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Brian Switek is an ecology & evolution student at Rutgers University.
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About Laelaps
The author of Laelaps in front of Charles Sternberg's famous "Trachodon (=Edmontosaurus) Mummy" at the AMNH in New York.
Laelaps is the blog of Rutgers University student Brian Switek, the most derived form of a number of more basal blogs that came before.
Charles R. Knight's famous "Leapin' Laelaps" painting, offering a more active and dynamic vision of dinosaurs than in many of Knight's other works.
Laelaps aquilunguis, from which the blog gets its name, was a Cretaceous tyrannosaurid dinosaur discovered by E.D. Cope in 1866, a predator that the famous osteophile would deem "the devourer and destroyer... of all... it could lay claws on." As fate would have it, however, the genus name Laelaps was already occupied by a variety of mite, and Cope's arch-rival O.C. Marsh remained the carnivorous dinosaur Dryptosaurus in 1877. Taxonomic rules aside, I still prefer the name Laelaps to Marsh's revision.
