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Paleontology:
Attenborough's Flying Monsters 3D Is Going To Be Good
Category: Paleontology
David Attenborough is about to come out with a 3D movie on pterosaurs. I've seen a bunch of it and it looks to be quite good.
Posted by Greg Laden at 4:14 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A Very Cool Ancient Crocodile
Category: Crocodile
I have never actually seen a snake eat a crocodile or a crocodile eat a snake, but I am pretty sure I've seen a snake planning to eat a Nile Croc. And that was in the geological present. In the geological past, about 60 million...
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:35 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Eocene Florida Plant Remains = Rethink Local Geology A Little
Category: Paleontology
This ancient find is not a missing link.
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:52 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Falsehood: Is it ever OK to use the term "Missing Link"?
Category: Falsehoods II
Today's falsehood1 is the idea of "The Missing Link." You've heard about The Missing Link. You'll hear that some palaeontologist has discovered something and they tell us it is "The Missing Link." Often, it is a supposed "link" between some ancestor of humans (a fossil...
Posted by Greg Laden at 4:55 PM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Newly Discovered Giant Flores Stork
Category: Paleontology
A stork big enough to have delivered ADULT hobbits? Well, maybe not, but it is a cool find of an extinct bird in an interesting place.
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:57 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
NASA's new organism, the meaning of life, and Darwin's Second Theory
Category: Origin of Life
What is the meaning of GFAJ-1 from Mono Lake?
Posted by Greg Laden at 3:34 PM • 199 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A Whale of a Missing Link : Indohyus
Category: missing link
I'm writing something about the concept of "The Missing Link" which may also end up as an episode of "Everything you Know is Sort of Wrong" on Skeptically Speaking. The fact that I'm working on this is of no interest to you, I'm sure, until...
Posted by Greg Laden at 6:16 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Natural Selection vs. Opportunity in Macroevolutionary Patterning of the Fossil Record
Category: Natural Selection
I'm going to talk about one or two peer reviewed papers, but in doing so, I'm going to have to say a few words ... and this will not be pretty ... about a certain science writer's report at the BBC.
Posted by Greg Laden at 8:49 AM • 29 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Darwin's Universe: Evolution from A to Z (a free excerpt)
Category: dinosaurs
... from the National Center for Science Education. Click the picture to get the PDF of Darwin's Universe: Evolution from A to Z ....
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