December 22, 2011

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A Merry Tet Zoo Christmas

By Darren Naish

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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.

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!

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