Right now, there’s a giant blue chicken in Trafalgar Square
I really like chickens. They are fascinating, beautiful, unbelievably diverse, complicated birds. Im academically interested in them. Oh, and we should probably stop eating them.
Tetrapod Zoology
Amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals - living and extinct
The Cryptozoologicon (Volume I): here, at last
My newest book Cryptozoologicon Volume I, co-authored with John Conway and C. M. “Memo” Kosemen is now available (alternatively, it can be ordered here from amazon) (Conway et al...
Tool use in crocodylians: crocodiles and alligators use sticks as lures to attract waterbirds
In recent years it has – I really, really hope – become better known that non-bird reptiles (turtles, lizards, snakes, crocodiles, alligators and so on) are not boring dullards, but behaviourally complex creatures that get up to all sorts of interesting things...
The amazing Hook Island sea monster photos, revisited
Long-time readers of Tet Zoo might remember Sea Monster Week: a series of articles I ran at Tet Zoo ver 2 back in 2008. 2008? That’s, like, years ago.
Flight of the Microraptor
The small feathered dinosaur Microraptor could probably glide - but how well? We aimed to find out...
Odobenocetops: ridiculous ‘walrus whales’
I always hoped that, one day, I’d have time to talk at length about Odobenocetops, one of the strangest and most exciting of fossil cetaceans.
The remarkable life appearance of the Woolly rhino
One of the Pleistocene mammals depicted without fail in popular books – encyclopedias of prehistoric life and the like – is the Woolly rhinoceros Coelodonta antiquitatis (the species name is written antiquus in many sources)...
Coelophysoid theropods 101
Due to the usual frustrating inability of being unable to finish any of the in-prep Tet Zoo articles (and… I’ve been away), I give you the following short article.
A tongue-wrestling interlude, from the azhdarchids
I’d like to talk to you about the recently announced ‘Yeti DNA’ discovery just featured on British television; I’d like to talk to you about tail feathers in Cretaceous maniraptoran dinosaurs (O’Connor et al...
The Cheer pheasant
The gamebird clade – properly called Galliformes – includes an enormous number of obscure and weird species that you rarely hear much about, nor see in zoological collections (unless you’re an obsessive who’s made a point of tracking them down)...
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