What's in MESOZOIC ART II, our new, outstandingly gorgeous #palaeoart-themed giant book? Check it out ... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/9/... #art #books #dinosaurs #paleoart

Hello new followers :) I publish technical and popular articles on dinosaurs, pterosaurs, marine reptiles and more and -where possible- I put these works online here... darrennaish.wordpress.com/publications/

Just finished "Dinosaurs, how they lived and evolved", by @tetzoo.bsky.social and Paul Barrett. It covers the history & origins of dinosaurs, family trees, biology, behaviour, origins of birds etc. It's a great overview with lots of pictures & graphs to assist understanding. Highly recommend.

The fantastic new #Toymany #primates set - including species not previously realised in toy form - is unboxed and reviewed in my new #TetZooTowers_collection TikTok... www.tiktok.com/@tetzootower... To buy it WITH DISCOUNT, visit toymany.com/collections/... and use code TMAMDN10 :)

Hel and I went out with Teddy and I like pretending that we live in an attractive and interesting place. We don't.

The fantastic new #Toymany #primates set - including species not previously realised in toy form - is unboxed and reviewed in my new #TetZooTowers_collection TikTok... www.tiktok.com/@tetzootower... To buy it WITH DISCOUNT, visit toymany.com/collections/... and use code TMAMDN10 :)

“Other popular-level books used evolution to tell the story of the past, but nobody had taken the whole process – the observable trends – & projected them into the future” —Speculative Zoology: @tetzoo.bsky.social interviews Dougal Dixon, author & illustrator of AFTER MAN tetzoo.com/blog/2025/3/...

I was losing weight at the time

How it started

I still need to write more on amphisbaenians. Amazingly odd animals.

NEW blog post! The evolution and fossil record of narwhals and belugas - the white whales! Emphasis on the surprising fossil record of belugas and the evolution of the bizarre tusk in the weirdest modern cetacean. 🐬🧪🦖 #whaleontology Read it here: coastalpaleo.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-...

Books, stickers, merch!

Your reminder that Safari Ltd made a glow in the dark mothman toy

How it started

New at the Terrible Lizards Podcast, a discussion between Iszi, Dave and me on the contents of ANCIENT SEA REPTILES, now out in softback ... terriblelizards.libsyn.com/tls11e09-anc...

Books, stickers, merch!

The THIRD edition of Ancient Sea Reptiles is out now: new info, updates, new illustrations. Buy it from me and I'll sign it for you... tetzoo-store.sumupstore.com

The Jeol impala pair... finally, I have them.

The THIRD edition of Ancient Sea Reptiles is out now: new info, updates, new illustrations. Buy it from me and I'll sign it for you... tetzoo-store.sumupstore.com

New at the Terrible Lizards Podcast, a discussion between Iszi, Dave and me on the contents of ANCIENT SEA REPTILES, now out in softback ... terriblelizards.libsyn.com/tls11e09-anc...

It's fair to say that I had a pretty good birthday yesterday, huge thanks to everyone that came along :)

I hate putting stuff into storage as that then makes it so hard to get to, but alas. Some - yes, SOME - of my amphibian boxfiles need to be stashed in the loft :(

it's easy to point fingers at gun and anti-vax culture in the US, but cars are far more acceptable and pernicious yes, they are useful if you have one — but we need to recognise we need better solutions for everyone

I love going to the woods (though this is a tiny, impoverished suburban scrap of the sort typical here). What I don't love are entitled people who ruin the environment through selfish off-road biking. Nearly got hit by a guy charging down a slope at speed.

It's fair to say that I had a pretty good birthday yesterday, huge thanks to everyone that came along :)

We had a fantastic time at the first ever @dinoconuk.bsky.social last month. It was an amazing experience and a real pleasure to meet so many passionate and inspiring people. We’re proud to have collaborated with the team behind #DinoCon - thank you @tetzoo.bsky.social @jamespascoe.bsky.social!

It's like having a Georgettesaurus or Bartholomewceratops.

Nature book challenge. A book per day in no particular order, until you’ve shared ALL of the best nature books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, #Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky

Feed: "Tetrapod Zoology" By: Darren Naish on Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Happy birthday to Mesozoic Art v.2 - on sale today from Bloomsbury Wildlife! As fine a collection of modern palaeoart as could be - 25 artists across 250 pages. Darren Naish and I could not be more proud. Available from Bloomsbury and all other fine booksellers! Volume one is still available!

I'm sure you know this, Darren, but since many people don't: people at the Stan Winston studio, including Crash McCreery, were pulling for that during pre-production of the first film. Spielberg said no!

Yes! beautiful stuff, great work from everyone and a couple of new folks to find on here as a result!

If Jurassic Park had feathered its dromaeosaurids in 1993, I'm telling you that this would be the GOOD timeline. And yet here we are.

Sooo... who has their copy already? tetzoo.com/blog/2025/9/... #palaeoart #paleoart #books

New article by me on the very impressive new megaraptoran Joaquinraptor (title typo not mine!) ... www.discoverwildlife.com/dinosaurs/jo... #dinosaurs #fossils #theropods

You could have waited Jurassic world rebirth You could have waited

Getting immolated by an apocalyptic meteor while having a delicious treat is possibly one of the very best ways to die that there is

Can Science Explain Legendary Creatures? An interview starring me, at Things Visible and Invisible... youtu.be/_ePSHyZ1hRU?...

New at Tet Zoo Towers, the #Toymany anthropoid primates set. It's great! Unboxing and review videos coming soon. To get yours, visit toymany.com/collections/... and use code TMAMDN10 for a discount!

We will look back at the 2020s as a pivotal time in how prehistoric life is portrayed, mark my words! The ultimate guide to #palaeoart / #paleoart of our age ... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/9/...

New article by me on the very impressive new megaraptoran Joaquinraptor (title typo not mine!) ... www.discoverwildlife.com/dinosaurs/jo... #dinosaurs #fossils #theropods

Ordered this myself a few days ago!

We will look back at the 2020s as a pivotal time in how prehistoric life is portrayed, mark my words! The ultimate guide to #palaeoart / #paleoart of our age ... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/9/...

Dream alert! A friend - a US American who lived on a vast plot of wild, wooded land, as (so movies tell me) is typical - found a dead whale and bought it home on a big trailer. Wanted to keep it there, out of the back of the house... while we were camping nearby. Cont...

I've donated: if enough of us do that it sure make a difference. Have known about this issue for YEARS but seems that only now is it becoming well known. Help STOP the illegal killing of migratory #birds in #Cyprus! Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) donorbox.org/help-stop-il...

Some people have received MESOZOIC ART II already (for everyone else, it's out tomorrow. Published by @chiffchat.bsky.social). What do they think of it? Look at this review over at The Inquisitive Biologist .... inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/09/24/b... @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social #art #books

Looking at Toymany's web site, I especially appreciate the variety of well-observed and unusual poses they've given their critters. I used to think that one or two koala figures was plenty, but...

They've always looked to me like spaceships from some French sci fi comic

We get them here in Southern California. They're really neat.

i think this post has a mysterious plume moth manifestation curse because i just looked at the window a tad after seeing this and look who's here