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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Darren William Naish is a British vertebrate paleontologist, author and science communicator. As a researcher, he is best known for his work describing and reevaluating dinosaurs and other Mesozoic reptiles, including Eotyrannus, Xenoposeidon, and azhdarchid pterosaurs. Much of his research has focused on Wealden Group fossils from the Isle of Wight.
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- Sustained miniaturization and anatomical innovation in the dinosaurian ancestors of birds (2014) (184)
- A Reappraisal of Azhdarchid Pterosaur Functional Morphology and Paleoecology (2008) (129)
- Head and Neck Posture in Sauropod Dinosaurs Inferred from Extant Animals (2009) (105)
- A preliminary account of a new tyrannosauroid theropod from the Wessex Formation (Early Cretaceous) of southern England (2001) (104)
- Morphological clocks in paleontology, and a mid-Cretaceous origin of crown Aves. (2014) (103)
- New Ophthalmosaurid Ichthyosaurs from the European Lower Cretaceous Demonstrate Extensive Ichthyosaur Survival across the Jurassic–Cretaceous Boundary (2012) (98)
- Does mutual sexual selection explain the evolution of head crests in pterosaurs and dinosaurs (2012) (87)
- Cranial crest development in the Azhdarchoid pterosaur Tupuxuara, with a review of the genus and tapejarid monophyly (2006) (76)
- Dinosaurs and other fossil vertebrates from the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous of the Galve area, NE Spain (2007) (74)
- Sexual selection in prehistoric animals: detection and implications. (2013) (70)
- Ecology, Systematics and Biogeographical Relationships of Dinosaurs, Including a New Theropod, from the Santana Formation (?Albian, Early Cretaceous) of Brazil (2004) (68)
- A basal thunnosaurian from Iraq reveals disparate phylogenetic origins for Cretaceous ichthyosaurs (2013) (64)
- Pedal Claw Curvature in Birds, Lizards and Mesozoic Dinosaurs – Complicated Categories and Compensating for Mass-Specific and Phylogenetic Control (2012) (59)
- Aerodynamic performance of the feathered dinosaur Microraptor and the evolution of feathered flight (2013) (56)
- Dinosaurs of Great Britain and the role of the Geological Society of London in their discovery: basal Dinosauria and Saurischia (2007) (54)
- A new Plattenkalk Konservat Lagerstätte in the Upper Cretaceous of Gara Sbaa, south-eastern Morocco (2011) (54)
- Fossil Seals from Late Neogene Deposits in South America: A New Pinniped (Carnivora, Mammalia) Assemblage from Chile (2002) (50)
- The phylogenetic affinities of the bizarre Late Cretaceous Romanian theropod Balaur bondoc (Dinosauria, Maniraptora): dromaeosaurid or flightless bird? (2015) (49)
- Heptasteornis was no ornithominid, troodontid, dromaeosaurid or owl: the first alvarezsaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from Europe (2004) (46)
- New perspectives on horned dinosaurs: the Royal Tyrrell Museum Ceratopsian Symposium (2013) (46)
- A new leptocleidid (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from the Vectis Formation (Early Barremian–early Aptian; Early Cretaceous) of the Isle of Wight and the evolution of Leptocleididae, a controversial clade (2013) (44)
- The East Side Story – The Transylvanian latest Cretaceous continental vertebrate record and its implications for understanding Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary events (2016) (43)
- AN UNUSUAL NEW NEOSAUROPOD DINOSAUR FROM THE LOWER CRETACEOUS HASTINGS BEDS GROUP OF EAST SUSSEX, ENGLAND (2007) (42)
- The ecology and conservation of Asian hornbills: farmers of the forest (2015) (41)
- A New Azhdarchid Pterosaur from the Late Cretaceous of the Transylvanian Basin, Romania: Implications for Azhdarchid Diversity and Distribution (2013) (40)
