Skeptophilia

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

My office window looks out over our raised-bed gardens and into our front yard.  It's still chilly early spring here in upstate New York...

It's estimated that of the five billion species of organisms that have ever existed on Earth, something like 99.99% of them are extinct....

The way things are, sometimes it's nice to find a bit of good news to focus on.  Today's good news comes to us by way of my dear wri...

The adage goes, "Extinction is forever." It's a sobering thought.  There's been talk of "de-extinction" -- using...

Humans have amazingly short memories. I suppose that there's at least some benefit to this.  Unpleasant events in our lives would be far...

The iconic movie Jurassic Park  has provided us with quite a number of quotable lines: "I hate it when I'm always right." ...

I think if I had to choose one extinct species to bring back, it would be the thylacine ( Thylacinus cynocephalus ).  Second place would be ...

For me, one of the coolest things about science is that even once you think you've got something pretty well figured out, you can always...

One of the hazards of becoming more aware of how biased and (sometimes) duplicitous popular media can be is that you might finally, de facto...