Photo of the Day #953: Collared brown lemur baby
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
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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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What's eating you? - Bugs, bacteria, and zombies
Category: Anthropology
Zombies are notorious consumers of human flesh, but what's eating them?
Posted by Brian Switek at 11:08 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Deceitful Male Topi Raise False Alarms to Keep Females Nearby
Category: Behavior
When male topi raise false alarms, females stay close, but how can we tell if the males are really telling lies?
Posted by Brian Switek at 11:15 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Photo of the Day #950: Gorilla
Category: Mammals
A lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla), photographed at the Bronx Zoo....
Posted by Brian Switek at 7:41 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Extinction of the Hundsheim Rhino - Being a Generalist Isn't All It's Cracked Up to Be
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.
Posted by Brian Switek at 6:46 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Sea Otters, Hunters, and Steller's Sea Cows - Replaying a Recent Extinction
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
Ancient "Big Man" Confirms That Humans Stood Tall Early
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
Homo sapiens can bite hard, after all
Category: Anthropology
Humans have traditionally been thought to have weak bites compared to other apes, but a new study suggests something very different.
Posted by Brian Switek at 10:54 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Photo of the Day #945: Golden-mantled ground squirrel
Category: Mammals
A golden-mantled ground squirrel (Spermophilus lateralis), photographed in Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah....
Posted by Brian Switek at 8:05 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Small Fossil Mammals Reveal Wounds Left by the Last Great Extinction
Category: Ecology
About 12,000 years ago the world suffered one of the greatest mass extinctions of all time. A unique assemblage of small mammals from California may help to explain what happened.
Posted by Brian Switek at 6:02 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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