December 22, 2011
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Demands of work and all that mean that I need to sign off for Christmas now, so no time to blog about sauropod biology, toads, tadpoles, Cretaceous crocodilians (Salisbury & Naish 2011), mutual sexual selection in ornithodirans (Hone et al. 2011) or whatever else it was I was planning to blog about this month. There just hasn’t been the time. And I and colleagues have a neat, open-access paper coming out on January 3rd, so I need to get ready for that as well, argh! For now, I leave you with this….
And seeing as I can’t embed a version that takes up full page-width and is also available for enlargement, here’s a thumbnail version that can be enlarged by clicking. Sorry about all the dinosaur stuff lately by the way – it’s down to chronic lack of time and resultant non-generation of new content. Best wishes to all my readers, friends and correspondents. See you on the other side, and have a great Christmas and New Year. Remember to follow me on twitter: @TetZoo.
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Hone, D. W. E., Naish, D. & Cuthill, I. C. 2011. Does mutual sexual selection explain the evolution of head crests in pterosaurs and dinosaurs? Lethaia doi: 10.1111/j.1502-3931.2011.00300.x
Salisbury, S. W. & Naish, D. 2011. Crocodilians. In Batten, D. J. (ed.) English Wealden Fossils. The Palaeontological Association (London), pp. 305-369.
About the Author: Darren Naish is a science writer, technical editor and palaeozoologist (affiliated with the University of Southampton, UK). He mostly works on Cretaceous dinosaurs and pterosaurs but has an avid interest in all things tetrapod. He has been blogging at Tetrapod Zoology since 2006.
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Are you going to blog about all of those next month? Specially looking forward to your take on mutual sexual selection on dinosaurs and pterosaurs … and we mustnt forget the toads …
Link to thisHey, I do what I can
And the toads are never forgotten.
Darren
Link to thisYeah – MORE sexual selection!
Link to thisHave a great Xmas Darren
Have a great holiday, Darren!
Link to thisAnd a hippo gnu deer as well!
Link to thisMerry Christmas!
Link to thisLooking forward to hearing about those Cretaceous crocodilians when ya get back
Link to thisMerry Christmas. May your posts be plentiful once you get back.:)
Link to thisMerry Christmas, Darren.
And thanks for a year of tetrapodtacular posts!
Link to thisMerry Christmas to all, and may everyone have a wonderful 2012!
Link to thisAnd happy new year, which will apparently be a good one for bandits. Looking forward to your review of Feduccia’s new book (which I haven’t actually seen yet, but the press release is priceless).
Link to thisHappy New Year to all Tet Zoo readers! And just because Feduccia has a new book coming out, it doesn’t follow that the bandits will have a “good” year… I kind of doubt that I’ll be getting a copy of his book for review, as (without wanting to see at all biased) I think I already know what I’m going to say… just like everybody else.
Darren
Link to thisBut then, is it still possible to find an un-biased reviewer of Feduccia?
And happy new year to everyone from me, too.
Link to thisHappy Holidays! And thanks for the delightful blog.
Link to this“… I kind of doubt that I’ll be getting a copy of his [Feduccia's] book for review…”
There’s no harm in you asking for one. Who knows, the request might be mistaken for advance indication of a positive review and they might send it.
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