Tet Zoo ver 3 - the Sci Am incarnation of this august and influential institution - has now been going for about 10 months, and a moderately respectable 78 articles have appeared on the blog so far (excluding this one). The vast majority have been lengthy, referenced, heavily illustrated articles - no brief, picture-of-the-day-style contributions or lame rehashings of press releases, thank you very much, and also comparatively little in the way of short contributions in general.
One of the major negative points of the Sci Am blog format is that navigating to older article is not at all easy. In fact it seems about impossible since there's no date-arranged archive or useful list of categories in the sidebar or anything like that. I've suggested behind the scenes that a site-wide rehaul is needed, but no news yet. In fact, as many of you regular readers will know, there's a lot not to like about the Sci Am blog platform, not only with regard to the site's appearance and navigability, but also with respect to the commenting and login system. I don't want to start whining though.

Terrifying tree-kangaroo rendition, from Augusto Vigna Taglianti's 1979 book The World of Mammals (Sampson Low).
If you haven't been here from the start, what might you have missed? Well, quite a bit. Topics covered here since July 2011 include the neck posture of giant extinct Mediterranean rabbits, a (still incomplete) series of articles on east European frogs and toads, that notorious episode involving the Telegraph newspaper and the Loch Ness monster, sunbathing postures in birds, my write-up of the ZSL cryptozoology meeting (the filmed talks should be online some time soon, by the way), articles on peccary biting behaviour, entelodonts, roadkill, Neotropical jays, cattle, obscure domestic pig breeds, hummingbirds, the 'tree-kangaroos come first' hypothesis, vombatiform marsupials, and a fair bit about Mesozoic dinosaurs, pterosaurs and marine reptiles. The toads series is still chugging along slowly in the background (and, yeah yeah, petrels, temnospondyls etc. etc. too). Below please find a list of all articles that have been published here between July 2011 and the end of October 2011 (it takes so long to embed all the links that I ended up giving up on the idea of listing ALL the articles that have appeared here so far). If there's something you ever wanted to say on those articles but never did, now might be a good idea to get it seen (yet another major negative point on the Sci Am blog platform - we have no 'recent comments' section, so any comment added anew to an old article is missed by anyone not reading that article).

Mehmet Kosemen's tongue-in-cheek suggestion that crown-Archosauria should be renamed Awesomes, as encapsulated on a (pre-Nesbitt) simplified cladogram. Share with your friends. Designed to offend those who don't work on crown-archosaurs.
Many of the topics covered below will be revisited when time allows. There's a lot more to do on marsupials, for example... umm, oh yeah, and on just about everything else. A while back I happened to ask people on facebook what they wanted to see more of on Tet Zoo. Note to start with that this doesn't matter in any case - as I always say, I blog for me, so you get what I'm interested in. Anyway, the suggestions were all over the place. Predictably, some people said "less dinosaurs, less pterosaurs (since they get written about a great deal already), let's have more hoofed mammals, more rodents". But a larger number of people said "more dinosaurs, more pterosaurs". There were also requests for obscure Palaeozoic synapsids and such, and I can totally understand that. Anyway, I hope that the list below is useful for the purposes of navigation to some of the older stuff, if for nothing else. So, job done. Yikes, must get back to work.
- Welcome to Tetrapod Zoology ver 3
- You have your giant fossil rabbit neck all wrong
- In pursuit of Romanian frogs (part I: Bombina)
- Cryptozoology at the Zoological Society of London. Cryptozoology: time to come in from the cold? Or, Cryptozoology: avoid at all costs?
- In pursuit of Romanian frogs (part II: WESTERN PALAEARCTIC WATER FROGS!!)
- Dryosaurids 101
- Dear Telegraph: no, I did not say that about the Loch Ness monster
- Sunbathing birds
- In pursuit of Romanian frogs (part III: brown frogs)
- Obscure Mesozoic birds you’ll only know about if you’re a Mesozoic bird nerd: Jibeinia luanhera
- Big birds in the Cretaceous of Central Asia: say hello to Samrukia
- Prediction confirmed: plesiosaurs were viviparous
- A day at London’s Grant Museum of Zoology
- Why putting your hand in a peccary’s mouth is a really bad idea
- Those giant killer pigs from hell aren’t pigs
- Dead animals at the roadside
- Inside Nature’s Giants… series 3! Camel!!
