Last week, I spent time at the Bahamas Natural History Symposium in Nassau, Bahamas. Seeing policy makers, ecologists, educators, geologists, and anthropologists…
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Zoology Paleontology in a Sink Hole: Spring Break EditionRead more
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Climate Change The asteroid started the fire (or did it?)Read more
In December, I listened to the Radiolab “Apocolyptical” show which was all about the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary event. Famously, in 1980, Walter Alvarez…
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post Rodents of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Quaternary ExtinctionRead more
The Caribbean is typically thought of as a lovely spring break destination. If you are an animal lover, the area is great…
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Dinosaurs Ichthyosaur is the New BlackRead more
Just yesterday, a group of 2nd graders asked me what color dinosaurs were. I was pretty excited to tell them we actually…
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Zoology Prehistoric Platypus: Revenge of the MonotremesRead more
(I tried to make the title of the post sound like a SyFy movie title, let me know how I did) Obdurodon…
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Dinosaurs Dinosaurs Come Through In The ClutchRead more
In the last few months, a lot has been going around about a pretty interesting topic—dino sex. Besides the mechanics of dinosaur…
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Climate Change Climate Change and Paleontology: Back to the FutureRead more
This week and next at PLOS Blogs, we are doing a focus on climate change. This is leading up to a great…
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Zoology What’s My Age Again?Read more
Earlier this month, an almost 40 pound rockfish was caught in Alaska that was allegedly 200 years old. The angler that caught…
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Dinosaurs How to Find a FossilRead more
Since the summer is the field season for many of us, I thought I would write a little bit about the first…
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post All Creatures Great and Small: Small Mammals and Conservation PaleobiologyRead more
Small mammals, at times, don’t seem very interesting or informative (like when there is a rat in your apartment and you just…
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post Fossil Egg-cellenceRead more
I’m usually thinking about eggs. Not chocolate eggs (well, maybe this time of year), but fossil eggs. I am really interested in…
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post Paleoecology and Poop, a Perfect PairRead more
It’s time to stop feeling sheepish and discuss poop. That’s right. You may not know this, but both modern and fossil poop…