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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.
April 30, 2009
Category: Creationism
If you want to aggravate an intelligent design advocate all you have to do is point out the obvious. Everybody knows that intelligent design is just warmed-over creationism, but some creationists love trying to create a false dichotomy between...
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Category: Evolution
The skull of Dorudon, photographed at the National Museum of Natural History. There has been much ado about the new BioLogos website during the past week (see here and here), and most of it has focused on the site's...
Posted by Brian Switek at 10:50 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Dinosaurs
The news has already broken at SV-POW! and Tetrapod Zoology, but in case you haven't heard Mike Taylor has successfully defended his Ph.D.! This is wonderful news. I am sure that the study of sauropods will benefit from his continued...
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Category: Mammals
A domesticated horse (Equus ferus caballus), photographed in suburban New Jersey....
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April 29, 2009
Category: History of Science
A view from inside the cave in which the "Yemisch" remains were found. [source] It was not so long ago that tales of an awful creature that stalked the pampas of Patagonia were commonly told. It was difficult, if...
Posted by Brian Switek at 9:15 AM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Birds
An Eastern goldfinch (Carduelis tristis), photographed in suburban New Jersey....
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April 28, 2009
Category: Birds
A tufted titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor), photographed in suburban New Jersey....
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April 27, 2009
Category: History of Science
An illustration of the mammoth that accompanied Tukeman's story. From the McClure's Magazine. In October of 1899 McClure's Magazine ran a rather curious article by Henry Tukeman. Called "The Killing of the Mammoth" it began with a letter penned...
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Category: Birds
A group of herring gulls (Larus argentatus) tries to avoid an incoming wave. Photographed at Spring Lake, New Jersey....
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April 26, 2009
Category: Paleontology
After a long wait, the new Palaeontologia Electronica is now online! It even includes a review of Jane Davidson's A History of Paleontology Illustration by yours truly. Check it out!...
Posted by Brian Switek at 7:46 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
