Skeptophilia

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."...

A woman walks into the kitchen to find her husband on all fours, crawling around peering at the floor. "What are you doing?" she a...

Most people know of at least two reasons that organisms can evolve.  The first, of course, is natural selection; members of the same species...

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...