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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 3h

Hello from The Colour of Dinosaurs, a theatrical event at Mayflower Studios in Southampton

A stage with illuminated dinosaur shapes and purple lights.

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 5h

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 5h

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... vertpaleo.org/2025-worksho...

2025 Workshop – Palaeoart Past and Present: The View from the UK – Society of Vertebrate Paleontology

vertpaleo.org

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 5h

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... www.dorsetmuseum.org/whats-on/sea...

Sea Monsters Past and Present | Dr Darren Naish – Dorset Museum & Art Gallery

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 ...

www.dorsetmuseum.org

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 5h

Sea Monsters in Cornwall. Sunday 26th October 2025, I’ll be talking Sea Monsters Past and Present as part of the Dark Folklore Festival in Porthtowan, Cornwall. More info and tickets at... www.darkcornwall.com/event-detail...

Dark Cornwall Presents: The Dark Folklore Festival 2025 | Dark Cornwall

Join us on 26 October 2025 in Porthtowan for The 2025 Dark Folklore Festival, where rituals will weave the veil thin, masters of folklore will share their dark tales, and legends will walk among us in...

www.darkcornwall.com

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 23h

Yeah yeah, totally not contemporaneous ... but very neat that both should turn up on the same day :)

3D print of Temnodontosaurus skull and WWD Liopleurodon figure together.

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 23h

What did the dodo look like in life? A reminder of this Tet Zoo article from 2020, which pulls together most of the relevant sources and has influenced at least some recent depictions ... tetzoo.com/blog/2020/7/... #birds #extinct #Dodo

The Dodo in Life — Tetrapod Zoology

dodo, Dodos, Raphus, Raphus cucullatus, Raphidae, extinct birds, birds, ornithology, pigeons, dodobird, extinct bird, bird extinction, flightless birds, flightless pigeons, Erroll Fuller, Julian Hume,...

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 21h

Did you see #Dinomania at @dinoconuk.bsky.social ? Guess who's on #DragonsDen this evening?

Dinomania team - Range Chris and two dinosaurs.

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Richard Butler @richardjbutler.bsky.social · 21h

Sort of incredible to publish a taxonomic revision and name a new species without figuring an actual fossil.

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 21h

Did you see #Dinomania at @dinoconuk.bsky.social ? Guess who's on #DragonsDen this evening?

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Natalia Jagielska @nataliajagielska.bsky.social · 23h

Look what I got my hands on! 👐

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 23h

What did the dodo look like in life? A reminder of this Tet Zoo article from 2020, which pulls together most of the relevant sources and has influenced at least some recent depictions ... tetzoo.com/blog/2020/7/... #birds #extinct #Dodo

The Dodo in Life — Tetrapod Zoology

dodo, Dodos, Raphus, Raphus cucullatus, Raphidae, extinct birds, birds, ornithology, pigeons, dodobird, extinct bird, bird extinction, flightless birds, flightless pigeons, Erroll Fuller, Julian Hume,...

tetzoo.com

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 23h

Yeah yeah, totally not contemporaneous ... but very neat that both should turn up on the same day :)

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for your interest. Ancient Sea Reptiles and Dinopedia are both available in the US, I hope you'll buy them :)

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 1d

OK - currently we don't, as we looked into it and just thought that the add-on postage etc made it too expensive for anyone to bother.

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 1d

I believe we do, but let me check...

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 2d

Interested in neat extinct sea reptiles, or #dinosaurs... or know someone who is? Please buy my #books - you can get them directly from me, and I'll sign them personally :) Go here... tetzoo-store.sumupstore.com

Selection of dinosaur illustrations from Darren Naish's Dinopedia.

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 1d

He also spells the name wrong (zellaguyondemeya) once in the paper, oops

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not a fan of polysyllabic scientific names that are hard to say, and also just plain hard to remember. So... Utetitan might be a yes, but zellaguymondeweyae is a no... This is a titanosaur pulled out of Alamosaurus by Greg Paul (giw.utahgeology.org/giw/index.ph...) #dinosaurs

View of Stratigraphic and anatomical evidence for multiple titanosaurid dinosaur taxa in the Late Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) of southwestern North America

giw.utahgeology.org

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 1d

Massive thanks to my good buddy Kieran Satchell of Lyme Regis Museum for this excellent belated birthday gift :) The actual skull WHICH IS HUGE is on show in the museum.