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During the June and July of 2010 I and a host of friends and colleagues based at, or affiliated with, the University of Portsmouth attended the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition. As you'll know if you saw the articles and pictures I posted here at Tet Zoo, our research group set up and displayed the extremely popular Dragons of the Air exhibition.

A life reconstruction of one of the largest penguins that ever lived, _Kumimanu biceae_. Illustration by Mark Witton (used with permission, all other rights reserved), Author provided What is

Today, my friends, is January 21st 2011. Do you know what this means? It means (drumroll)... that Tet Zoo is five years old today. Wow. Five years. With apologies to those who've heard the story before, things started in 2006 over at blogspot, and in 2007 Tet Zoo ver 2 kicked off here on ScienceBlogs. So: happy birthday Tet Zoo!

By: Mark Mancini  |  Updated: Mar 5, 2021 " " Velociraptor had a big sickle claw on the second toe of each foot that was likely used to pierce the skin and grip the flesh of prey. Daniel Eskridge/Stocktrek Images Velociraptor is linked to two of the most intriguing figures in paleontology: Roy Chapman Andrews and Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska. Often compared to Indiana Jones, Andrews was an American explorer known for his vivid field stories. The mans writings describe "nar...

First of all, I've been away (speaking about fossil cats again), though - as previously - you might not have known this given that a list of posts were scheduled to appear in my absence. Is there more on mesonychians to come? There might be, but I haven't yet had the time to finish it. Meanwhile....

November 25, 2020 5 min read The find of an early bird with a tall, sickle-shaped beak reveals hidden species diversity during the age of dinosaurs, according to an international team of researchers led by Alan H. Turner of Stony Brook University and Patrick O’Connor of Ohio University. The findings are detailed in a paper published in The newly discovered, crow-sized bird fossil that would have sliced its way through the air wielding a large, blade-like beak, offers new insight into the evol...