Skeptophilia

252 million years ago, the Earth was hit by a confluence of Very Unfortunate Events. First, most of the large continental land masses locked...

I don't understand why, amongst prehistoric animals, dinosaurs get all the attention. Don't get me wrong, I like dinosaurs just fine...

I've written here before about the Permian-Triassic Extinction , sometimes nicknamed "the Great Dying."  It occurred 251.9 mil...

Whenever we have a wet summer -- not an uncommon occurrence in our rainy climate -- we have a plague of little pests trying to get into our ...

Two weeks ago, I wrote about a surprising fossil find in China showing that insects had rebounded after the horrific Permian-Triassic Extin...

I vividly recall my first visit to the American Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC, perhaps fifteen years ago.  Having a fascinati...

If I can be allowed to geek out a little, today's post is about two new discoveries in the field of paleontology. The mid- Permian per...

So once again I've been sent a link several times with either "Oh, lord, here we go again" or "Ha!  This is real!  You s...