It’s probably impossible to write about the history of fossil hominin discoveries in Africa and not discuss, or at least mention, the Leakeys…
Footless Urban Pigeons Suffer Untold Trials and Tribulations
Spawnwatch 2026
After 20 Years, the Tetrapod Zoology Highlights
Two Full Decades of Tetrapod Zoology
The Continuing Debate on Dinosaur Cognition
British Palaeontologist Richard Forrest, a Brief Obituary
Ancient Sea Reptiles Goes to Third Edition!
Diprotodontians Forever: the Vombatiform Radiation, Part I
If you’re a regular reader here you might recall me making occasional lamentations about the near-absence of marsupial-themed content here. The recent Thylacoleo article was an unusual blip. But…
Thylacoleo, the Incredible Marsupial Lion
The Life Appearance of Glyptodonts
A Woolly Mammoth Primer
The Amazing Giant Black Fossa
DinoCon 2025 Has Left the Building
Sloth World, 2025 (Part 1)
Mesozoic Art II, Palaeoart Portfolio for the 2020s
In Quest of Hybrid (Non-Bird) Dinosaurs
The Crowing Crested Cobra Once More
Crocodiles Attack Elephants Then, Now, and Still
Regular readers here will be familiar with my lamentations about the old, archived material from ver 2 (ScienceBlogs) and ver 3 (Scientific American). It’s been lost, destroyed, vandalized, paywalled, or some combination of those things. Today, something happened which has inspired me to rescue one of those articles from ver 3, specifically from 2013 (here’s the original). What inspired it, huh? Well, THIS DID…
