Brian Switek is an ecology & evolution student at Rutgers University.
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July 31, 2008
Category: Administrative
Things have been a little slow here on the ol' blog as of late, but for good reason. Outside of a schedule change that has thrown my writing off, I've been hard at work on my Huxley paper (which I...
Posted by Brian Switek at 6:19 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: Mammals
Western gorillas (Gorilla gorilla), photographed July 23th, 2008 at the Bronx zoo....
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July 30, 2008
Category: Dinosaurs
In 2005 the unexpected occurred; researchers reported what appeared to be preserved soft tissues inside the femur of a Tyrannosaurus rex excavated from the Hell Creek Formation. Structures that looked like blood vessels and blood cells were seen under the...
Posted by Brian Switek at 3:49 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: Cats
A snow leopard (Panthera uncia), photographed July 23th, 2008 at the Bronx zoo....
Posted by Brian Switek at 6:11 AM • 2 Comments •
July 29, 2008
Category: Dinosaurs
Tonight the first episode of the History channel program Jurassic Fight Club will air (I reviewed it here) and I definitely want to know what you think about it. Have at it in the comments....
Posted by Brian Switek at 2:24 PM • 12 Comments •
Category: Cats
Charlotte (the black one) and Dolly playing. Dolly went to the adoption center this past weekend. Dolly...
Posted by Brian Switek at 7:13 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: Mammals
A black-crested gibbon (Nomascus concolor), photographed July 23th, 2008 at the Bronx zoo....
Posted by Brian Switek at 6:43 AM • 3 Comments •
July 28, 2008
Category: College
When I first started attending Rutgers in the Fall of 2001 the university had the football coach come to speak to all the incoming freshman. Offering free red t-shirts he pleaded with students to start coming to the games, our...
Posted by Brian Switek at 12:05 PM • 10 Comments •
Category: History of Science
A silverback Western gorilla (Gorilla gorilla), photographed on July 23, 2008 at the Bronx zoo. During my elementary school years I was spoon-fed the classic, textbook mythology about evolutionary theory. Although Jean Baptiste Lamarck had come up with a...
Posted by Brian Switek at 10:08 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Mammals
A small-clawed otter (Aonyx cinerea), photographed July 23th, 2008 at the Bronx zoo....
Posted by Brian Switek at 6:05 AM • 2 Comments •
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