Skeptophilia

When I was about thirty years old, I stumbled upon a copy of American anthropologist Tobias Schneebaum 's 1969 memoir Keep the River on ...

It's a little odd that someone as center-of-attention-phobic as I am has chosen something that is bound to garner close looks.  I'm ...

Because my reputation has apparently preceded me, I have now been sent a link five times to a news story about an alleged governmental meeti...

When I was in Ecuador in 2019, I was blown away by its natural beauty.  The cloud forests of the mid-altitude Andes are, far and away, the m...

Today we're back to the subject of cool archaeological discoveries, thanks to a couple of loyal readers of Skeptophilia  who sent me lin...

Today we take a trip into the past with three new discoveries from the world of archaeology, sent my way by my eagle-eyed friend and fellow ...

For a long time, one of the biggest evolutionary mysteries was the evolution of whales and dolphins. Even for someone steeped in the evoluti...

As a language geek, the loss of our ability to understand communication from past civilizations always strikes me as tragic. It's wors...

A general rule of historical anthropology is that societies only last so long, and inevitably go into decline and are superseded. The ca...

One of my favorite things about science is its ability to jolt us out of our preconceived notions. We all have common-sensical ideas about...