- The toads series comes to SciAm: because Africa has toads too
- Obscure, extravagant tropical crows
- Frankly, cattle are awesome
- 20-chromosome toads
- Vertebrate palaeontology at Lyme Regis: of ‘All Yesterdays’, the ‘Leathery Winged Revolution’, and Planet Dinosaur
- Dinosaurs at SVPCA – no Mesozoic non-avialan theropods, thank you very much – and what about those marine reptiles?
- Mystery mammal, badly photographed
- A baby sea-serpent no more: reinterpreting Hagelund’s juvenile Cadborosaurus
- The Mulefoot and other syndactyles: not all pigs are cloven-hoofed
- Three remarkable hummingbird discoveries
- Hoatzins are no longer exclusively South American and once crossed an ocean
- The seemingly endless weirdosity of the Milu
- Artiodactyls and steep slopes, and a new banner for Tet Zoo
- The ‘Tree-Kangaroos Come First’ hypothesis
- In support of Scientific Triassicism: Sues and Fraser’s Triassic Life on Land: the Great Transition
- Of koalas and marsupial lions: the vombatiform radiation, part I
- Marsupial tapirs, diprotodontids, wombats and others: the vombatiform radiation, part II
UPDATE: courtesy of Marko 'Lev' Bossche, here are the others. So, this article now includes links to ALL Tet Zoo ver 3 articles. Excellent. Thanks loads, Marko (thanks to the other individuals who sent compiled lists as well, your kind help is much appreciated).
- Tet Zoo highlights 2006-2011, from a Tet Zoo superfan
- The noble tradition of military goats
- What they’re saying about The Great Dinosaur Discoveries
- The discovery and early interpretation of Spinosaurus
- The Crowing crested cobra
- Dwarf mountain toads and the ones with the doughnut-headed tadpoles
- Gerhard Maier’s African Dinosaurs Unearthed: the Tendaguru Expeditions
- Paul Brinkman’s The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush
- The Wealden Bible: English Wealden Fossils, 2011
- All the whales of the world, ever (part I)
- All the whales of the world, ever (part II)
- The Second International Workshop on the Biology of Sauropod Dinosaurs (part I)
- A Merry Tet Zoo Christmas
- In case you forget, softshell turtles are insanely weird
- ‘Rigid Swimmer’ and the Cretaceous Ichthyosaur Revolution (part I)
- Did dinosaurs and pterosaurs practise mutual sexual selection?
- The Second International Workshop on the Biology of Sauropod Dinosaurs (part II)
- Because giraffes are heartless creatures, and other musings
- STOP ‘feeding’ the ducks
- Happy Birthday Tetrapod Zoology: SIX YEARS of blogging
- Happy 6th Birthday, Tetrapod Zoology (part II)
- The more you know about colubrid snakes, the better a person you are
- A symbiotic relationship between sunfish and… albatrosses? Say what?
- “San Diego Demonoid”: you mean that dead opossum?
- Love for Mastigodryas, Tomodon, Sordellina and all their buddies: you know it’s right
- Williams and Lang’s Australian Big Cats: do pumas, giant feral cats and mystery marsupials stalk the Australian outback?
- Identify the Baja California mystery whale carcass!
- Greg Paul’s Dinosaurs: A Field Guide
- Grampus griseus joins the globicephalines
- A peculiar whale skeleton is included fortuitously in the sci-fi movie Hunter Prey
- The gigantic, shark-toothed, small-flippered, long-bodied, sea-going predatory lizard that is Hainosaurus
- The carcass of a large, modern-day marine reptile!
- Because the world belongs to petrels (petrels part I)
- Living the pelagic life: of oil, enemies, giant eggs and telomeres (petrels part II)
- Petrels: some form-function ‘rules’, and pattern and pigmentation (petrels part III)
- Noel W. Cusa’s brilliant seabird drawings
- Alien viruses from outer space and the great Archaeopteryx forgery
- Amphisbaenians and the origins of mammals
- There are giant feathered tyrannosaurs now… right?
- Ryan et al.’s New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs: a review
- Chickens, 2012
- The Cadborosaurus Wars
- Eld’s deer: endangered, persisting in fragmented populations, and morphologically weird… but it wasn’t always so
- Tet Zoo ver 3, (part of) the story so far
- Raptor vs raptor