DinoCon 2026, a Giant Event at Hilton Birmingham Metropole
Bigger, better… in fact, around twice the size of DinoCon 2025. Let’s discuss what happened at DinoCon 2026…
Tetrapod Zoology
The world’s best zoology blog, now in its 20th year of operation and fourth iteration.
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Snake Men by Zach St. George
A fun, fast-paced new book covers taxonomic vandalism in the reptile world, and one notorious vandal in particular…
A Look at the Razorbill, a Striking Seabird
Among the most handsome and striking of seabirds is the Razorbill.
The Amphiuma Head and Skull
Salamanders have been covered at Tet Zoo on numerous occasions, there being articles on newts and other salamandrids, plethodontids (lungless salamanders) of numerous sorts, and also ambystomatids (the group that includes the Axolotl and other mole salamanders). It’s the very weird salamanders that bring in the most interest, however, and today we’re going to look briefly at them again….
Crocodylomorph Empire 2026
Long-time readers of Tet Zoo will perhaps be aware of my efforts, beginning in 2012 or something like that, to depict in a montage the diversity of crocodylomorphs extinct and extant….
Voles 101
I feel the need to publish something new on rodents, and with no time to produce anything lengthy or new, here are brief thoughts on one of my favourite rodent groups: voles!
The Tenth Anniversary Edition of Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved
I am extremely pleased to announce that my Dinosaurs: How They Lived & Evolved – the Natural History Museum, London’s flagship dinosaur book, co-authored with Professor Paul Barrett – is once again in print, once again as a new edition…
Tet Zoo Reviews Zoo: Oregon Zoo
It’s time for another article in my Tet Zoo Reviews Zoos series, and this time we look at a zoo in that troubled and terrifying nation known as the USA, specifically in the north-western state of Oregon…
‘Shanklin Croc’ and the Dawn of the Tethysuchian Radiation
Inspired by the recent publication here of thoughts on the new Koumpiodontosuchus paper… and by other work, in prep… I felt it appropriate to rescue another article from the archives, specifically from ver 3. Here we go…
Hunting Monsters is Ten Years Old
Yes, the time is right to discuss the possibility of an expanded, ten-year-anniversary edition of my 2016/2017 Arcturus book Hunting Monsters …
Koumpi the Wealden Croc: Tons of New Data and Phylogeny Resolved
A very long article on a very small croc…
Gert van Dijk’s Wildlife on the Planet Furaha, an Outstanding Addition to the Spec Bio Genre
After teases and promotions extending over several years, I’m pleased to report that Wildlife on the Planet Furaha now exists in hard, physical form, and it was very much worth the wait….
The Treerunners, ‘Strikingly Proportioned’ Arboreal Iguanians
It’s time again to rescue another squamate-themed article from the Tet Zoo articles. This one is devoted to the treerunners, obviously…
Speculative Zoology’s 21st Century Redemption at the High Table: the 2025 Edition of Dougal Dixon’s The New Dinosaurs
Last year saw the appearance of a long-awaited second edition of Dougal Dixon’s The New Dinosaurs…
Mary Leakey’s 1984 Disclosing the Past: Hominin-Themed Books, Part 2
It’s probably impossible to write about the history of fossil hominin discoveries in Africa and not discuss, or at least mention, the Leakeys…
Footless Urban Pigeons Suffer Untold Trials and Tribulations
Foot deformities are ubiquitous in urban pigeons – why?
Spawnwatch 2026
Once again it is that time of year again, by which I mean… spawnwatch season, of course.
After 20 Years, the Tetrapod Zoology Highlights
A look-back at some of my personal highlights from the two decades of Tetrapod Zoology…
Two Full Decades of Tetrapod Zoology
The blog Tetrapod Zoology – connected in some way to just about everything that’s happened in my professional life since the mid-2000s – has now been in operation for an absurd twenty years. Here, we look back at the TetZooniferous events of 2025…
The Continuing Debate on Dinosaur Cognition
The dinosaur cognition debate continues…