Skeptophilia

There's a Senegalese expression that goes, "There are forty kinds of lunacy, but only one kind of common sense." The outcome o...

What comes to mind when you think about the Isle of Skye ? Chances are, it's one of three things. The first is the stunningly beautiful ...

One of the many things I find fascinating about the evolutionary model is how different lineages can happen on the same "solution"...

One thing science teaches us is that just about everything is interesting if you look at it carefully enough.  Still, there's an ingrain...

I know it seems like I keep ringing the changes on this topic over and over, but... it never fails to astonish me how much the Earth has cha...

Ever since I was a kid, my favorite group of dinosaurs has been the pterosaurs . These are one of the six groups of animals that independent...

I am forever astonished at the level of detail we can infer from fossils that are hundreds of millions of years old. The most recent example...

One of the many fascinating aspects of evolution is how nature happens upon the same solutions to environmental problems, over and over. Two...

Regular readers of Skeptophilia  might recall that about a year ago, paleontologists announced the discovery of a bird fossil from northeast...

Want a take on something familiar that will (probably) turn your mental image of it on its head? Picture dinosaurs.  Not just the dinosaurs ...

A few days ago I finished reading the wonderful new book by paleontologist Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinct...