Just a reminder that JON FAVREAU - yes, THE actual Jon Favreau, of The Mandalorian and Grogu and much else - starred as a guest on the Tetrapod Zoology podcast, here's the ep... tetzoo.com/podcast/2023...

Breaking news: my giant (1.4 m wide) CROCODYLOMORPH EMPIRE poster is now done and will be available for sale very soon (maybe today). We're planning to have copies ready in time for #DinoConUK 2026 and we suggest that people buy it online and pick it up in person at DinoCon. More news coming...

What about birds? The standard crew for this part of the world, with both Willow warbler and Chiffchaff heard at the same time, plus siskin and firecrest. No crossbills this time. But the highlight? ...

In an area of coniferous woodland near a field, we heard a churring... instantly recognisable as NIGHTJAR. I hung around, saw the bird in flight _twice_, aaaand....

At last, my own takin. A golden one no less.

And here's lizard # 2, a bolder one that stayed in view for somewhat longer. This is the animal with the tick on its side... #lizard #reptiles #NewForest

At several select spots in the forest recently, I've found Viviparous lizards. Today I developed a new way of photographing and filming them, a major win. Two lizards here, one of which has a tick on its left side...

By tinkering in photoshop, we get this. I've seen #nightjars before but only fleetingly in flight. These are my best views so far and I'm pretty happy. I love nightjars (and the other birds once grouped together in Caprimulgiformes) but this is the only species I've seen in the wild. #birds

Hello from Blackwater Aboretum in the New Forest. What might I find? ...

This must be vole day for me

Hello from Blackwater Aboretum in the New Forest. What might I find? ...

Back during the 2002 Ariston the Leedsichthys dig, I found the distal end of a plesiosaur propodial, probably from a cryptoclidid. Just recovered it from storage. Always useful to have actual specimens to hand.

Feed: "Tetrapod Zoology" By: Darren Naish on Friday, May 29, 2026

Let's talk voles! tetzoo.com/blog/2026/5/... #rodents #mammals #mammalogy

I saw a good vole a few days ago, and was just thinking that I wanted to know more about them, since I am also reading Bernd Heinrich's The Snoring Bird which has a lot of voles in it. (All of which get skinned and sent to museums)

Let's talk voles! tetzoo.com/blog/2026/5/... #rodents #mammals #mammalogy

Episode 158 of the @leasthaunted.bsky.social features me, 'Talking Cryptids and Sea Monsters with Dr. Darren Naish' ... 1eadbf74-bf01-4a61-801b-e6cdb09d0a9c.libsyn.com/episode-158-... #seamonsters #cryptozoology

🦇 Another awesome commission! This one features two Late Eocene Egyptian giant bats- Aegyptonycteris (with the fruit) and Witwatia. Both of them were around the size of the extant Spectral Bat (the largest living carnivorous bat). #paleoart

Marco Makes and I caught up last night, and a consequence is these figures on the desk...

A quick primer on VOLES at Tet Zoo .... tetzoo.com/blog/2026/5/... #rodents #mammals #mammalogy

We're going through a phase of renewed interest in the 1937 #Cadborosaurus carcass. The >definitive< take - it reviews the history, claims about the carcass's anatomy, the house-of-cards hypotheses built on the supposed affinities of the animal and more - is here ... tetzoo.com/blog/2020/11...

A quick primer on VOLES at Tet Zoo .... tetzoo.com/blog/2026/5/... #rodents #mammals #mammalogy

Episode 158 of the @leasthaunted.bsky.social features me, 'Talking Cryptids and Sea Monsters with Dr. Darren Naish' ... 1eadbf74-bf01-4a61-801b-e6cdb09d0a9c.libsyn.com/episode-158-... #seamonsters #cryptozoology

Billiam delivers yet again, with a Hunting Monsters shout-out at 19.55 (albeit for a hypothesis I don't really support that much...) www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbdV...

This. 1.000 times this.

