Skeptophilia

When we've gone to the Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., I always gravitate toward the prehistoric animals. I guess that...

Sometimes all it takes is one new discovery to send scientists back to the drawing board. Of course, as astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson c...

One of the most interesting, and persistent, misconceptions about evolutionary biology revolves around the use of the word "primitive...

We're all aware of animals with venomous bites -- most of the familiar ones being either snakes or spiders.  It's an interesting top...

Yesterday, we dealt with how freaking huge the universe is.  Today, we're going to look at something that, on its own scale, is also fre...

Today we're going to turn our attention once more to the distant past, for three stories about three very strange extinct animals. The...

One of the coolest things about evolution is how structures get repurposed -- a process that results in numerous examples of homologous stru...

Dear Skeptophiles, This is just to let you know that I'll be going on a wee hiatus to attend the annual Writers' Retreat held by m...

It's interesting how the scientific version of urban legends can be incorporated into people's knowledge of how things work, and bec...