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Darren Naish, the Glossary

Darren William Naish (born 26 September 1975) is a British vertebrate palaeontologist, author and science communicator.^[1]

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Academics of the University of Portsmouth
British sceptics
Critics of cryptozoology

A & C Black

A & C Black is a British book publishing company, owned since 2002 by Bloomsbury Publishing.

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Alien Worlds (TV series)

Alien Worlds is a British sci-fi nature docufiction narrated by Sophie Okonedo.

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All Yesterdays: Unique and Speculative Views of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals is a 2012 art book on the palaeoartistic reconstruction of dinosaurs and other extinct animals by John Conway, C. M. Kosemen and Darren Naish.

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Alvarezsauridae

Alvarezsauridae is a family of small, long-legged dinosaurs.

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Apple TV+

Apple TV+ is an American subscription OTT streaming service owned and operated by Apple Inc. Launched on November 1, 2019, it offers a selection of original production film and television series called Apple Originals.

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Araripemys

Araripemys is an extinct marine turtle genus from 112 to 109 million years ago, in the Early Cretaceous Crato and Romualdo Formations of the Araripe Basin in northeastern Brazil.

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Aristosuchus

Aristosuchus is a genus of small coelurosaurian dinosaur whose name was derived from the Greek ἄριστος (meaning bravest, best, noblest) and σουχος (the Ancient Greek corruption of the name of the Egyptian crocodile-headed god Sobek).

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Azhdarchidae

Azhdarchidae (from the Persian word azhdar, اژدر, a dragon-like creature in Persian mythology) is a family of pterosaurs known primarily from the Late Cretaceous Period, though an isolated vertebra apparently from an azhdarchid is known from the Early Cretaceous as well (late Berriasian age, about 140 million years ago).

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BBC News (TV channel)

The BBC News channel is a British free-to-air public broadcast television news channel owned and operated by the BBC.

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BBC Worldwide

BBC Worldwide Ltd. was the wholly owned commercial subsidiary of the BBC, formed out of a restructuring of its predecessor BBC Enterprises in January 1995.

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Blog

A blog (a truncation of "weblog") is an informational website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts).

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C. M. Kosemen

Cevdet Mehmet Kösemen (born 18 May 1984), also known by his former pen name Nemo Ramjet, is a Turkish researcher, artist, and author.

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Calamospondylus

Calamospondylus (meaning "quill vertebrae") is a genus of theropod dinosaur.

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Carlton Kids

Carlton Kids was a British digital terrestrial pay television kids channel, provided by Carlton Television, which started broadcasting on 15th November 1998 and closed on 31st January 2000.

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Cetacea

Cetacea is an infraorder of aquatic mammals belonging to the order Artiodactyla that includes whales, dolphins and porpoises.

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Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation.

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Cretaceous Research

Cretaceous Research is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier.

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Cryptozoology

Cryptozoology is a pseudoscience and subculture that searches for and studies unknown, legendary, or extinct animals whose present existence is disputed or unsubstantiated, particularly those popular in folklore, such as Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, Yeti, the chupacabra, the Jersey Devil, or the Mokele-mbembe.

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Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.

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DK (publisher)

Dorling Kindersley Limited (branded as DK) is a British multinational publishing company specialising in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 63 languages.

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Dromaeosauridae

Dromaeosauridae is a family of feathered coelurosaurian theropod dinosaurs.

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Eotyrannus

Eotyrannus (meaning "dawn tyrant") is a genus of tyrannosauroid theropod dinosaur hailing from the Early Cretaceous Wessex Formation beds, included in Wealden Group, located in the southwest coast of the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom.

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Galve, Teruel

Galve is a municipality located in the province of Teruel, Aragon, Spain.

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Gareth J. Dyke

Gareth John Dyke is a paleontologist whose work is concerned with the evolutionary history of birds and their dinosaurian relatives.

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Geological Society of London

The Geological Society of London, known commonly as the Geological Society, is a learned society based in the United Kingdom.

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Gigarcanum

Gigarcanum delcourti, formerly Hoplodactylus delcourti, is an extinct species of gecko in the family Diplodactylidae.

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Heptasteornis

Heptasteornis is the name given to a dubious genus of alvarezsaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous.

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Impossible Pictures

Impossible Pictures Ltd.

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Isle of Wight

The Isle of Wight (/waɪt/ ''WYTE'') is an island, English county and unitary authority in the English Channel, off the coast of Hampshire, across the Solent.

