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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 20, 2009
Category: History of Science
A giraffe, photographed at the Bronx zoo. For me, no visit to the zoo is complete without stopping by to see the giraffes. They are among the most common of zoo animals, certainly, but I still find them fascinating....
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Category: Mammals
A young nyala (Tragelaphus angasii) nursing from its mother, photographed at the Bronx Zoo....
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November 19, 2009
Category: History of Science
At last long there was solid proof that humans had died in a real Noachian Deluge. That such an event had occurred was widely taken on faith by Christians, and the belief that world's geology had been formed by...
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Category: Mammals
An okapi (Okapia johnstoni), photographed at the Bronx Zoo....
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November 18, 2009
Category: Behavior
Via NatureBreak.org, a capuchin monkey bathes using a stolen orange; I think she is correct. Capuchin monkeys regularly rub citrus fruits on their fur and this activity appears to keep them free of parasites and keep some of the biting...
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Category: Mammals
A group of geladas (Theropithecus gelada) in pursuit of a troop member (off camera) that had made the faux pas of grooming the wrong female . Photographed at the Bronx Zoo....
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November 17, 2009
Category: Anthropology
During the past six million years or so several species of humans have simultaneously inhabited Earth at any one time, but today only one species, ours, remains. How did this come to be? This is the question behind part 3...
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Category: Mammals
A young Western gorilla (Gorilla gorilla), photographed at the Bronx Zoo....
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November 16, 2009
Category: Evolution
The display of horse evolution at the AMNH as created by W.D. Matthew. Price reproduced this illustration without permission in his creationist textbook The New Geology. The 1925 Scopes "Monkey Trial" put scientists on the defensive. It did not...
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Category: Mammals
A ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta), photographed at the Bronx Zoo....
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