
In pursuit of the Rook
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. His publications can be downloaded at darrennaish.wordpress.com. He has been blogging at Tetrapod Zoology since 2006. Check out the Tet Zoo podcast at tetzoo.com!

In pursuit of the Rook

Crocopocalypse exposed in public for the first time!

Scenes from the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival

Herring gull eats sea star, and other tales of larid gastronomy

The confusing diplospondylous tupilakosaurids

Dinosaurs and their exaggerated structures : species recognition aids, or sexual display devices?

More temnospondyls: gigantic, gharial-snouted archegosauroids and their spatulate-snouted kin

Trimerorhachid temnospondyls: numerous scale layers and gill-pouch brooding?

Trematosauroids, those gharial-snouted, marine temnospondyls

Welcome to the Squamozoic!

Jagged-toothed mystery monster; needs identifying

Daisy's Isle of Wight Dragon and why China has what Europe does not

Another meeting with the Hayling Island Jungle cat

Crocodiles of Africa, crocodiles of the Mediterranean, crocodiles of the Atlantic (crocodiles part VI)

Hunter and Barrett's A Field Guide to the Carnivores of the World

Kea, Kaka, Kakapo

The mystery mammal of Kayan Mentarang

Karl Shuker s The Encyclopaedia of New and Rediscovered Animals

Everybody loves glassfrogs

Tubenosed seabirds that shear the waves: of Calonectris, Lugensa, and Puffinus (petrels part VII)

Great tits: still murderous, rapacious, flesh-rending predators!

Crocodiles attack elephants

A new azhdarchid pterosaur: the view from Europe becomes ever more interesting

Glassfrogs: translucent skin, green bones, arm spines