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John Conway (palaeoartist)

John Conway is an Australian palaeoartist and illustrator who specializes primarily in Mesozoic reptiles and pterosaurs in particular.

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Jon Ronson

Jon Ronson (born 10 May 1967) is a British journalist, author, and filmmaker.

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Kaplan, Inc.

Kaplan, Inc. is an international educational services company that provides educational and training services to colleges, universities, businesses and individuals around the world.

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List of informally named dinosaurs

This list of informally named dinosaurs is a listing of dinosaurs (excluding Aves; birds and their extinct relatives) that have never been given formally published scientific names.

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Mark P. Witton

Mark Paul Witton is a British vertebrate palaeontologist, author, and palaeoartist best known for his research and illustrations concerning pterosaurs, the extinct flying reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs. Darren Naish and Mark P. Witton are Academics of the University of Portsmouth and British palaeontologists.

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Mesozoic

The Mesozoic Era is the penultimate era of Earth's geological history, lasting from about, comprising the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods.

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Michael Benton

Michael James Benton One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: (born 8 April 1956) is a British palaeontologist, and professor of vertebrate palaeontology in the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol. Darren Naish and Michael Benton are British palaeontologists.

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Michael P. Taylor

Michael Paul Taylor (born 12 March 1968) is a British computer programmer with a Ph.D. in palaeontology. Darren Naish and Michael P. Taylor are British palaeontologists.

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Mirischia

Mirischia is a small (two meter-long) genus of compsognathid theropod dinosaur from the Albian stage (Early Cretaceous Period) of Brazil.

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Montauk Monster

The "Montauk Monster" was an animal carcass that washed ashore on a beach near the business district of Montauk, New York, in July 2008.

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Natural History Museum, London

The Natural History Museum in London is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history.

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Netflix

Netflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service.

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Owl

Owls are birds from the order Strigiformes, which includes over 200 species of mostly solitary and nocturnal birds of prey typified by an upright stance, a large, broad head, binocular vision, binaural hearing, sharp talons, and feathers adapted for silent flight.

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Palaeontological Association

The Palaeontological Association (PalAss for short) is a charitable organisation based in the UK founded in 1957 for the promotion of the study of palaeontology and its allied sciences.

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Paleontology

Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present).

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Popular science

Popular science (also called pop-science or popsci) is an interpretation of science intended for a general audience.

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Prehistoric Planet

Prehistoric Planet is a British–American nature documentary television series about dinosaurs, that premiered on Apple TV+ beginning May 23, 2022.

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Pterosaur

Pterosaurs (from Greek pteron and sauros, meaning "wing lizard") are an extinct clade of flying reptiles in the order Pterosauria.

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Pycnodontiformes

Pycnodontiformes is an extinct order of primarily marine bony fish.

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Quercus (publisher)

Quercus is a formerly independent publishing house, based in London, that was acquired by Hodder & Stoughton in 2014.

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Richard & Judy

Richard & Judy (also known as Richard & Judy's New Position) was a British television chat show presented by the married couple Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan.

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Sauropoda

Sauropoda, whose members are known as sauropods (from sauro- + -pod, 'lizard-footed'), is a clade of saurischian ('lizard-hipped') dinosaurs.

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Sauroposeidon

Sauroposeidon (meaning "lizard earthquake god", after the Greek god Poseidon) is a genus of sauropod dinosaur known from several incomplete specimens including a bone bed and fossilized trackways that have been found in the U.S. states of Oklahoma, Wyoming, and Texas.

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Scalacurvichthys

Scalacurvichthys (meaning "curved scale fish") is an extinct genus of pycnodontine pycnodontiform fish from the Amminadav Formation or Bet-Meir Formation in the West Bank; Palestine.

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Science communication

Science communication encompasses a wide range of activities that connect science and society.

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ScienceBlogs

ScienceBlogs is an invitation-only blog network and virtual community that operated initially for almost 12 years, from 2006 to 2017.

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Scientific American

Scientific American, informally abbreviated SciAm or sometimes SA, is an American popular science magazine.

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Sea monster

Sea monsters are beings from folklore believed to dwell in the sea and are often imagined to be of immense size.

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Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution, or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Founded on August 10, 1846, it operates as a trust instrumentality and is not formally a part of any of the three branches of the federal government.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darren_Naish

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See also

Academics of the University of Portsmouth

British sceptics

Critics of cryptozoology

References