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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.
July 14, 2010
Category: Administrative
Laelaps is back up and running at my author website, http://brianswitek.com. Go there for new posts and updates on where this blog will ultimately settle. - Brian Update (09/14/10): After a few months of blogging on my own, I'm proud...
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July 7, 2010
Category: Administrative
Important Update: The time has come to close things up here. I will no longer be blogging for ScienceBlogs.com. I am not sure where Laelaps will end up - perhaps back on Wordpress, perhaps elsewhere - but you can be...
Posted by Brian Switek at 10:18 AM • 95 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 6, 2010
Category: Behavior
Some giant gliding ants in the rainforests of Central and South America have been undergoing startling transformations - changes caused by a newly-discovered parasitic worm.
Posted by Brian Switek at 12:23 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 5, 2010
Category: Mammals
A collared brown lemur (Eulemur collaris) baby, photographed at the Bronx Zoo....
Posted by Brian Switek at 7:56 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 4, 2010
Category: Blogging
"Worker Bee" by Motion City Soundtrack I have been writing here at ScienceBlogs.com for about two years and nine months now. Some of you have been reading my posts since I started here (thank you for sticking with me!),...
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Category: Geology
Rock formations near the "Natural Bridge" turnout in Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah.....
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July 2, 2010
Category: Dinosaurs
A toe bone from a Cretaceous ornithischian dinosaur, just laying on the ground. Photographed at Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah....
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July 1, 2010
Category: Anthropology
Zombies are notorious consumers of human flesh, but what's eating them?
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Category: Blogging
Good news, everyone! Check out the new issue of the Times of London science magazine Eureka for two stories by yours truly on dinosaurs and paleontology.
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