Skeptophilia

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...

Around my neck of the woods we like to complain a lot in spring about the blackflies and mosquitoes, but by and large, compared to most plac...

One of my favorite lectures in my AP Biology class was about how there's no such thing as a reptile. If you took your last biology class...

One of the most intriguing sets of life forms I've ever heard of is the Ediacaran Assemblage . It dates from the late Precambrian Era --...

In H. P. Lovecraft's wildly creepy story "The Shadow Out of Time," we meet a superintelligent alien race called the Yith who h...

Although you don't tend to hear much about it, the Ordovician Period was a very peculiar time in Earth's history. From beginning (4...

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...