Skeptophilia

What do you know about the founding of New England? No, not that  New England, the other one.  Although there are some significant parallel...

I mean no disrespect to archaeologists, but there's a fundamental difficulty with trying to understand a vanished culture when all you h...

In the episode of The X Files  called "Ice," some geophysicists working in northern Alaska bring up a 250,000 year old ice core fr...

I'm always drawn to a historical mystery. The difficulty, of course, is given that a huge amount of our history has either highly unreli...

In the first pages of Stephen King's book The Tommyknockers , a woman out walking her dog in rural Maine stubs her toe on an object prot...

Let me say up front, both for my skeptical and not-so-skeptical readers, that I'm not saying I believe the account I'm about to tell...

Seven years ago, I wrote a post here at Skeptophilia  about one of the most enduring mysteries of the twentieth century -- the deaths of nin...

Attention pet lovers: do you want a truly unique, unusual pet?  One that will be the talk of the town?  If so, there's a once-in-a-lifet...

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...