I’ve said before that proboscideans – the familiar group of placental mammals that includes living elephants and their many fossil relatives – have never been well served here at Tet Zoo…
Is there a bigger, badder, blacker fossa alive in Madagascar?
A look back at August’s DinoCon 2025, our outstandingly successful first event!
Like me, you are no doubt a big fan of sloths...
Among the most successful of books I’ve been involved in are those devoted to palaeoart. In particular, I’m thinking here of 2022’s Mesozoic Art, edited by Steve White and myself and published by Bloomsbury UK…
Might there have been hybrid dinosaurs in the deep geological past? If so, could we identify them from the fossil record? Let’s discuss…
In which I once more rescue an article from the broken Tet Zoo archives, this time from ver 3 at Sci Am, and specifically from November 2011…
Regular readers here will be familiar with my lamentations about the old, archived material from ver 2 (ScienceBlogs) and ver 3 (Scientific American). It’s been lost, destroyed, vandalized, paywalled, or some combination of those things. Today, something happened which has inspired me to rescue one of those articles from ver 3, specifically from 2013 (here’s the original). What inspired it, huh? Well, THIS DID…
Today is July 31st 2025… do you know what this means?
Once again, I’m back from time spent in the North Atlantic looking at wild cetaceans, specifically on a Bay of Biscay trip (a journey made between Plymouth in England and Santander in Spain) organised by the wildlife charity ORCA…
The fossil record is a cruel and fickle mistress, and there are a vast many fossil animals for which key data on lifestyle and biology is simply not preserved, or – at least – not known. Yet…
As a regular reader of Tetrapod Zoology, you will know I’m sure that I made some effort in 2024 to rescue ruined squamate-themed articles from vers 2 and 3 of the blog…
Once more, it’s time to look at armadillos, both at their diversity and at some aspects of their evolutionary history…
If you’ve read recent articles here, you’ll have seen the coverage I’ve been giving to armadillos…
It’s World Turtle Day, and what kind of person doesn’t love and admire turtles?!
Let’s experiment with camera trapping!
Let’s look at armadillos some more. Or, let’s look at more armadillos. I mean, let’s look more at armadillos. Whatever: armadillos! More.
One of my favourite mammal assemblages of all is Xenarthra, the ‘strange joint’ group that includes the remarkable and odd anteaters, sloths and armadillos…
It’s 2025, not 2024. But, as per last year, I still aim to rescue and republish the squamate-themed articles originally published at Tet Zoo ver 2 and 3, and today mostly ruined, paywalled, or removed by their hosters….