- SOLNHOFEN‐STYLE SOFT‐TISSUE PRESERVATION IN A NEW SPECIES OF TURTLE FROM THE CRATO FORMATION (EARLY CRETACEOUS, APTIAN) OF NORTH‐EAST BRAZIL (2005) (39)
- Simbirskiasaurus and Pervushovisaurus reassessed: implications for the taxonomy and cranial osteology of Cretaceous platypterygiine ichthyosaurs (2014) (38)
- Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Saurians: A Historical Perspective (2010) (38)
- A drowned Mesozoic bird breeding colony from the Late Cretaceous of Transylvania (2012) (37)
- The four-flipper swimming method of plesiosaurs enabled efficient and effective locomotion (2017) (32)
- Complex neuroanatomy in the rostrum of the Isle of Wight theropod Neovenator salerii (2017) (31)
- The ‘species recognition hypothesis’ does not explain the presence and evolution of exaggerated structures in non‐avialan dinosaurs (2013) (30)
- The phylogenetic taxonomy of Diplodocoidea (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) (2005) (29)
- A New Small-Bodied Azhdarchoid Pterosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of England and Its Implications for Pterosaur Anatomy, Diversity and Phylogeny (2013) (28)
- Dinosaurs of Great Britain and the role of the Geological Society of London in their discovery: Ornithischia (2008) (27)
- Azhdarchid Pterosaurs: Water-Trawling Pelican Mimics or “Terrestrial Stalkers”? (2013) (26)
- The inner bird: anatomy and evolution (2011) (26)
- Europe's largest dinosaur? A giant brachiosaurid cervical vertebra from the Wessex Formation (Early Cretaceous) of southern England (2004) (24)
- Neck biomechanics indicate that giant Transylvanian azhdarchid pterosaurs were short-necked arch predators (2017) (24)
- The long necks of sauropods did not evolve primarily through sexual selection (2011) (24)
- A reappraisal of Thecocoelurus daviesi (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Early Cretaceous of the Isle of Wight (2002) (22)
- A Medium-Sized Robust-Necked Azhdarchid Pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea: Azhdarchidae) from the Maastrichtian of Pui (Haţeg Basin, Transylvania, Romania) (2015) (21)
- Predicting the buoyancy, equilibrium and potential swimming ability of giraffes by computational analysis. (2010) (21)
- The fossil record of bird behaviour (2014) (20)
- Early Cretaceous (Berriasian) birds and pterosaurs from the Cornet bauxite mine, Romania (2011) (19)
- A gigantic bird from the Upper Cretaceous of Central Asia (2012) (18)
- Is sexual selection defined by dimorphism alone? A reply to Padian and Horner. (2013) (18)
- The Dodo and the Solitaire: A Natural History (2014) (18)
- Structure and function of the cassowary's casque and its implications for cassowary history, biology and evolution (2016) (18)
- Petreşti-Arini – An important but ephemeral Upper Cretaceous continental vertebrate site in the southwestern Transylvanian Basin, Romania (2014) (18)
- The historical taxonomy of the Lower Cretaceous theropods (Dinosauria) Calamospondylus and Aristosuchus from the Isle of Wight (2002) (15)
- Marine tethysuchian crocodyliform from the ?Aptian-Albian (Lower Cretaceous) of the Isle of Wight, UK (2014) (15)
- State of the Palaeoart (2014) (14)
- Theropod dinosaur diversity and palaeobiology in the Wealden Group (Early Cretaceous) of England: evidence from a previously undescribed tibia (1999) (13)
- Fossils explained 51 (2005) (13)
- A New Large Basal Tetanuran (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Wessex Formation (Barremian) of the Isle of Wight, England (2009) (12)
- Correction: New Ophthalmosaurid Ichthyosaurs from the European Lower Cretaceous Demonstrate Extensive Ichthyosaur Survival across the Jurassic–Cretaceous Boundary (2012) (11)
- A tiny maniraptoran dinosaur in the Lower Cretaceous Hastings Group: Evidence from a new vertebrate-bearing locality in south-east England (2011) (11)
