Speculative Zoology Grand and Photoreal: Boulay and Steyer's Demain, les Animaux du Futur

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…

Curtis, Swisher and Lewin’s Java Man of 2000: Hominin-Themed Books, Part 1

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…

Heptasteornis, My Beloved; Alvarezsaurids in Europe, the Backstory

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…

My Weird 2000 Paper on Tree-Climbing Dinosaurs

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…

A New Theropod Dinosaur Assemblage from the Older Part of the English Wealden

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…