Skeptophilia

The earliest living things, way back in the Precambrian Era, were almost certainly either autotrophs (those that could produce their own nut...

One of the biggest mysteries in paleontology is what caused the Cambrian Explosion . You probably know that the Cambrian Explosion is when, ...

My favorite animal is the flying fox . (Don't tell my dogs.) [Image licensed under the Creative Commons Andrew Mercer (www.baldwhiteguy...

You wouldn't think that fish living three miles deep in the ocean, far beneath the level that sunlight can penetrate, would worry much a...

Natural selection is such an amazing driver of diversity.  As Richard Dawkins showed so brilliantly in his tour-de-force  The Blind Watchmak...

Even if I sometimes present a rather cynical front, I really have a deep belief in the fundamental goodness of human nature.  Most of us, mo...