After 20 Years, the Tetrapod Zoology Highlights — Tetrapod Zoology A look-back at some of my personal highlights from the two decades of Tetrapod Zoology…

We're shortly to exceed 23 comments at the new Tet Zoo article on 'highlights of the past 20 years'. Huge thanks to those who've left thoughts and made mention of their favourite articles :) Obvious mention of 'non-standard' hypotheses, SpecZoo, cryptozoology... tetzoo.com/blog/2026/1/... #TetZoo

Diprotodontians Forever: the Vombatiform Radiation, Part I — Tetrapod Zoology If you’re a regular reader here you might recall me making occasional lamentations about the near-absence of marsupial-themed content here. The recent Thylacoleo article was an unusual blip....

New at Tet Zoo: a rescued old (2011) article on vombatiform diprotodontians, the marsupial group that includes koalas and wombats .... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/11... #marsupials #FossilFriday #TetZoo

Screengrabs of 2008 Tetrapod Zoology article on functional anatomy.

Screengrabs of 2008 Tetrapod Zoology articles on functional anatomy.

Screengrabs of 2008 Tetrapod Zoology articles on porcupines, lizards, red pandas.

Old #TetZoo articles from April 2008 have been added to the WIP list (darrennaish.wordpress.com/tetrapod-zoo...); they include my several write-ups of that month's 'Modern Approaches to Functional Anatomy' meeting organised by @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social, great fun. Also pandas and amphibaenians!

Cloudrunners and Other Cloud Rats of the Philippines — Tetrapod Zoology rats, rat, Muridae, murids, rodents, Rodentia, mammalogy, Philippines, mammals of the Philippines, Philippine rodents, Philippine mammals, Philippines mammals, Crateromys, cloudrunner, cloudrunners, c...

Are there more cloudrunner rats to find? It looks likely.... Cloudrunners and Other Cloud Rats of the Philippines, a #TetZoo article from 2020 on a very special group of #rodents ... tetzoo.com/blog/2020/6/...

Screengrabs of sea monster articles from Tet Zoo archives, showing photos and text.

Screengrabs of sea monster articles from Tet Zoo archives, showing photos and text.

Have continued to add links to old #TetZoo archives (now only available at wayback machine, and usually in incomplete form), this time adding 2008 sea monster articles.... darrennaish.wordpress.com/tetrapod-zoo...

#art #drawing #illustration #sketch #artwork #artist #portrait #portraitdrawing #portraitart #darrennaish #paleontologist #dino #dinosaur #dinosaurs #paleoart #tetzoo

Map of DinoCon Vendor Hall with Stall 16 arrowed and showing TetZoo logo (a Spinosaurus against blue shapes).

Yes, there is #TetZoo merch... and yes we have a stall at #DinoConUK! T-shirts, mugs, numerous dinosaur stickers, badges and also books and more. Find us in the Vendor Hall!

Tetrapod Zoology ver 4’s 7th Birthday — Tetrapod Zoology Today is July 31st 2025… do you know what this means?

Tetrapod Zoology ver 4 - the independent version, hosted at a site we built to house the podcast - just hit its 7th birthday. Thanks to those who visit, comment, and support the cause :) tetzoo.com/blog/2025/7/... #TetZoo #blogs #blogging

TetZoo badges, t-shirts and more.

dinosaur-themed stickers by TetZoo.

Just some of the #TetZoo merch we'll be selling from our stall at @dinoconuk.bsky.social on Aug 16th-17th... available while stocks last! #DinoConUK #dinosaurs

Dinosaur-themed stickers

Just some of the #TetZoo merch we'll be selling from our stall at @dinoconuk.bsky.social ... available while stocks last! #DinoConUK #dinosaurs

Tetrapod Zoology Podcast — Tetrapod Zoology

Your regular reminder that there's a Tetrapod Zoology podcast and that ONE DAY we hope to get to episode 100! #Dinosaurs, #palaeoart, obscure animals, #cryptozoology, #monsters, general nonsense. Back-catalogue at .... tetzoo.com/podcast #podcasts #podcasting #TetZoo

An arrangement of TetZoo merch, t-shirts at the back, and a mug, badges, stickers and more in front.

