This article is too late to be at all useful when it comes to Christmas gift recommendations…
The Quetz Monograph Lives and Other News on Azhdarchid Pterosaurs
Greater Noctules: Specialist Predators of Migrating Passerines, Revisited
For reasons, I still have no time at all for blogging, alas. And thus I once again give you an article from the archives. This time, one of my favourite BAT articles. I’ve covered bats a fair bit at TetZoo (see below for links), but this remains one of the most memorable (it has received some minor updates relative to its initial outing, which occurred here in 2006 at ver 1)…
Release the Fossil Pronghorns!!
Here we are with another effort to recycle material from the TetZoo archives (and invariably ruined by its hosters and hence made unavailable to those who might consult it). This time: a revamped version of my fossils pronghorns article, first published at ver 2 back in 2010 (an original is here)…
Santa Cruz’s Duck-Billed Elephant Monster, Definitively Identified
Pete Dunne and Kevin T. Karlson’s Gulls Simplified: A Comparative Approach to Identification
What Was the Montauk Monster? A Look Back to 2008
You Have Your Giant Fossil Rabbit Neck All Wrong, Redux
The Snouters or Rhinogradentians, a Brief Review
Two New Spinosaurid Dinosaurs from the English Cretaceous
Painted-Snipes
Cronch Cats, Beasts of Gévaudan, Dinosauroids, Mesozoic Art and Much More: TetZooMCon 2021 in Review
Humanoid Dinosaurs Revisited Again: Russell and Séguin’s Dinosauroid at (Nearly) 40 Years Old
TetZooMCon 2021 Tickets Are Live
Yes, once again we’re holding a zoom-based annual convention, structured much like the very successful event of last year. I give you: TetZooMCon 2021, happening Friday September 3rd…
Given that we organisers (myself and John Conway) live in the UK, we’re working in UK time zones. Our apologies to those of you on the other side of the world. Things kick off at 4pm, and we intend to run until late with both a palaeoart workshop, an informal discussion session and an unstructured after-party occurring during the evening. Speakers include Kannan Raja (on citizen science and the herpetofauna of Singapore), Riley Black (on the palaeobiology of the predatory fossil mammal Patriofelis), Elsa Panciroli (on mammal evolution and her new book Beasts Before Us), and myself (on the dinosauroid and its backstory).
Myself and Duane Nash (yes, we’re different people) will be having a discussion about Duane’s ideas as portrayed in his book Dinosaur Enlightenment. There will also be a few surprise announcements. One or two other things have yet to be confirmed: for breaking news, check the comments here or follow #TetZooMCon on Twitter.
Caption: art shown here is (l to r) by Raven Amos, Gabriel Ugueto and John Conway.
As you’ll recall if you were there, last year’s TetZooMCon was a huge success and ran surprisingly smoothly. I wrote about it here. It’s difficult to predict whether as many people will attend as did last year (over 350), but already tickets are selling well. Get yours here.
That about sums things up for now. We look forward to seeing you on September 3rd!
Dr Angela Milner and the Discovery of Baryonyx
Cases of Over-Enthusiastic Swallowing, Often (But Not Always) Ending in Death
Back in 2009 (at TetZoo ver 2, the ScienceBlogs version) I ran a series of articles on ‘over-enthusiastic swallowing’: on cases where carnivorous animals have died from choking. You see, carnivorous animals of many sorts often die from choking, and field biologists have done a good job of recording many such instances in the literature. In the interests of having this material available once more, rather than corrupted and only findable via the wayback machine, I’ve here gathered those articles together, and here they are again…
Baby Pterosaurs Were Excellent Fliers and Occupied Different Niches From Their Parents
TetZoo Reviews Zoos: Bristol Zoo
Reminiscing About Walking With Dinosaurs, Part 2
In 1999, the BBC TV series Walking With Dinosaurs aired on British TV. In the previous article, I discussed some of my recollections as a ‘witness’ of unfolding events. In this second article, we continue…
