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A few days ago I finished reading the wonderful new book by paleontologist Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinct...

Springboarding off yesterday's post, about a discovery of fossils that seem to have come from animals killed the day the Chicxulub Meteo...

I've written here before about the rather sobering topic of mass extinctions, and from what reading I've done on the topic, it alway...

For me, one of the coolest things about science is that even once you think you've got something pretty well figured out, you can always...

I've dealt more than once here at Skeptophilia  with the repeated mass extinctions the Earth has undergone.  Part of this is that I have...

As far as scary critters go, you'd have to look hard to find one scarier than the elasmosaurs . If you've never seen an artist...

Some of you have probably bumped into articles in the last week or so about a phenomenal discovery in paleontology --  a fossil bed in North...

Having a rather morbid fascination with things that are big and scary and dangerous and can kill you, I've dealt more than once with top...