Skeptophilia

In my post a few days ago about scary predators, I mentioned a curious feature of the prehistory of North America -- the Western Interior Se...

One of the most annoying things I run across regularly is when someone takes a perfectly good piece of scientific research and twists it to ...

I've been an avid birdwatcher for many years, and have been fortunate enough to travel to some amazingly cool places in search of avifau...

One difficulty in building evolutionary trees of life from fossil evidence is the fact that "simpler" doesn't necessarily mean...

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

Today's post comes to us purely from the "Okay, This Is Cool" department. I've been fascinated with plant taxonomy since l...

One of my favorite movies, which I have seen I don't even know how many times, is Jurassic Park . I'm honestly not much of a movie-w...

When I was an undergraduate, I think one of the most startling things I learned was how few prehistoric animals we actually know about. Like...

My wife and I reset some pavers in our front sidewalk a couple of days ago.  In our area, most of the stone used for paving and wall-buildin...

In H. P. Lovecraft's wildly creepy story "The Shadow Out of Time," we meet a superintelligent alien race called the Yith who h...

I grew up around plants.  Well, everyone does, more or less, but my parents were dedicated gardeners and naturalists.  My dad grew show-qual...