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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
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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March 31, 2009
Category: Anthropology
A cast of the lower jaw of Dryopithecus available through Ward's Natural Science Establishment. For most of anthropology's history tools had been thought to be the exclusive hallmark of humanity. That only our species could use and manufacture tools...
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Category: Mammals
A small-clawed otter (Aonyx cinerea), photographed at the National Zoo....
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March 30, 2009
Category: History of Science
The "reincarnated" Cohoes Mastodon. You can see him today at the Cohoes Public Library. (From Natural History) For decades we have been hearing of the designs of some ambitious scientists to bring the woolly mammoth back to life. I...
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Category: Cats
Rokan, a male Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) really wants to go inside. Photographed at the National Zoo....
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March 29, 2009
Category: Mammals
The skull of Dorudon, photographed at the National Museum of Natural History....
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March 28, 2009
Category: Blogging
Earlier this week Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum moved their blog, The Intersection, over to Discover. I think it was a good move for them, but their fresh start was immediately marred by a horde of hooting numbskulls. Many others...
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Category: Mammals
The skeleton of a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), photographed at the National Museum of Natural History. Notice the bone pathology around the roots of the teeth in the upper jaw....
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March 27, 2009
Category: Mammals
A giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla), photographed at the National Zoo....
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March 26, 2009
Category: Mammals
A mother gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) and her child. Photographed at the National Zoo. It may not be accurate to call our species "the third chimpanzee", but there can be no separation between apes and humans. We are apes. This...
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Category: Mammals
A mother gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) and her child. Photographed at the National Zoo....
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