- New spinosaurids from the Wessex Formation (Early Cretaceous, UK) and the European origins of Spinosauridae (2021) (11)
- Powered flight in hatchling pterosaurs: evidence from wing form and bone strength (2021) (10)
- How many extant pinniped species remain to be described? (2008) (10)
- Dinosaurs and other extinct saurians: a historical perspective – introduction (2010) (10)
- A small, unusual theropod (Dinosauria) femur from the Wealden Group (Lower Cretaceous) of the Isle of Wight, England (2000) (9)
- Fossils Explained 48: Placodonts (2004) (8)
- RAUHUT, O. W. M. 2003. The Interrelationships and Evolution of Basal Theropod Dinosaurs. Special Papers in Palaeontology no. 69. 213 pp. London: The Palaeontological Association. Price £60.00 (paperback). ISBN 0 901702 79 X; ISSN 0038-6804 (2003) (8)
- A definitive allosauroid (Dinosauria; Theropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of East Sussex (2003) (8)
- The Crato Fossil Beds of Brazil: Turtles of the Crato Formation (2007) (8)
- A Baby Sea-Serpent No More: Reinterpreting Hagelund's Juvenile "Cadborosaur" Report (2011) (7)
- DID NINETEENTH CENTURY MARINE VERTEBRATE FOSSIL DISCOVERIES INFLUENCE SEA SERPENT REPORTS? (2019) (7)
- An infant ornithopod dinosaur tibia from the Late Cretaceous of Sebeş, Romania (2013) (7)
- A mixed vertebrate eggshell assemblage from the Transylvanian Late Cretaceous (2019) (7)
- Comment on Spracklandus Hoser, 2009 (Reptilia, Serpentes, ELAPIDAE): request for confirmation of availability of the generic name and for the nomenclatural validation of the journal in which it was published (Case 3601; BZN 70:234 237; 71:30 38; 133-135,181-182 ,252-253) (2015) (6)
- A highly pneumatic middle Cretaceous theropod from the British Lower Greensand (2020) (5)
- Alan Jack Charig (1927–1997): an overview of his academic accomplishments and role in the world of fossil reptile research (2010) (5)
- What about European alvarezsauroids? (2011) (5)
- On the Unnecessary and Misleading Taxon “Cetartiodactyla” (2021) (4)
- Pterosaurs – a successful invasion of prehistoricskies (4)
- The Crato Fossil Beds of Brazil: Birds of the Crato Formation (2007) (4)
- Does postcranial palaeoneurology provide insight into pterosaur behaviour and lifestyle? New data from the azhdarchoid Vectidraco and the ornithocheirids Coloborhynchus and Anhanguera (2018) (4)
- Art, Anatomy, and the Stars: Russell and Séguin’s Dinosauroid (2021) (3)
- The osteology and affinities of Eotyrannus lengi, a tyrannosauroid theropod from the Wealden Supergroup of southern England (2022) (3)
- Pneumaticity, the early years: Wealden Supergroup dinosaurs and the hypothesis of saurischian pneumaticity (2010) (3)
- Glorified dinosaurs: the origin and early evolution of birds (2011) (2)
- Fossils explained 51 Sloths (2005) (2)
- Multidisciplinary investigation of a ‘British big cat’: a lynx killed in southern England c. 1903 (2014) (2)
- Photoluminescent visual displays: an additional function of integumentary structures in extinct archosaurs? (2020) (2)
- ‘Mystery big cats’ in the Peruvian Amazon: morphometrics solve a cryptozoological mystery (2014) (2)
- Marine tethysuchian crocodyliform from the ?Aptian-Albian (Early Cretaceous) of the Isle of Wight, England (2017) (1)
- accomplishments and role in the world of fossil reptile research Alan Jack Charig (19271997): an overview of his academic Geological Society, London, Special Publications (2010) (1)
- A critical new ankylosaur specimen from the Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight (2015) (1)
- a successful invasion of prehistoric skies (2003) (1)
- Author Correction: Powered flight in hatchling pterosaurs: evidence from wing form and bone strength (2021) (1)
- Glide analysis and bone strength tests indicate powered flight capabilities in hatchling pterosaurs (2017) (1)
