Depending on what your view was, originally, of course. I've got a review of the piece published in PLoS here at Surprising Science. Where I am blogging for this week and next.
Greg Laden's Blog
Evolution, Life Sciences, Science Education, Human Evolution, and Stuff
Learn more about Charles Darwin and his work.
Looking for stuff about birds?
Lean more about lions
An archaeological expedition to the Congo
The Skeptical Search Engine
The contents of Greg Laden's Blog are copyrighted by Greg Laden.
Recent Comments
- Lotharsson on HeartlandGate: Anti-Science Institute's Insider Reveals Secrets
- Jonathan Eisen on HeartlandGate: Anti-Science Institute's Insider Reveals Secrets
- daedalus2u on HeartlandGate: Anti-Science Institute's Insider Reveals Secrets
- daedalus2u on HeartlandGate: Anti-Science Institute's Insider Reveals Secrets
- Greg Laden on Charles Darwin, Geologist
- Andrew C. Holmes on Charles Darwin, Geologist
- Calli Arcale on Environmentally Friendly Hard Drive Case
- Calli Arcale on The grey squirrel from a birder's point of view
- Don Parnell on The grey squirrel from a birder's point of view
- Don Parnell on The grey squirrel from a birder's point of view
Search
Profile
Click on "About" for the big picture, and "Archives" for the details.
Recent Posts
- 2011 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners
- HeartlandGate: Anti-Science Institute's Insider Reveals Secrets
- Charles Darwin, Geologist
- Looking for stuff about birds?
- Environmentally Friendly Hard Drive Case
- Charles Darwin February 12, 1809 - April 19, 1882
- Whitney Houston has died
- Lions!
- Changing the rep of Fungi one mushroom-based robot thingie-builder at a time
- More Mississippi Meanderings
Blogroll
If you don't see yourself on my blogroll, just drop me a line and let me know. I'll add you.*- 10,000 Birds
- Alpha Meme
- a Nadder!
- Angry by Choice
- Armchair Dissident
- (((Billy))) The Atheist
- blogfish
- blogSci
- Blond Nonbeliever
- Blue Lion Blog
- Bug Girl's Blog
- Camels with Hammers
- Catalogue of Oganisms
- Cassandra's Tears
- Class M Planet
- Climate Bites
- Cocktail Party Physics
- Counter Minds
- Cranky Linguist, The
- Crowded Head, Cozy Bed
- Dead Racist Society
- Deep Sea News
- Dispersal of Darwin
- Divine Afflatus
- Dread Tomato Addiction
- Evil is Underrated
- Evolved and Rational
- Evolving in Kansas
- Evolving Thoughts
- Fellman Studio Blog
- Flying Trilobite
- Further Thoughts
- Hoxful Monsters
- ICBS Everywhere
- Illusory Tenant
- It's Alive!!
- Jafcisa
- Letters from a Broad
- Life Before Death
- Looking For Detachment
- Matharu's Rants and Raves
- Mors dei
- Natural Reckonings
- Nature Blog Network
- Providentia
- Qeyḥ bāḥrī
- Quiche Moraine
- Religion, Sets, and Politics
- Sandwalk
- Sarah Zielinski
- Science Notes
- The Seething Primate
- Skepchick
- Spanish Inquisitor
- Splendid Elles
- Survival Machine
- Synapostasy
- TalkOrigins
- Tangled Up in Blue Guy
- Tetrapod Zoology
- The Flying Trilobite
- The Inoculated Mind
- The Intersection
- The Loom (new)
- The Scientific Activist
- The Unexamined Life..
- The Zone
- Thinking for Free
- Think Progress
- Three Toed Sloth
- Toomanytribbles
- Traumatized by Truth
- Truth Is a Woman
- udreamofjanie
- Uncommon Liberty
- View from the Pond
- Vickie Henderson Art
- When Pigs Fly Returns
- Writer's Daily Grind
Archives
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
« Who used the "Confndus" spell on George Bush? | Main | Everything but the kitchen sink .. »
New research changes our view of the origin of the Komodo Dragon
Posted on: September 30, 2009 8:30 PM, by Greg Laden
TrackBacks
TrackBack URL for this entry: http://scienceblogs.com/mt/pings/121164
Comments
Hmm, they are not registered at ResearchBlogging.org over there?
Posted by: Coturnix | September 30, 2009 9:18 PM
I don't actually know. I wrote that up while I was at the cabin using the laptop and the crappy internet connection between bouts of trenching and chopping firewood and stuff, so I kind of let that drop for this one. I will check, though.
Posted by: Greg Laden | September 30, 2009 9:23 PM
Did the article not mention how the Komodos may have reached the Indonesian islands? If they reached Java, that means crossing the Wallace line, not an easy think to do, it seems. I see one of the co-authors is Mike Morwood, one of the co-discoverers of the Flores hobbit, who gives much coverage to species dispersal questions in his book.
Posted by: John Monfries | September 30, 2009 11:42 PM
Greg thanks for the link to the Smithsonian. Those giant Komodos must have been very scary in Australia. Great article.
Posted by: JefFlyingV | October 1, 2009 12:41 AM
I believe the Komodo Dragon is the world's largest living lizard.
B&R
Posted by: Don Cates | October 1, 2009 1:06 AM
John: I'll bet they can swim really well.... But yes, the article may mention that (can't remember, I read it like a week ago). But YOU can read it because it is OpenAccess!!!
Posted by: Greg Laden | October 1, 2009 1:12 AM
Thanks, I'll do that.
Mike Morwood obviously has ambitions to be a wizard - first hobbits, now lizards (ie Smaug, sorry - Tolkien reader here)
Posted by: John Monfries | October 1, 2009 3:35 AM
You forgot to add the media blurb that automatically goes with stories like this" New research on Komodo Dragon completely rewrites Theory of Evolution..."
Posted by: IanW | October 1, 2009 5:49 AM
Took the ex and the kid to here today, and told her this story while looking at the Komodo dragon in the exhibit.
When did Indonesia and Australia separate btw?
Posted by: Rorschach | October 1, 2009 6:06 AM
Rorschach: Western Indonesia never separated from anything .... it is just a bunch of froth riding atop the interaction zone between two plates. The part next to New Guinea is still firmly attached to Austrlia, but separated by sea water that only inundates the continent during full-on interglacials. So, for much of the last 120 thousand years or so, they were connected or very close. All the bits in between are very messsy geologically speaking.
Posted by: Greg Laden | October 1, 2009 9:03 AM
Thanks Greg !
Posted by: Rorschach | October 2, 2009 5:19 AM