Skeptophilia

Currently I'm working my way through Mark McMenamin's book The Garden of Ediacara , an analysis of the fossil evidence from the Vend...

The early Cambrian Period was known for having some weird-looking animals, but even by Cambrian standards, Saccorhytus coronarius  was prett...

Starfish are odd creatures in just about every respect. They belong to a phylum called Echinodermata , which is Greek for "spiny skin...

In recent posts we have dealt with sending a binary message to extraterrestrial intelligence, helicopters in ancient Egypt, and a creature i...

Sometimes I think I spend too much time railing against specious, unscientific thinking, and not enough time celebrating the wonderful disco...