Skeptophilia

Dear Readers: This is to let you know of some upcoming changes. Some of you might know I also write over at Substack , and over there have f...

One of the reasons I became a speculative fiction novelist is because I love to think about how the world would be if the rules were differe...

I'm currently reading Michael Novacek's fascinating book Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliffs , which is about the expeditions led by Nov...

One of the more puzzling aspects of evolutionary theory is the phenomenon of peripheral isolates . This term refers to widely-separated popu...

The difficulty with paleontology is its inherent limitations. There are, of course, things it's very good at.  In the hands of a skilled...

I've written here before about unusual paleontological discoveries -- illustrations of the fact that Darwin's lovely phrase "ma...

In northwestern Australia, there's an administrative region called Pilbara . Even though on a map, it looks kind of long and narrow, it...

Richard Feynman famously said, "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -- and you are the easiest person to fool."...