Yes, we will have #TetZoo merch at #DinoConUK @dinoconuk.bsky.social! Be sure to visit the TetZoo stall and pick up t-shirts, totes, badges, stickers and more :) See you in Exeter in a few weeks (Aug 16th-17th). Tickets at dinocon.co.uk

World Turtle Day 2025! — Tetrapod Zoology It’s World Turtle Day, and what kind of person doesn’t love and admire turtles?!

World Turtle Day was last week but the comments in this #TetZoo article are still active. What are #turtles - are they archosauromorphs? And why is western Europe so terrible in terms of turtle diversity? tetzoo.com/blog/2025/5/... #herpetology

The Dodo in Life — Tetrapod Zoology dodo, Dodos, Raphus, Raphus cucullatus, Raphidae, extinct birds, birds, ornithology, pigeons, dodobird, extinct bird, bird extinction, flightless birds, flightless pigeons, Erroll Fuller, Julian Hume,...

For more on the Dodo, check out this 2020 #TetZoo article I wrote on its life appearance... tetzoo.com/blog/2020/7/...

Suburban Camera Trapping, Week 1 — Tetrapod Zoology Let’s experiment with camera trapping!

Numerous thoughts on urban and suburban wildlife - in the UK, continental Europe and Asia, and the US too - have now been shared at the new #TetZoo article on my camera-trapping results. Thanks to contributors :) tetzoo.com/blog/2025/5/... #urbanwildlife

Well basically this is everyday, but I think of lots of stuff, well entire bangers of sentences of me eloquently & elegantly explaining, under my rather salient vocabulary of my own volition, the several niche sections of macro topics I’m into, like especially tetrapod zoology, #TetZoo & similar!

Both books stood next to each other in an office.

My let's-read-all-the-hominin-books-I-own project continues since I've just finished Mary Leakey's 1984 Disclosing the Past: An Autobiography (article on #TetZoo coming soon) and am now working through Harry Shapiro's 1974 Peking Man. #books #hominins

The Fate of the Woolly Long-Nosed Armadillo of Peru — Tetrapod Zoology One of my favourite mammal assemblages of all is Xenarthra, the ‘strange joint’ group that includes the remarkable and odd anteaters, sloths and armadillos…

I really like xenarthrans, yet I've published comparatively little on them at Tet Zoo. Aiming to change that this year, and we start with #ARMADILLOS, specifically long-nosed ones, specifically hairy long-nosed ones .... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/4/... #mammals #TetZoo #Xenarthra

Racerunner Lizards of the World Unite, New for 2025! — Tetrapod Zoology 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...

We have reader comments on the new #TetZoo racerunner article. Very very specific comments on pectoral osteology, but comments nonetheless! tetzoo.com/blog/2025/4/... #reptiles #squamates #herpetology

Hacks Vs Wildlife: the Eternal Vilification of Gulls — Tetrapod Zoology Every summer, here in the UK, it’s the same. “CRAZED KILLER SEAGULL ATTACKED MY BABY”, “PSYCHO SEAGULL’S REIGN OF TERROR”, “EXPERT SAYS PUPPIES AND KIDS COULD BE NEXT”. It’s almost as if hack journali...

As we head toward the UK summertime, you can guarantee what our wretched tabloid press will say about #GULLS. On that note, some new comments just appeared at this classic #TetZoo article from 2019... tetzoo.com/blog/2019/7/...

Racerunner Lizards of the World Unite, New for 2025! — Tetrapod Zoology 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...

The very excellent Eurasian racerunner #lizards - the Eremias species - include viviparous species, are either 'out of Africa' or 'primitively Eurasian', and vary a lot in terms of microhabitat specialisation. A #TetZoo review ... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/4/... #herpetology #reptiles #squamates

Speculative Zoology Grand and Photoreal: Boulay and Steyer's Demain, les Animaux du Futur — Tetrapod Zoology Having recently republished an old, classic article on Speculative Zoology – that based around a 2014 interview with After Man creator Dougal Dixon – it seemed appropriate to republish anoth...

