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Tetrapod Zoology ver 2 25 Jan 2007 | 06:58 am
It is done: Tetrapod Zoology is moving. Please go over to.... http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/ See you on the other side!
Goodbye blogspot.... 23 Jan 2007 | 01:36 pm
Remember I said that things were going to change? (go here, for example). Well, things are going to change. Please watch this space: it will take a few days to happen, but I will keep you posted. Why...
Happy first birthday Tetrapod Zoology (part II) 21 Jan 2007 | 02:15 pm
As discussed in the previous post, today ( January 21 2007 ) is Tetrapod Zoology’s first birthday. Hooray: more champagne, please. You’ll need to read part I to make sense of the following. Anyway, he...
Happy first birthday Tetrapod Zoology (part I) 21 Jan 2007 | 01:30 pm
On Saturday 21st January 2006 – that is, one year ago – I decided, entirely on a whim, to start my own blog. I’d been reading various people’s blogs for a while and it was on that night that the thoug...
The evolution of vampires 18 Jan 2007 | 01:17 pm
Coming soon: musings on a possible path to passerine parasitism. Also extinct plasma-quaffing microbats, and maybe pterosaurs (again). Update: go here, here or here...
Why I hate Darwin’s beard 13 Jan 2007 | 01:02 pm
Here’s a little known fact. Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882), the most important biologist of all time, did not spend his entire life as an old man. I despise stereotypes, especially those that are t...
Biggest sauropod ever (part…. II) 11 Jan 2007 | 11:45 am
In the previous post we looked at the obscure and poorly known mega-sauropod Amphicoelias fragillimus, described in 1878 on the basis of an incomplete but enormous dorsal vertebra and the distal end o...
Biggest…. sauropod…. ever (part…. I) 10 Jan 2007 | 12:11 pm
Finally, it’s that post on gigantic mega-sauropods you’ve all been oh-so-patiently waiting for. Note that I’ve decided to do a new thing, and have left the ‘teaser post’ on its own (rather than over-w...
Finally, some hot giant amphicoelian action 6 Jan 2007 | 10:37 am
[click for larger version. Diagram produced by Ken Carpenter] FULL POST TO COME LATER TODAY ( 9th Jan 2007 ) After years of suffering all-too-brief mentions, asides and speculative remarks, the oft-...
That’s no mystery carnivore (part II)… it’s a giant squirrel! 5 Jan 2007 | 09:07 am
In the previous post we looked anew at the controversial Kayan Mentarang animal: that reddish long-tailed Bornean mammal, photographed in 2003 by a World Wildlife Fund team, and announced to the world...