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melittle.jpg Brian Switek is an ecology & evolution student at Rutgers University.

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November 30, 2007

An Amendment to Be

Category: Politics

A satirical clip of some recent conservative amendment proposals.

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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...

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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...

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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......

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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