Mesozoic Art II, Palaeoart Portfolio for the 2020s

Among the most successful of books I’ve been involved in are those devoted to palaeoart. In particular, I’m thinking here of 2022’s Mesozoic Art, edited by Steve White and myself and published by Bloomsbury UK…

Crocodiles Attack Elephants Then, Now, and Still

Regular readers here will be familiar with my lamentations about the old, archived material from ver 2 (ScienceBlogs) and ver 3 (Scientific American). It’s been lost, destroyed, vandalized, paywalled, or some combination of those things. Today, something happened which has inspired me to rescue one of those articles from ver 3, specifically from 2013 (here’s the original). What inspired it, huh? Well, THIS DID…

Whales and Dolphins Around the Coasts of Europe, 2025

Once again, I’m back from time spent in the North Atlantic looking at wild cetaceans, specifically on a Bay of Biscay trip (a journey made between Plymouth in England and Santander in Spain) organised by the wildlife charity ORCA

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…