- the hypothesis of saurischian pneumaticity Pneumaticity, the early years: Wealden Supergroup dinosaurs and Geological Society, London, Special Publications (2010) (0)
- The enormous liolaemine radiation: paradoxical herbivory, viviparity, evolutionary cul-de-sacs and the impending mass extinction | Tetrapod Zoology, Scientific American Blog Network (0)
- C. Pellant & H. Pellant 2007. Fossils. A Photographic Field Guide . 144 pp. London, Cape Town, Sydney, Auckland: New Holland Publishers. Price £14.99 (hard covers). ISBN 9781 84537 336 8. (2010) (0)
- Complex neuroanatomy in the rostrum of the Isle of Wight theropod Neovenator salerii (2017) (0)
- Reviewing the vertebrate fossil record (2017) (0)
- Pterosaurs, by Mark P. Witton. Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 2013, 291 pp., ISBN 978-0-691-15061-1 (2015) (0)
- Xenoposeidon Proneneukos Specimen Photo Oblique Right Anterolateral (2008) (0)
- The second Jurassic dinosaur rush: museums and paleontology in America at the turn of the twentieth century (2012) (0)
- Dinosaurs: a field guide/The Princeton field guide to dinosaurs (2013) (0)
- D. R. Prothero 2006. After the Dinosaurs. The Age of Mammals . xvi + 362 pp. Bloomington, Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. Price US $39.95 (hard covers). ISBN 0 253 34733 5. (2008) (0)
- Peer Review #2 of "Additional sauropod dinosaur material from the Callovian Oxford Clay Formation, Peterborough, UK: evidence for higher sauropod diversity (v0.2)" (2019) (0)
- Fossils explained 27: Theropod dinosaurs (1999) (0)
- Peer Review #2 of "Additional sauropod dinosaur material from the Callovian Oxford Clay Formation, Peterborough, UK: evidence for higher sauropod diversity (v0.1)" (2019) (0)
- A mixed vertebrate eggshell assemblage from the Transylvanian Late Cretaceous (2019) (0)
- African Dinosaurs Unearthed: the Tendaguru Expeditions, Gerhard Maier. Indiana University Press (2003), 380 pp, (HB), £37.95, ISBN: 0-253-34214-7 (2004) (0)
- A drowned Mesozoic bird breeding colony from the Late Cretaceous of Transylvania (2012) (0)
- Tetrapod Zoology Book One (2010) (0)
- Xenoposeidon Proneneukos gen. et sp. nov. Holotype (2008) (0)
- Barnum Brown: the man who discovered Tyrannosaurus rex (2011) (0)
- POSTCRANIAL PALAEONEUROLOGY PROVIDE INSIGHT INTO PTEROSAUR BEHAVIOUR AND LIFESTYLE ? NEW DATA FROM THE AZHDARCHOID VECTIDRACO (2018) (0)
- Xenoposeidon Proneneukos Specimen Photo Dorsal (2008) (0)
- FOSSIL VERTEBRATES | Flying Reptiles (2005) (0)
- Response to bousfield and LeBlond: Shooting pipefish in a barrel; Or, sauropterygian "mega-serpents" and occam's razor (2012) (0)
- Fossils explained 46: Ancient toothed whales (2004) (0)
- On the Unnecessary and Misleading Taxon “Cetartiodactyla” (2021) (0)
- Were the necks of Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus adapted for combat (2015) (0)
- The Strange Case of the Jurassic Ichthyosaur (2011) (0)
- Supplementary material from "The four-flipper swimming method of plesiosaurs enabled efficient and effective locomotion" (2017) (0)
- Maps Indicating Location of Ecclesbourne Glen (2008) (0)
- Will It Float (2011) (0)
- Xenoposeidon Proneneukos Specimen Photo Oblique Left Posterolateral (2008) (0)
- The probable azhdarchid trace fossil Haenamichnus uhangriensis. (2013) (0)
- Crocodilians (2001) (0)
- A European giant: a large spinosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Vectis Formation (Wealden Group, Early Cretaceous), UK (2022) (0)
- Modified skulls but conservative brains? The palaeoneurology and endocranial anatomy of baryonychine dinosaurs (Theropoda: Spinosauridae). (2023) (0)
- discovery: Ornithischia Dinosaurs of Great Britain and the role of the Geological Society of London in their (2008) (0)
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