Skeptophilia

Although you don't tend to hear much about it, the Ordovician Period was a very peculiar time in Earth's history. From beginning (4...

A pair of words biologists (and interested laypeople) have to be careful with are primitive and advanced . They're often used in place ...

One of the reasons I love science is its capacity for inducing wonder. Albert Einstein said it best: "Joy in looking and comprehending ...

I live only a few miles from the tallest waterfall in the eastern half of North America, which is not Niagara Falls but Taughannock Falls. T...

The early Cambrian Period was known for having some weird-looking animals, but even by Cambrian standards, Saccorhytus coronarius  was prett...

One of the biggest mysteries in paleontology is what caused the Cambrian Explosion . You probably know that the Cambrian Explosion is when, ...

One of the most mystifying, and therefore (to me) one of the most fascinating, paleontological finds is the fauna of the  Ediacaran Assembla...

One of the most puzzling and fascinating questions in evolutionary biology is what kicked off the Cambrian Explosion . One striking thing ...

There's a logical fallacy called the Argument from Personal Incredulity .  The idea here is that you look at something from nature, and ...