Today brings the sad news that British palaeontologist Dr Angela Milner has died following a short illness. I’ve heard this news from several friends and colleagues, in particular from the Natural History Museum’s Dr Paul Barrett….
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…
Today sees the publication of a major new technical paper by myself, Mark Witton and Liz Martin-Silverstone, titled ‘Powered flight in hatchling pterosaurs: evidence from wing form and bone strength’ and appearing in Scientific Reports (Naish et al. 2021). Pass the champagne…
Yes, it’s time to review another famous English zoo…
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…
1999 is a long, long time ago…
Time to review another zoo: this time, ZSL Whipsnade!
“There’s no such thing as a pure herbivore”, the tortoise’s eye view…
Another belated book review! Yes, let’s look at…
How’s that long-term effort to review all the passerine bird groups of the world going, huh? Well, it’s not going well at all. So….
Oh bigfoot… I want to believe…
Let’s talk about Malawania!
Just a brief announcement: my next book - Dinopedia: A Brief Compendium of Dinosaur Lore - will be published by Princeton University Press later this year, and here’s a tiny bit of information about it…
Of Nannopterygius, Grendelius and more…
You’ve surely heard the recent news that a group of amateur researchers in Tasmania – led by a Mr Neil Waters – claimed (on 1st March 2021) to have photographed a group of living Thylacines Thylacinus cynocephalus….
I’ve often said that turtles (in the broadest, Americanesque, sense of the term) haven’t been sufficiently covered at TetZoo. Even today this remains true, despite efforts…
A (belated) review of one of the saddest and most remarkable tales in modern museum history…
It’s time to review the Migo once more…
On a terrifying ‘sea giant’ of the Cornish coast…
Yes, it’s true — on January 21st 2021, the blog Tetrapod Zoology marked its 15th birthday…
