Skeptophilia

I've always thought it was astonishing that anything short of extremely cold-adapted species could make it through an ice age. During th...

I've always wondered how our distant ancestors survived during the various ice ages. After all, we're mostly-hairless primates evolv...

When someone talks about getting a glimpse of prehistory from the modern landscape, usually what they're referring to is either (1) rock...

During my junior year as an undergraduate, I had to take a humanities elective as part of my degree requirements and settled upon a class in...

You're not alone if you immediately think "Africa" when you hear the word "rhinoceros."  The two largest and best-kn...

One of the arguments you'll hear from cryptid enthusiasts is that the various critters they claim are real are survivals.  Nessie, Mokel...

One of the problems with the modern industrialized worldview -- and yes, I know this is an overgeneralization, but still -- is our tendency ...