Skeptophilia

The environmentalists tell us "extinction is forever," and that certainly seems unarguable.  Once a species is lost, evolution wil...

George Wynn Brereton Huntingford was a British anthropologist, linguist, and historian, who traveled widely and was famed for his perceptiv...

Scientists have an undeserved reputation for being dry and humorless. If you doubt the "undeserved" part, consider scientific name...

One of the things I love most about science is its capacity to astonish us. You can be really knowledgeable in a field, and then the natural...

The diversity you find among birds is really remarkable. There are differences in bill shape, from the weird angled beaks of flamingos, to t...

One consistent misapprehension a lot of people have about evolution is that the process of natural selection always leads toward organisms b...

As an avid birdwatcher, I've learned many of the vocalizations of our local species.  Some, especially the migratory species we only hea...

One of the most frustrating of logical fallacies is the No True Scotsman fallacy. It gets its name from an almost certainly apocryphal story...

While I've been known to make fun of the cryptid hunters, there's something to be said for their persistence. Not only do we have pe...