Photo of the Day #418: Fossa
Category: Mammals
A fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox), photographed at the Bronx Zoo....
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Laelaps
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. - Terry Pratchett
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Laelaps is the blog of Brian Switek, a freelance science writer based in New Jersey. This blog frequently features his musings on paleontology, evolution, and the history of science. Switek also blogs for Smithsonian magazine's Dinosaur Tracking.
Switek's first book, Written in Stone, will be published next year by Bellevue Literary Press.
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November 29, 2008
John Daniel, the civilized gorilla
Category: History of Science
It wasn't so long ago that, if the price was right, you could buy an ape. Plucked from Africa and sent to Europe and America, apes often changed hands several times for large sums of money before expiring after...
Posted by Brian Switek at 5:07 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Photo of the Day #416: Amur tiger
Category: Cats
An Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), photographed at the Bronx Zoo....
Posted by Brian Switek at 8:51 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 28, 2008
For the love of animals
Category: Primates
When the topic of "animal rights" comes up here on Sb, it is often in the unfortunate context of a recent terrorist attack on a lab or researcher's home. These events are deplorable, but we should take care to...
Posted by Brian Switek at 11:00 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Photo of the Day #415: Amur tiger
Category: Cats
An Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), photographed at the Bronx Zoo....
Posted by Brian Switek at 9:14 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 27, 2008
Happy Annual Dinosaur Dissection Day!
Category: Cats
more animals Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! I hope you all get to enjoy the holiday, and if you are looking for something to do while you're waiting for the roast dinosaur to make it to the table, check out my latest...
Posted by Brian Switek at 8:50 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Photo of the Day #414: Ebony langur
Category: Mammals
An ebony langur (Trachypithecus auratus), photographed at the Bronx Zoo....
Posted by Brian Switek at 8:09 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 26, 2008
Little troglodytes
Category: History of Science
"Fighting the Mammoth," from The Rise of Man. In efforts to understand evolution, identification of transitional forms has been extremely important. Presently the fossil record offers ample evidence of how one type of organism was modified into something distinct,...
Posted by Brian Switek at 10:11 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Five Things Meme
Category: Administrative
I only just noticed that Janet tagged me with the 5 Things meme. Here we go... 5 Things I Was Doing 10 Years Ago: Absolutely despising high school Taekwondo (2nd degree black belt) Being an emo kid before I even...
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Photo of the Day #413: Black-crested gibbons
Category: Mammals
A pair of black-crested gibbons (Nomascus concolor), photographed at the Bronx Zoo....
Posted by Brian Switek at 6:05 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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