Darren Naish
Scientific American
United Kingdom
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Past articles by Darren:
Speculative Zoology, a Discussion
Of flightless future bats, alt–timeline dinosaurs—a homage to Dixoniana ... → Read More
The Tiger Subspecies Revised, 2017
So, how many different tiger subspecies are there. 8? 7? 6? Err...... 2? → Read More
Letters From the World of Turtle Evolution
turtles,pleurodires,cryptodires,Pleurodira,Cryptodira,Testudines,reptiles,herpetology,evolution,phylogeny → Read More
Fossils We Want to Find
There’s a list of fossils I’d really like you to go out and find. Good luck. → Read More
The Strange Case of the Minnesota Iceman
The modern-day corpse of a human-like hominid, preserved in a block of ice, encountered by researchers in the 1960s, you say? Surely the zoological discovery of the century! → Read More
The Ridiculous Nasal Anatomy of Giant Horned Dinosaurs
Giant horned dinosaurs had very special nostrils... → Read More
Rilla Martin's Ozenkadnook Tiger Photo, Revisited
Can we ever really explain a weird 'monster' photo, taken in Australia in 1964? Well, we can try... → Read More
The Stegosaurus Plate Controversy
You live in the Jurassic and you've evolved giant, diamond-shaped bone plates that stick out the top of your neck, back and tail. Why , evolution, why ?? → Read More
News from the World of Rabbits
In which we look at news from the world of rabbits → Read More
Burning Question for National Giraffe Day: Can They Swim?
A few years ago a colleague and I did an exhaustive analysis and concluded that they might—but not very well → Read More
The Integrated Maniraptoran, Part 1
The evolutionary history of maniraptoran dinosaurs was complex, perhaps messy. But all is not lost... → Read More
On World Rhino Day 2015, Some Things about Rhinos You Might Not Know
I’ve just learnt that today is World Rhino Day. This always happens: I learn about these things on the day and am completely unaware of them beforehand. I apologise if all this shows is that I’m badly organised and not paying enough attention to what’s being covered on the zoological newswires. Anyway... → Read More
Yi qi Is Neat But Might Not Have Been the Black Screaming Dino-Dragon of Death
A couple of weeks ago I hatched a plan to write about all the neat new dinosaur-themed studies that had just appeared in print; I began ... → Read More
That Brontosaurus Thing
So, the name Brontosaurus is back in business. After comparing, analysing, measuring and coding an extraordinary amount of anatomical detail pertaining to diplodocid sauropods, Emanuel Tschopp ... → Read More
People Are Modifying Monitors to Make Gargantuan Geckos
Over the last several days a consortium of people interested in herpetology, weird animals, animal lore, and special effects have worked together to help resolve an ... → Read More
Meet the Scaly-Tail Gliders
Among the weirdest and most fascinating of rodents are the scalytails/scaly-tails, scaly-tailed squirrels or anomalures, properly termed Anomaluridae. For those of you that don’t know, this ... → Read More
Spots, Stripes and Spreading Hooves in the Horses of the Ice Age
During the upper Palaeolithic (that is, between 40,000 and 10,000 years ago), prehistoric people in Europe and Asia (and elsewhere) depicted the animals they saw in ... → Read More
There is so much more to flying frogs than flying frogs
Episode 2 of David Attenborough’s Conquest of the Skies appeared on TV the other day, and I watched it (in fact, I livetweeted throughout, mostly because ... → Read More
Parsley frogs: spadefoots without spades
Anurans – frogs and toads – haven’t received enough coverage on Tet Zoo of late, so here’s one of several efforts to redress the balance. For ... → Read More
How Robins Became the Birds of Christmas
It's time to wind things down for Christmas, so what better way to do it than to write a short article about robins. And here I mean the `original' or `proper' robin - the European robin Erithacus rubecula - a Eurasian passerine that also occurs in northern Africa and is (conventionally) regarded as the only [...] → Read More