The Tetrapod Zoology podcast lives again. Yes, episode 95 is here: It's Been Haulong? A year and a half of catchup! #TetZooCon regenerates into #DinoCon, 20 years of TetZoo, Haolong, Spinosaurus (URG!), and much more meandering and tangentiality... tetzoo.com/podcast
A humble request:
Does anybody have a screen recording of the cryptid British big cat panel from TetZooCon 2020?
I want to rewatch it to hopefully glean more firsthand sources on the subject.
#TetZooCon #DinoCon #paleontology
Couldn't make it to #DinoCon this year, but at least got a neighbouring distant cousin to #TetZooCon '23's lil' guy, and ancestors to the 24 big dudes, courtesy of @rubrennanart.bsky.social
Great fun & loads of fascinating things to learn at #DinoConUK at @exeter.ac.uk this weekend!
Great follow on to #TetZooCon
#paleontology #dinosaurs #palaeoart
Palaeoart workshop at TetZooCon 2024
People with banner at TetZooCon 2024, on a rooftop balcony in central London
Younger Earth merch at TetZooCon 2024
Kai Caspar talking dinosaur smarts at TetZooCon 2024
It follows the 11-year run of #TetZooCon, the Tetrapod Zoology Convention, which got successively bigger and busier and kept maxing out its venues (pics from the final 2024 TetZooCon). But even the biggest TetZooCon was tiny compared to #DinoConUK!
I picked her up at #TetZooCon a couple years ago! She was made by @thylacereal.bsky.social iirc
A photograph of two small plushies. One is a scarab beetle and the other is a clay tablet.
I’m coming! Never been to #TetZooCon but already worried I will be spending a lot in the vendor hall. Already have some niche plushies…
An introduction. My name’s Darren Naish (pronounced ‘naysh’) and I devised the idea of #DinoCon following the 11-year success of #TetZooCon, a London-based event that featured talks and events on matters relating to herpetology, speculative biology, dinosaurs, mammalogy, ornithology and more... cont
#Ceratosaurus I designed for last years #tetzoocon, but didnt get to print in time for it #Dinosaur #paleoart #sciart
If you enjoyed #TetZooCon, #DinoCon is already set to be far bigger, with more talks, more vendors... more attendees are booked so far than for the biggest of the TetZooCons. Info and tickets: dinocon.co.uk
A 1:1 Carnotaurus skull I made a couple of years ago. Zbrush sculpt, resin print. #sciart #paleoart #dinosaur #tetzoocon
Pages from the book, showing woodland person attacking snow person, and also meeting aquatic person. I've forgotten all their names and don't have time to check.
And I include the Seasons Greeting page as it's everyone's favourite. At #TetZooCon a few years back, Dougal was gifted a Christmas card by @edaphosaurus.bsky.social that featured the eponymous image on its front :) 4/4
We've only been selling #DinoCon tickets for just over a week... and it's already set to be bigger than the biggest #TetZooCon. For a reminder of what TetZooCon was like, see... tetzoo.com/blog/2024/10...
Hi. The #DinoCon predecessor - #TetZooCon - had an 11 year run, so I think we should work on the basis that DinoCon will indeed happen 2026. But no promises... we will see.
Hi everyone -- if you enjoyed #TetZooCon, here's a reminder that its descendant - #DinoCon - kicks off this August in Exeter, UK, and that tickets GO LIVE THIS FRIDAY. It's shaping up to be a great event. Be sure to check out the website here.... www.dinocon.co.uk
I finally go around to painting this Hypsilophodon model, sculpted by Paul Glynn (The Younger Earth) I bought at #tetzoocon
Way back in September 2024, we recorded a live episode of the Tetrapod Zoology #podcats / #Tetrapodcats at #TetZooCon -- and it has finally been released! Episode 94: Live at TetZooCon tetzoo.com/podcast/2025...
I thought I could share some photos from #tetzoocon . It was so cool, seriously considering dinocon next year!
At the last #TetZooCon we recorded an ep of the podcast in front of the audience. It hasn't been released because John forgot about it. But it's gonna be out soon.
2 lounging megalosaurus sculptures. One hand painted in green hues, the other sprayed with grey primer
#Megalosaurus models finally available at Scaled Beast. Hand Painted ones in short supply but adding more this weekend. Plenty of grey ones, primed and ready for painting!! #tetzoocon #dinosaur #sciart
DinoConUK flyer held in hand of Dr Natalia Jagielska.
If you've followed (or attended) any of the #TetZooCon content from recent years... we've evolved, and what's coming next will be much bigger! Join us in August 2025 for #DinoConUK @dinoconuk.bsky.social. The word is already out ...
A poster for TetZooCon featuring a screening of Why Dinosaurs.
We were honored to screen WHY DINOSAURS in the UK at this year’s #TetZooCon (next year’s DinoCon). Thank you, Darren Naish! @tetzoo.bsky.social
Comic Sketch of Grumpy the T.rex trying to dig out a teenaged Rick Marshal from a log pile. Panel 1: Grumpy pauses his assault as a protruding log catches his attention. Panel 2: Rick flips off Grumpy as his tail swings over the entrance of the log piles saying "Ha! What's the matter Grumpy, head too fat to come and take a piece of me? Next time you better bring a- Oh..." Panel 3: Rick pauses as he looks up terrified. Panel 4: Grumpy having returned with the log in his mouth, looking down at Rick through the gap and giving him a sinister grin.
"Land of the Lost - You Called him Stupid Again Didn't you?"
(A little #sketch i did as Dave Hone was giving his talk on #Tyrannosaur intelligence at #tetzoocon this year, plus grumpy being unnaturally smart is one of the few thing i really like in the remake)
An illustration of British naturalist and TV presenter Nigel Marven giving commentary on a recent Diplodocus kill made by a group of Allosaurus (right), all the while a young Big Al fast approaches from behind (left)
A printed version of the Illustration signed by Nigel Marven himself after TetZooCon 2023 reading "For CJ, This is super! Best wishes Nigel Marven"
"Nigel Marven, In Search of Big Al"
(Now, this one's a classic! even got this piece signed by the man himself) #art #walkingwithdinosaurs #paleoart #bigal #TetZooCon
Stock of Tetrapod Zoology: Book One inside a cardboard box.
Cover of Tetrapod Zoology: Book One. Black, white letters, with colour art by C M Kosemen, showing a motley of animals featured in the book: long-eared jerboa, olm, green lizard, snapping turtles, azhdarchid, eagle, shoebill and more.
C M Kosemen's draft versions of the cover, showing the animals in different compositions. Greenish background.
In early 2024, I purchased stock of Tetrapod Zoology: Book One and took them to #TetZooCon, where ALL copies sold. Because the book contains articles from 2006-2007, it occurred to me that much of the content is 'new' to modern readers. This inspired me to dig out the text for BOOK TWO, which --
caracara bending down to look into a space inside a rotting log.
same caracara, with closer view of its red-skinned face and yellow legs and feet, showing it peering into cavity in a log.
standing caracara, facing left, in enclosure at Marwell Wildlife.
Among my favourite birds are caracaras (we had an excellent talk about them at #TetZooCon 2024, from author and singer-songwriter Jonathan Meiburg). Here's a Southern/Crested caracara I watched at Marwell Wildlife over the weekend, getting into some neat poses while foraging. #raptors #birds
Trying out some paint on this #megalosaurus #tetzoocon #sciart
Chris Packham warns: Earth isn’t facing a mass extinction — it’s a mass “extermination.”
At #TetZooCon, Packham highlighted how this extinction is unique—marking the first time a single species is responsible for the collapse of biodiversity.
#activism #paleontology
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