Brian Switek is an ecology & evolution student at Rutgers University.
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September 30, 2008
Category: Blogging
Is it just me, or have some science blogs been running out of steam lately? I know earlier this year we had a number of people (either on their blogs or privately) express that they were considering giving up blogging...
Posted by Brian Switek at 6:41 PM • 16 Comments •
Category: Blogging
The next edition of the paleo-themed blog carnival The Boneyard (#24) will be on exhibition next Tuesday, October 7th, at The Other 95%. It would be nice if, in honor of the host, we could get some cool invert...
Posted by Brian Switek at 9:37 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: Cats
The Field Museum curator of mammals, Bruce Patterson, has recently returned from his field work in Tsavo, Kenya, and he has posted some of his excellent photography in a Kodak gallery. The shots are absolutely breathtaking; they almost make me...
Posted by Brian Switek at 7:31 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: Dinosaurs
This Sunday, October 5th, Drexel University paleontologist Ken Lacovara will be giving a lecture on Patagonian dinosaurs called "Giants at the End of the World." It will be at the recently re-opened New Jersey State Museum in Trenton, and it...
Posted by Brian Switek at 7:23 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: Mammals
A California sea lion (Zalophus californianus), photographed at the Bronx zoo....
Posted by Brian Switek at 6:08 AM • 0 Comments •
September 29, 2008
Category: The Great Book Project
Two updates in one day? Well, I was productive enough for it. There are still a few more things I have to add, mainly fine details and a few more examples (i.e. pneumatization in dinosaur skeletons), but the meat...
Posted by Brian Switek at 10:44 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Birds
During the 19th century most discussions of the earliest known bird, Archaeopteryx, focused on its relationship to other fossil reptiles, whether or not it could fly, and what it indicated about the origins of flight. A bird would not be...
Posted by Brian Switek at 1:09 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: The Great Book Project
After a lot of work, I finally got to covering what happened during the 1960's and 1970's in the bird evolution chapter. There are basically three phases that dominate the section; 1860-1926, 1968-1980, and the explosion of research spurred...
Posted by Brian Switek at 6:48 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: Cats
An Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), photographed at the Bronx zoo....
Posted by Brian Switek at 6:42 AM • 0 Comments •
September 28, 2008
Category: Birds
Sandpipers, photographed at Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge, Delaware....
Posted by Brian Switek at 9:04 AM • 0 Comments •
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