I like iguanian lizards…. who doesn’t? But among this enormous group are a great many lineages and species that you hardly ever hear anything about…
Late in the afternoon of Friday November 8th, my paper ‘The response to and rejection of Brian Ford’s Too Big to Walk, a 21st century effort to reinstate the aquatic dinosaur hypothesis’ saw digital publication in Historical Biology (Naish 2024)…
Regular readers of this blog might be aware of my book Hunting Monsters: Cryptozoology and the Reality Behind the Myths, initially published as an ebook in 2016 (Naish 2016) and appearing in hardcopy in 2017 (Naish 2017)…
I’m a big fan of the fact that hypotheses and discoveries are sometimes built piecemeal…
If you read the previous article – recapping the events of TetZooCon 2024 – you’ll know that things went well. But what was that cryptic mention toward the end of a tour?
Once again, it was recently that part of the year where a good number of science enthusiasts, natural historians, wildlife artists, scientists, researchers and interested members of the public gather in London for what we call TetZooCon: the annual Tetrapod Zoology Convention…
Once again it’s time to continue with my slow-burn zoo review series. I’ve just returned from a trip to Tokyo, you see, and while there I visited two zoos. Today we look at the first of them: Ueno Zoological Gardens (usually just called Ueno Zoo), located in Ueno Park in Taito City, central Toyko…
It's time once again to look at squamates…
As remarkable as it might sound, we’re presently in the midst of a ‘modern werewolf’ craze…
You’ll recall that my aim for 2024 is to rescue and revamp a good deal of old squamate-themed material from the Tet Zoo archives….
Ever keen to cover more of squamate diversity – Squamata = snakes and lizards – we here look at a really interesting group of mostly Mexican lizards. They’ve led us on a merry chase with respect to their diversity, taxonomy, phylogeny and historical biogeography…
It’s time to start preparing for TetZooCon – our annual Tetrapod Zoology Convention – and oh boy is a lot of stuff happening this year…
It’s time once more to visit the amazing world of squamates, and again we’re looking at snakes. Today: the extremely obscure Small-eyed or Ikaheka snake of New Guinea and some of the surrounding islands. What’s the deal with this unusual animal?
Within recent days, the world has learnt of the passing of American writer, author, artist and natural historian Richard Ellis (1938-2024), best known for his many works on marine animals and their environment...
It’s time once again to look at a very interesting bunch of snakes…
An updated look at a very special group of remarkable burrowing snakes…
Among the most poorly known of all squamate groups are the dibamids…
For some years now, a prolific amateur herpetologist has published an absolutely extraordinary number of new taxonomic names for snakes, lizards and other reptiles…
The intelligence of non-bird dinosaurs is one of the most-asked questions about their biology...
Regular readers will be aware of my intermittent, occasional articles on the zoos and other animal-based visitor centres of the world, published as and when I remember to do them...
