The silence must have been deafening. As - hopefully - everybody knows, during 2007 Spencer Lucas and colleagues at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science (NMMNHS) were charged with intellectual theft, of pre-empting the writings of...
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Posted on June 2, 2008 4:44 AM • 16 Comments •
While googling for astrapothere images recently I came across the image used here: wow! This is a life-sized reconstruction of the gigantic Miocene alligatoroid Purussaurus, first named in 1892 for P. brasiliensis from the Upper Miocene Solimões Formation of...
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Posted on February 6, 2008 6:18 AM • 27 Comments •
So, what exactly do scientists do when they feel that colleagues have behaved unethically? That's a good question and the answer is by no means clear...
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Posted on January 31, 2008 1:00 AM • 30 Comments •