Am, and specifically from November 2011…
