Skeptophilia

It's amazing how many attempts it took for primates to successfully colonize North America. There's only one primate species current...

Ellesmere Island would be high on the list of the Earth's most inhospitable places. It's huge, only slightly smaller in area than B...

Humans, chimps, and bonobos share a little over 99% of their DNA . That remaining just-under-one-percent accounts for every physical differe...

I always find it wryly amusing when I hear someone talk about the Strong Anthropic Principle  -- the idea that the universe was fine-tuned b...

Earlier this week I looked at three cool archaeological discoveries -- cave art in Indonesia, and two finds in Egypt, one of a bone from som...

My long-ago professor of evolutionary biology, Dr. Andrew Collins, once said, "The only reason humans came up with the concept of speci...

Following on the heels of yesterday's post about Dr. Melba Ketchum and the maybe-perhaps-sort-of confirmation of Sasquatch DNA from a ha...