Photo of the Day #932: Gorilla
Category: Mammals
A young lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla), photographed at the Bronx Zoo....
Posted by Brian Switek at 1:34 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Laelaps
Musings on evolution, the fossil record, and our place in nature
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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.
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May 31, 2010
Repost: The species that domesticated itself
Category: Anthropology
The skull of Paranthropus boisei ("Zinj," "Dear Boy," "Nutcracker Man," etc.). Louis Leakey had a problem. During the summer of 1959 he and his wife Mary recovered the skull fragments of an early human scattered about the fossil deposits...
Posted by Brian Switek at 10:43 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 30, 2010
Photo of the Day #931: Laughing kookaburra
Category: Birds
A laughing kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae), photographed at the Bronx Zoo....
Posted by Brian Switek at 1:29 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 29, 2010
Photo of the Day #930: Okapi
Category: Mammals
An okapi ((Okapia johnstoni), photographed at the Bronx Zoo....
Posted by Brian Switek at 1:26 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 28, 2010
Photo of the Day #929: Ebony langur
Category: Mammals
An ebony langur (Trachypithecus auratus), photographed at the Bronx Zoo....
Posted by Brian Switek at 1:20 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Repost: Suminia: Life in the Trees 260 Million Years Ago
Category: Paleontology
Color-coded diagram of a small bone bed containing at least twelve individuals of the Permian synapsid Suminia. From Frobisch and Reisz (2009) When I hear the phrase "early human relative" I cannot help but think of an ape-like creature....
Posted by Brian Switek at 10:52 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 27, 2010
Photo of the Day #928: California sea lion
Category: Mammals
A young California sea lion (Zalophus californianus), photographed at the Bronx Zoo....
Posted by Brian Switek at 1:16 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Fossil dog lived alongside "Lucy's baby"
Category: Mammals
Paleontologists describe a new species of fossil dog which lived alongside our ancestors 3.4 million years ago in Africa.
Posted by Brian Switek at 11:00 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 26, 2010
Photo of the Day #927: Huon tree kangaroo
Category: Mammals
A huon tree kangaroo (Dendrolagus matschiei), photographed at the Bronx Zoo....
Posted by Brian Switek at 1:11 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Fish was fossil frog's last meal
Category: Amphibians
A rare specimen of a 24 million year old frog affords paleontologists with a look at a long-lost ecosystem.
Posted by Brian Switek at 11:00 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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