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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.
June 30, 2010
Category: Behavior
When male topi raise false alarms, females stay close, but how can we tell if the males are really telling lies?
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June 29, 2010
Category: Mammals
A lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla), photographed at the Bronx Zoo....
Posted by Brian Switek at 7:41 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Personal
After months of uncertainty, the short-term fate of the New Jersey State Museum has finally been announced.
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June 28, 2010
Category: Evolution
Animals which are generalists are often thought to be resistant to extinction, but new findings about the extinct Hundsheim rhinoceros suggest that its unspecialized diet may have been its undoing.
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June 27, 2010
Category: Birds
A bufflehead duck (Bucephala albeola), photographed at the Bronx Zoo....
Posted by Brian Switek at 5:28 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 26, 2010
Category: Plants
Photographed at Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah....
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June 25, 2010
Category: Paleontology
The early praise has started to come in - Written in Stone is "unique, informative and entertaining."
Posted by Brian Switek at 10:03 AM • 28 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 24, 2010
Category: Ecology
Within three decades of its discovery the largest sea cow to have ever lived was wiped out, but what was the most important factor in its quick extinction?
Posted by Brian Switek at 1:55 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 23, 2010
Category: Anthropology
A newly-described 3.6 million year old skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis helps to flesh out the prehistory of our lineage.
Posted by Brian Switek at 4:37 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 22, 2010
Category: Dinosaurs
A few weeks ago I started prep work on a Tyrannosaurus rex toe bone recovered from Montana's Hell Creek Formation and kept at the New Jersey State Museum. This is how the gypsum-encrusted bone looked when I started... ......
Posted by Brian Switek at 4:40 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
