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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.
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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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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Category: Birds
A bufflehead duck (Bucephala albeola), photographed at the Bronx Zoo....
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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... ......
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Category: Birds
A keel-billed toucan (Ramphastos sulfuratus), photographed at the Central Park, Zoo....
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Category: Dinosaurs
On July 1st funding will be cut from New Jersey's state museum, but what will happen to this important state institution?
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Category: Birds
A male red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus), photographed in Cape Henlopen State Park, Delaware....
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Category: Birds
Canada geese (Branta canadensis), photographed in Mt. Kisco, New York....
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Category: Dinosaurs
A reconstruction of a dead Edmontosaurus on display at the Museum of Ancient Life at Thanksgiving Point, Utah....
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Category: Dinosaurs
A Pachycephalosaurus, photographed at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences....
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