Just a reminder that the list of PROHIBITED ITEMS at #DinoConUK vendor tables includes "AI generated images or text (whole or partial)". We are taking a stand: no AI allowed. See for yourself: www.dinocon.co.uk/prohibited-i... See you in Birmingham, July 25th-26th :)

Marco Makes and I caught up last night, and a consequence is these figures on the desk...

This is how you handle AI!

Proof that the sea monster talk I gave at the London Fortean Society event Strange Central in February 2026 was -filmed- .... I can't share it though, sorry

At least I bought a new Spinosaurus. It's the green and yellow variant of the Procon 2007.

Just a reminder that the list of PROHIBITED ITEMS at #DinoConUK vendor tables includes "AI generated images or text (whole or partial)". We are taking a stand: no AI allowed. See for yourself: www.dinocon.co.uk/prohibited-i... See you in Birmingham, July 25th-26th :)

Proof that the sea monster talk I gave at the London Fortean Society event Strange Central in February 2026 was -filmed- .... I can't share it though, sorry

Darren Naish is consistently one of my favorite writers on the topic of cryptozoology and this is a great piece. Definitely recommend taking the time to read it!

At least I bought a new Spinosaurus. It's the green and yellow variant of the Procon 2007.

Took some effort, but I managed to track down a cheap copy of the Freeman Bigfoot Files book. And if you want to know what I think of Freeman's copious bigfoot evidence... you have to wait a while I'm afraid.

We're going through a phase of renewed interest in the 1937 #Cadborosaurus carcass. The >definitive< take - it reviews the history, claims about the carcass's anatomy, the house-of-cards hypotheses built on the supposed affinities of the animal and more - is here ... tetzoo.com/blog/2020/11...

There's only 2 days left to purchase a Sponsor Pack for #DinoConUK 2026!! Sponsor Packs will not be available to purchase after 12pm on Friday 29th May! All other tickets will continue to be available to buy until 23rd July. Tickets cannot be purchased on the door!

Samba the capybara news: there is no news. No sightings, no new photos. Bite marks on a plant were found in late April and suggested to have been made by a small capybara but that's it. Maybe she'll still out there, living cryptically in the Hampshire countryside... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Goats photographed at Cheddar Gorge in 2017

Its entertaining how many times you can spot me in this! Looking forward to Dinocon again this year, last year was a blast!!

DINO CON!! I'll be there. Molly (aka @creatureconsultant.bsky.social) had so much fun at DinoCon, as can be seen in the video below, that she couldn't stop talking about it. So this year, I'm coming, too! Looking forward very much! PS: Cooking up something special, too...psst. #dinosaurs

#DinoCon 2026 is happening at the end of July -- tickets are on sale and selling well :) WHAT sort of thing can you look forward to? Check out this video of last year's DinoCon, taken and edited by Tom Fishenden... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oqh-... Follow @dinoconuk.bsky.social for announcements

Samba the capybara news: there is no news. No sightings, no new photos. Bite marks on a plant were found in late April and suggested to have been made by a small capybara but that's it. Maybe she'll still out there, living cryptically in the Hampshire countryside... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Some of the cetacean figures that are out there...

Some of the cetacean figures that are out there...

Been to two of the TetZooCons and the 1st DinoCon, they are lots of fun and always have some awesome dinosaur figures to purchase.

... whether the British record has been ‘over-interpreted’ or is uncharacteristically well interpreted due to a long history of unusually thorough checking. Anyway, my publications page is here: darrennaish.wordpress.com/publications/

Some of these have since been challenged by finds from elsewhere but it’s still fair to ask whether this represents a genuine global importance for the region within biogeographic history, or...

In part 1, we reviewed near-dinosaurs or possible dinosaurs (Saltopus and Agnosphitys), sauropodomorphs and theropods. Our main point in the discussion – and it remains true today – is that Great Britain appears to have an unusually high number of ‘oldest’ records for various dinosaur groups...