#TetZoo article on the #SpecZoo book Demain, Les Animaux du Futur, has ended up with around 30 reader comments, which is great. On SpecZoo scenarios in general, birds vs bats, translated editions, and more .... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/4/...

Speculative Zoology and the World of After Man; an Interview With Dougal Dixon — Tetrapod Zoology Time for more Spec Zoo at Tet Zoo!

The #TetZoo Dougal Dixon #AfterMan article now has 20 reader comments. Do come and interact if After Man (or other Dixonian works) were inspirational to yourself :) tetzoo.com/blog/2025/3/... #SpecZoo

Montage of screengrabs showing old Tet Zoo pinniped articles.

Montage of screengrabs showing old Tet Zoo pinniped articles.

Just trawled around in wayback machine in an effort to find intact versions of the old #TetZoo #pinniped articles. Takes a lot of searching but able to retrieve most (but not all) of them. Go to tetzoo.com/blog/2025/3/... for new links. #marinemammals

Adrian Shine's A Natural History of Sea Serpents — Tetrapod Zoology Sea monsters (or sea serpents; same thing) have been covered here a fair amount over the years. And thanks to a brand-new book, it’s time to cover them once more…

New at Tetrapod Zoology: a long review of Adrian Shine's very impressive new Whittles Publishing book on #SeaMonsters, one that should be read by everyone interested in #cryptozoology but also in marine wildlife more broadly.... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/3/... #monsters #TetZoo #seaserpents

News From the Pond's Edge: Spawnwatch 2025 — Tetrapod Zoology It is once more than time of year when the lone amphibian species here – the Common frog Rana temporaria  – gathers to breed in ponds and pools. How are things going this year?

Bringing us up to date, a report on News From Pond 2, where over 60 Common frogs and currently busy fighting, competing and spawning. Will 2025 be a record, exceeding '24 in spawn clutches? tetzoo.com/blog/2025/2/... #frogs #amphibians #TetZoo

Tet Zoo Reviews Zoos: Tama Zoological Park, Tokyo — Tetrapod Zoology It’s time once more to do a zoo review…

Next up... a delayed review of Japan's Tama Zoological Park at the edge of Tokyo, a huge and impressive zoo that houses MOLES, King cheetah, numerous ibises, Golden takin and tons more. Over 40 reader comments add much additional info... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/2/... #zoos #TetZoo

Yowies and the Marsupial Hominoid Hypothesis – Neil Frost’s Fatfoot: Encounters With A Dooligahl — Tetrapod Zoology Let’s look at a remarkable, cryptozoology-themed book, published in 2023…

What's been happening at Tetrapod Zoology during February 2025? A brief thread. The month started with brief thoughts on the very weird, very FAT book Fatfoot, which is all about the 'marsupial hominoid' hypothesis. Yes, you read that right... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/2/... #TetZoo #cryptozoology

Tet Zoo Reviews Zoos: Tama Zoological Park, Tokyo — Tetrapod Zoology It’s time once more to do a zoo review…

The Tetrapod Zoology article on Japan's Tama Zoological Park is still accruing comments, the active conversation there now with around 40 contributions. If interested in #zoos (especially those in Asia), do come and contribute :) tetzoo.com/blog/2025/2/... #animals #TetZoo #zoology

Death by Falling Rocks and Trees — Tetrapod Zoology Long-term readers might recall the book manuscript – written many years ago now – in which I wrote a whole load of text on death, disease and disaster in the animal world. That book had to be abandone...

Planet Earth is dangerous. Sometimes, things fall down and animals get killed. Let's look at cases of wild animals getting killed via falling rocks and trees. TW: animal death :( tetzoo.com/blog/2019/5/... #TetZoo #zoology