Let’s look at armadillos some more. Or, let’s look at more armadillos. I mean, let’s look more at armadillos. Whatever: armadillos! More.
One of my favourite mammal assemblages of all is Xenarthra, the ‘strange joint’ group that includes the remarkable and odd anteaters, sloths and armadillos…
It’s 2025, not 2024. But, as per last year, I still aim to rescue and republish the squamate-themed articles originally published at Tet Zoo ver 2 and 3, and today mostly ruined, paywalled, or removed by their hosters….
Having recently republished an old, classic article on Speculative Zoology – that based around a 2014 interview with After Man creator Dougal Dixon – it seemed appropriate to republish another Tet Zoo classic…
Time for more Spec Zoo at Tet Zoo!
I haven’t written much on pinnipeds (seal, sea lions and walruses) here at ver 4. Here’s a recycling of material originally published at ver 2 way back in 2007, enjoy! I haven’t updated it…
Sea monsters (or sea serpents; same thing) have been covered here a fair amount over the years. And thanks to a brand-new book, it’s time to cover them once more…
If you were following the hominin-themed discoveries of that long-ago era known as the 1990s, you may well remember the hot news, published in Science in 1994 and 1996, on Homo erectus…
It’s true… DinoCon 2025 is go!
It is once more than time of year when the lone amphibian species here – the Common frog Rana temporaria – gathers to breed in ponds and pools. How are things going this year?
It’s time once more to do a zoo review…
Let’s look at a remarkable, cryptozoology-themed book, published in 2023…
You’re kidding… another year has passed? Yes, it’s late January, meaning that Tetrapod Zoology, the world’s best and most famous zoology-themed blog, has reached another birthday. As ever, I here take a very long-form look back at 2024….
When Tyrannosaurus rex was named by Henry Osborn in 1905, it was described alongside a second gigantic theropod, the armour-plated, Ceratosaurus-like Dynamosaurus imperiosus….
Among the most fascinating of Mesozoic theropods are the alvarezsaurids, a mostly small-bodied group of maniraptoran coelurosaurs characterized by modified, ‘pick-like’ forelimbs, a lightly built, shallow lower jaw, tiny, simple teeth and elongate, slender hindlimbs…
Every now and again – speaking here as someone who’s published some number of articles, books and technical papers – I find it worthwhile to look back at the things I’ve published in the past. For whatever reason, I’m doing that a fair amount right now, and right now I want to talk about a peculiar short paper I published in 2000…
What, you want more new theropod dinosaurs from the English Lower Cretaceous? Today sees the publication of our group’s ongoing analysis of theropod diversity within the Wealden Supergroup of southern England, and the results are pretty neat if I say so myself…
Chameleons* are among the most distinctive and charismatic of lizards, and a long list of anatomical features make them very unusual...
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…
