Salamanders have been covered at Tet Zoo on numerous occasions, there being articles on newts and other salamandrids, plethodontids (lungless salamanders) of numerous sorts, and also ambystomatids (the group that includes the Axolotl and other mole salamanders). It’s the very weird salamanders that bring in the most interest, however, and today we’re going to look briefly at them again….
Long-time readers of Tet Zoo will perhaps be aware of my efforts, beginning in 2012 or something like that, to depict in a montage the diversity of crocodylomorphs extinct and extant….
Inspired by the recent publication here of thoughts on the new Koumpiodontosuchus paper… and by other work, in prep… I felt it appropriate to rescue another article from the archives, specifically from ver 3. Here we go…
A very long article on a very small croc…
It’s time again to rescue another squamate-themed article from the Tet Zoo articles. This one is devoted to the treerunners, obviously…
Once again it is that time of year again, by which I mean… spawnwatch season, of course.
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…
As a regular reader of Tetrapod Zoology, you will know I’m sure that I made some effort in 2024 to rescue ruined squamate-themed articles from vers 2 and 3 of the blog…
It’s World Turtle Day, and what kind of person doesn’t love and admire turtles?!
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….
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?
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…
It's time once again to look at squamates…
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 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?
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…
