Photo of the Day #865: American avocet
Category: Birds
An American avocet (Recurvirostra americana), photographed at Antelope Island, Utah....
Posted by Brian Switek at 8:22 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Laelaps
Musings on evolution, the fossil record, and our place in nature
Profile
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.
Switek's first book, Written in Stone, will be published on November 1, 2010 by Bellevue Literary Press.
Search
Recent Posts
- This Blog Has Moved
- A Pepsi-Induced
HiatusExodus - Funky Worms Cause Ants to Mimic Fruit
- Photo of the Day #953: Collared brown lemur baby
- Pleased to meet you
- Photo of the Day #952: Bryce Canyon
- Photo of the Day #951: Dinosaur toe
- What's eating you? - Bugs, bacteria, and zombies
- Eureka!
- Deceitful Male Topi Raise False Alarms to Keep Females Nearby
Recent Comments
- markoting on Poor, poor Ida, Or: "Overselling an Adapid"
- dan on Have the hunting habits of leopards shaped primate evolution?
- geraldine on John Daniel, the civilized gorilla
- hastaneotomasyonu on Book Review: A History of Paleontology Illustration
- Artikelkatalog on What's eating you? - Bugs, bacteria, and zombies
- konteyner on Tyrannosaurus yeck?: Another look at preserved proteins
- Darryl on Book Review: Richard Owen: Biology Without Darwin
- Mr. Turd on How sucker-winged bats hang on
- Mr. TurD on How sucker-winged bats hang on
- hava perdeleri on What's eating you? - Bugs, bacteria, and zombies
Archives
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
Blogroll
Paleo
- Dinosaur Tracking
- The Coastal Paleontologist
- Aquatic Amniotes
- SV-POW!
- Afarensis
- The World We Don't Live In
- Paleo Errata
- Archosaur Musings
- Chinleana
- Ediacaran
- The Life of Madygen
- Dracovenator
- The Ethical Palaeontologist
- Bond's Blog
- Paleo Dude
- Dinochick
- The Open Source Paleontologist
- The Disillusioned Taxonomist
- Everything Dinosaur
- Hairy Museum of Natural History
- John Hawks
- Mark Witton
- microecos
- The Dragon's Tales
- When Pigs Fly Returns
- Self-Designed Student
- Palaeoblog
Zoology
- The Loom
- Photo Africa Blog
- Mainly Mongoose
- Catalogue of Organisms
- Endless Forms
- Rigor Vitae
- The Lord Geekington
- The Daily Coyote
- Cephalopodcast
- The Other 95%
- Deep Sea News
Ecology
History of Science
- A Simple Prop
- Evolving Thoughts
- Skulls in the Stars
- Archy
- Ether Wave Propaganda
- FCD: The Red Notebook
- Millard Fillmore's Bathtub
- The Dispersal of Darwin
- Thoughts in a Haystack
- The Beagle Project Blog
- Transcribing Tyndall
Geology
Miscellany
- The Sandwalk
- Migrations
- Gurney Journey
- Skepchick
- Dispatches from Carbon Nation
- Cocktail Party Physics
- Peculiar Beauty
- The Digital Cuttlefish
- The Flying Trilobote
- The Panda's Thumb
- RedMolly Picayune Democrat
Fellow Sciblings
February 28, 2010
February 27, 2010
"You just call out my name...": Friendships in Male and Female Baboons
Category: Behavior
Male (right) and female (left, with infant) friends in a population of Chacma baboons. (From Palombit, 2009). Among other things, friends are people you count on to come to your aid when you need help. If you were at...
Posted by Brian Switek at 11:08 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 26, 2010
Photo of the Day #864: Canada geese
Category: Birds
Canada geese (Branta canadensis), photographed in Mt. Kisco, New York....
Posted by Brian Switek at 3:39 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Presenting the cover of Written in Stone
Category: Books
Today is my 27th birthday. To celebrate Tracey and I were planning on visiting Philadelphia's Mutter Museum and the Academy of Natural Sciences, but given the deep accumulation of snow we thought better of going into the city. I can...
Posted by Brian Switek at 9:44 AM • 27 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 25, 2010
Photo of the Day #863: Coyote
Category: Mammals
A coyote (Canis latrans), photographed in Yellowstone National Park....
Posted by Brian Switek at 5:22 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
An early look at Life: A Komodo dragon hunt
Category: Behavior
In a clip from the BBC series "Life" a Komodo dragon attacks a water buffalo, marking the beginning of the end of the buffalo's life.
Posted by Brian Switek at 1:27 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 24, 2010
Photo of the Day #862: Cuban crocodile
Category: Photography
A Cuban crocodile (Crocodylus rhombifer), photographed at the National Zoo in Washington, DC....
Posted by Brian Switek at 7:33 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
"Horned" crocodile may have preyed upon prehistoric humans
Category: Paleontology
Over the past 6 million years hominins have had to worry about becoming lunch for a variety of predators, from eagles to leopards. In the journal PLoS One paleontologists have just identified another; a 1.8 million year old crocodile that may have had a taste for the early humans that inhabited Olduvai Gorge.
Posted by Brian Switek at 6:16 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 23, 2010
Photo of the Day #861: Edmontosaurus
Category: Dinosaurs
A reconstruction of a dead Edmontosaurus on display at the Museum of Ancient Life at Thanksgiving Point, Utah....
Posted by Brian Switek at 8:33 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Jerry Fodor: Still getting it wrong about evolution
Category: Evolution
Way back in 2007, when I was still a neophyte science blogger, Rutgers University philosophy professor Jerry Fodor published an op-ed in the London Review of Books called "Why Pigs Don't Have Wings." It was a critique of a...
Posted by Brian Switek at 1:01 PM • 45 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Previous
Next
