After a 13-year hiatus, the long-awaited sequel to James Cameron’s 2009 Avatar is out…
Robert Plot’s Lost Dinosaur Bone
The Ninth and Largest of the Tetrapod Zoology Conventions
Announcing Mesozoic Art, a Lavish New Volume on Modern Palaeoart
The giant, fantastically illustrated new volume Mesozoic Art: Dinosaurs and Other Ancient Animals in Art, edited and written by Steve White and myself and published by Bloomsbury Wildlife, is now on sale…
The Amazing Caecilians
I have elected to republish my articles on caecilians. (1) Because TetZoo always needs more amphibian coverage. (2) Because caecilians are awesome. The text you’re about to read - assuming you choose to continue - first appeared in 2008 (original here); I haven’t much updated it. Here we go…
The Slightly Surprising Diversity of Zebras, Part 1
Tetrapod Zoology at the United Nations Science Summit 2022
Today (September 27th 2022), I’m speaking at the United Nations Science Summit panel Knowing and Protecting Life on Earth Starts with Natural History and Science Innovation…
I don’t have time today to talk about the presentation itself (that will come later), but I make several points: on education and outreach, on accessibility of knowledge, on the importance of a historical approach to natural history, and on the universal appeal of amazing animals to all people of all backgrounds. I’m one of a team of people on this panel; the others are highly respected experts on biodiversity, conservation and nature writing: namely Dr Ursula Valdez (tropical avian ecologist and trans-cultural educator), Dr Tom Fleischner (author and director emeritus of The Natural History Institute), Dr Dita Cahyani (marine biodiversity scientist and innovator), and Dr Nalini Nadkarni (forest canopy pioneer and conservationist). The panel was arranged by Dr Seabird McKeon and Dr Michele Weber, and will be led and convened by Dr McKeon.
TetZooCon 2022 Is Go
I’m very happy to announce that tickets for TetZooCon 2022 are now on sale…
The Remarkably Weird Skeletons of Frogs
The Domes of Wisdom: an Asian Elephant Tale
Time for another article from the extensive TetZoo archives, this time a piece from ver 2, 2008 (original here). We begin with this interesting photo provided by my good friend Markus Bühler (of Bestiarium): it shows a bull Asian elephant Elephas maximus at Hagenbeck Zoo, Hamburg…
Legend of the Black Dog
Tiny Frogs and Giant Spiders: Best of Friends
Surprising Diet of the House Sparrow
Four Years of Tetrapod Zoology ver 4
Domestic Horses of Africa
I’ve written a fair amount about HORSES at TetZoo, predominantly at versions 2 and 3. For reasons, I now aim to reproduce it here at ver 3. We start with a article I first published in 2015 (original version here)…
The Eotyrannus Monograph Is Finally Published
Hartebeest, Long-Faced Antelopes of Many Forms
In another effort to rescue old TetZoo material from the vandalized archives of ver 2 and 3, here’s a slightly revamped version of a 2009 article on hartebeest (the original version is here)…
