I've been reading so much about mythology & religion as it relates to natural history lately that I've decided to revamp on old post of mine on that very subject. (It was already monstrous to begin with, but given what I intend to add it may get out of control.) I hope to have it up sometime this weekend, but for now here's an old movie trailer that will give you some clues as to what I'll be talking about;
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It's been quiet around here lately, I realize. As you can tell from the last few posts, life has been busy and angsty and not a lot of fun lately. But a very large burden has been lifted (which I may blog about at some point, once I figure out how to do so without compromising my pseudonymity),…
The series of interviews with some of the participants of the 2008 Science Blogging Conference was quite popular, so I decided to do the same thing again this year, posting interviews with some of the people who attended ScienceOnline'09 back in January.
Today, I asked Dr. SkySkull of the Skulls…
"You lost your way
I tried to find it for you
A brighter day to clear your name
The thing is where you are and
Where you're going is the same" -Storyhill
Those of you who've been listening to the songs I post each weekend may remember this week's band, Storyhill. (They have a new album out, BTW.)…
Laelaps was a dog in Greek mythology that always caught its prey and was turned into stone (by Zeus himself!) while hunting the Teumessian fox that could never be caught. Lealaps is also a defunct name for a carnivorous dinosaur. Laelaps is also a mite that parasitizes rats. And Laelaps is the…
Um, the bible predicted the behemoth? No. Behemoths were in Africa since before mankind emerged. We know it today as the hippopotamus, known to the Egyptians as 'water-ox'.
Lemme guess... Umm, sauropod, or some sort of plesiosaur, perhaps?
According to PQQAm here: http://forums.abcnews.go.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?webtag=abccomments&nav=to… it is an apatosaurus. It's clearly described in the book of Job, with its penis swaying like a cypress tree and all. Don't you scienceguys know anything?