Skeptophilia

The Ordovician Period was a strange time in Earth's (pre)history. It lasted a little over forty million years, from about 485 million ye...

Today's topic comes to us not because it's some earthshattering discovery that overturns what we've understood, but solely becau...

It's amazing what scientists sometimes miss. This is not meant to be any kind of indictment of scientists, or science in general.  I...

I am not superstitious -- something that regular readers of Skeptophilia  would hardly need pointed out -- but sometimes I think the univers...