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Musings on evolution, the fossil record, and our place in nature
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.
December 31, 2008
Category: Blogging
Two thousand and eight has, to say the least, been a bizarre year for me. As I sit here watching the snow fall on a farm* nestled just outside the sprawl of Target stores and mini-malls in suburban New Jersey,...
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Category: Mammals
A white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), photographed in suburban New Jersey....
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December 30, 2008
Category: Shameless Plug
If you head over to National Geographic News, you can see my picks for the most important, most overlooked, and weirdest paleontology stories of 2008. Afarensis contributed picks for anthropology, and other prominent science bloggers did the same for their...
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Category: Books
Shortly after my wife and I were married in the summer of 2006, but before our apartment was lined with overstocked bookshelves, we used to make at least one weekly stop at the local public library. While she browsed...
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Category: Photography
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December 29, 2008
Category: Inverts
I would not have expected the Italian actress, model, author, and filmmaker Isabella Rossellini to have ever used the phrase "I will dig my palpae in her epigyne!", but in her series of short films, Green Porno, she does that...
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Category: Birds
A double-crested cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus), photographed at the Central Park Zoo....
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December 28, 2008
Category: Books
I have to admit that one of my favorite targets of criticism is the "Dinosauroid," which I have previously mentioned on this blog multiple times (with the more detailed treatments here, here, and here). Even though paleontologist Dale Russell and...
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Category: Mammals
The skeleton of a young chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), photographed at the American Museum of Natural History. If you look at the right first incisor carefully, you can see evidence of hypoplasia....
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December 27, 2008
Category: Mammals
A California sea lion (Zalophus californianus), photographed at the Central Park Zoo....
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