Darren Naish
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zoologist, natural historian, author Dr Darren Naish | Dinosaurs animals evolution | Co-leader of DINOCON 2025: UK's largest dinosaur-themed convention
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Sloth World, Part 1! There are a LOT of sloths, let's look at some recent developments... https://t.co/6YmILoHPTz
#mammals #fossils #xenarthrans
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oh great they’re trying to repeal the Marine Mammal Protection Act. lovely, just what the declining or just barely recovering whale and seal populations need
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Eternauta patagonica gen. et sp. nov.: a new ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur from the Upper Jurassic of Patagonia and its palaeoecological implications.
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Ophthalmosaurids were a globally distributed clade of ichthyosaurs that thrived from the Middle Jurassic to the early Late Cretaceous. Although their fossil record spans a wide palaeogeographic ran...
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Quantitative analysis of stem-palaeognath flight capabilities sheds light on ratite dispersal and flight loss | Biology Letters https://t.co/rXxlOEcHnC
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Learn what’s happening in AI and how you can leverage it. Get insights from Amjad Masad, Marc Benioff, Aravind Srinivas, Aaron Levie, and more.
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Assorted drawings I've done but maybe not shared. Fighting elephant seals, the Paleogene pantodont Coryphodon, a Black rough-necked monitor, and the Triassic trilophosaur Teraterpeton.
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#Croctober Day 12 Probably among the most obscure recently extinct crocodilians is Aldabrachampsus, a small (up to 2.5 meter) long animal of uncertain placement with a pair of rounded squamosal horns that lived on the Seychelles around 100.000 years ago
For #Croctober Day 11 we got Confractosuchus (art by Julius Csotonyi) Confracto once inhabited the Winton Formation of Australia, but unlike the tiny Isisfordia was sizable enough to even feed on dinosaurs. Which we know because we found the bones of an elasmarian in its stomach
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For #Croctober Day 11 we got Confractosuchus (art by Julius Csotonyi) Confracto once inhabited the Winton Formation of Australia, but unlike the tiny Isisfordia was sizable enough to even feed on dinosaurs. Which we know because we found the bones of an elasmarian in its stomach
Our fun fact for #Croctober day 10 Crocs even developed beaks at some point. Macelognathus (art by Scott Reid) is an early crocodylomorph from the Morrison Formation who's lower jaw tip was flattened and beak like with teeth further back in the jaw.
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The new Tet Zoo #sloths article has hit 23 comments...
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Like me, you are no doubt a big fan of sloths...
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Weekend scenes from camping - and a pub trip - in rural Buckinghamshire. The pub is The Royal Standard, well known due to its role in Hot Fuzz :)
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Forty years on, and #Dragonslayer from 1981 remains the best #dragon movie. A remastered version is available on YouTube.
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Fui dar um saltinho a Londres ver a exposição do Prehistoric Planet e recomendo imenso. 5 ⭐ Gostava muito que algo assim fosse possível em Portugal, mas enfim @TetZoo e @Framestore fizeram um trabalho extraordinário e espero ver em novembro a nova #prehistoricplanet #lightroom
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@TetZoo Coincidentally, I just visited the paleontology museum in Tarija, Bolivia - where sloths account for some 40% of the exhibit! (Lestodon among them, too)
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~3 years ago, I was invited to contribute to a book on the state of lions in Africa, an effort bringing together >30 scientists, conservationists, writers, and wildlife photographers. Very exciting that it is now about to be published by Penguin Books! https://t.co/OuWWML6qxg
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Sea Monsters at Dorset Museum & Art Gallery. Friday 21st November 2025, I’m talking Sea Monsters Past and Present at Dorset Museum, Dorchester. This will be followed by a book signing. Info and tickets at...
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Join esteemed author and palaeozoologist Dr Darren Naish as he explores our developing ideas about sea monsters past and present, a subject that combines developments in palaeontology with studies of...
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All Yesterdays at Paleoart Past and Present: the View from the UK. Tuesday 11th November 2025, I’m speaking about All Yesterdays in a workshop event happening before the 2025 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting in Birmingham, UK. Info at...
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Btw. for people not aware: if you post about your copy of social media (and tag me) you can get a free wish on a #paleostream. We don't have a marketing budget but I want to reward word of mouth =)
I've been meaning to review this amazing 2020 book... Europasaurus: Life on Jurassic Islands by Oliver Wings and Joschua Knüppe, published by Dr Friedrich Pfeil. It's astonishing, a triumph of #palaeoart that portrays its animals and environments in really innovative ways... 1/n
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Another friendly reminder that Europe was once graced by giant vipers of which the largest thus far seems to be Laophis crotaloides, a 3-4 m long beauty weighing maybe up to 30 kg. Considerably heavier than a king cobra, and just imagine the fangs and the venom yield!
Giant vipers in the Pliocene of Greece! Georgalis, G.L., Z. Szyndlar, B.P. Kear & M. Delfino. 2016. New material of Laophis crotaloides, an enigmatic giant snake from Greece, with an overview of the largest fossil European vipers. Swiss J Geosciences 109:103–116 #snake #fossil
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Meet the Sword Dragon of Dorset, Xiphodracon goldencapensis, an awesome new ichthyosaur we describe today! #fossilfriday The world’s most complete Pliensbachian marine reptile. Study: https://t.co/LTRkme6Fcl
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All Yesterdays at Paleoart Past and Present: the View from the UK. Tuesday 11th November 2025, I’m speaking about All Yesterdays in a workshop event happening before the 2025 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting in Birmingham, UK. Info at...
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Sea Monsters at Dorset Museum & Art Gallery. Friday 21st November 2025, I’m talking Sea Monsters Past and Present at Dorset Museum, Dorchester. This will be followed by a book signing. Info and tickets at...
dorsetmuseum.org
Join esteemed author and palaeozoologist Dr Darren Naish as he explores our developing ideas about sea monsters past and present, a subject that combines developments in palaeontology with studies of...
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