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Tracks and Traces 02.20.11February 20, 2011 – Rats. Wearing pants. For SCIENCE. Anthropologists trace human origins back to one large goat. Wait a minute… (via The Onion) What does “loving life” really mean? Scott Sampson considers biophilia At Smithsonian, my article “Everything You Wanted to Know About Dinosaur Sex” The Cornell Daily Sun profiles paleontologist Bruce MacFadden and his excellent work on […]
Book Review: The Immortal Life of Henrietta LacksFebruary 16, 2010 – Contingency has been on my mind quite often these days. What would life look like today if the ancestors of the first land-dwelling vertebrates had two legs instead of four? How would non-avian dinosaurs continue to have evolved if they had not been wiped out 65 million years ago? What if, like many other prehistoric […]
A wee little elephantimorph from EritreaJuly 06, 2009 – A restoration of Eritreum compared to the larger Gomphotherium. From Shoshani et al. (2009). Before I loved dinosaurs, I loved elephants. I would run around the backyard with my little pith helmet on, firing my “elephant mover” to herd the imaginary pachyderms. (At the time I did not understand what guns did. When they went […]
Ancient SwimmersMarch 01, 2011 – The coelacanth was thought to have gone extinct with the dinosaurs. Rediscovered in 1938, it is chronicled here in a rare photographic account.
