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…