An Amendment to Be
Category: Politics
A satirical clip of some recent conservative amendment proposals.
Posted by Brian Switek at 11:33 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Laelaps
Musings on evolution, the fossil record, and our place in nature
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Laelaps is the blog of freelance science writer Brian Switek. This blog frequently features his musings on paleontology, evolution, and the history of science. Switek also blogs for Smithsonian magazine's Dinosaur Tracking, and he is a research associate at the New Jersey State Museum.
Switek's first book, Written in Stone, will be published on November 1, 2010 by Bellevue Literary Press.
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November 30, 2007
Patience...
Category: Shameless Plug
I'm hard at work on my sail-backs vs. buffalo-backs post (as well as another piece for later today about evolution as fact and theory), but if you're looking for some interesting reading here's a smattering of links I think you...
Posted by Brian Switek at 2:39 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Photo of the Day #53: Indricotherium (or Paraceratherium?)
Category: Paleontology
Indricotherium, the largest land mammal that ever lived as far as we know, must have been an impressive sight as it browsed among the trees of the early Miocene landscape of central Asia. Back then it didn't have a...
Posted by Brian Switek at 7:35 AM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 29, 2007
Run away!
Category: Shameless Plug
Here's a gift idea for any Monty Python fans you might know (and another here). Now if only there were a Night of the Lepus life-sized plush......
Posted by Brian Switek at 1:41 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Shoulder Cats are the latest fashion
Category: Cats
A few weeks ago I posted a picture of Hermes, a kitten that I was fostering in my apartment and has found a loving home. When Hermes left, though, another kitten needed a home and his name was Cole,...
Posted by Brian Switek at 12:48 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Fossil Jackpot!
Category: Dinosaurs
According to a new article in The Times, an extremely productive Cretaceous bone bed has been found at Lo Hueco near the city of Cuenca (somewhere between Madrid and Valencia) in Spain, diggers for a rail project stumbling across the...
Posted by Brian Switek at 12:24 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Eotriceratops xerinsularis!
Category: Dinosaurs
A close-up of the Triceratops mount on display at the AMNH. Ornithischian dinosaurs don't often get much attention, perhaps because some groups (i.e. hadrosaurs) are often viewed as the "cows" of the Mesozoic, having almost the exact same body...
Posted by Brian Switek at 9:38 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Photo of the Day #52: Blastocerus
Category: Mammals
I had some amount of difficulty finding information about this animal, Blastocerus, because the plaque describing it at the AMNH called it "Blastoceros" and that was the name I attempted to look up. Once I learned of the mistake,...
Posted by Brian Switek at 7:44 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 28, 2007
CHOMP!
Category: Dinosaurs
Tyrannosaurus rex is by far the most famous of dinosaurs, a creature that looms large in the field of paleontology as well as in the media. This amount of attention has caused plenty of controversy but it has also...
Posted by Brian Switek at 4:25 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Paleo Teaser
Category: Paleontology
Things have been a little hectic lately, making me put off my long discussion on extinct sail-backed tetrapods, but today I heard about two new papers that definitely need some attention. A few bloggers have already mentioned the papers I...
Posted by Brian Switek at 10:38 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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