Open access publication has, for the most part, long since ceased to be controversial. Although it certainly isn’t without its minor issues…

“$%@# rain. It was sprinkling last night when I went to bed, and [it] was full-scale rain by 3 [a.m.] or so…

In December, I listened to the Radiolab “Apocolyptical” show which was all about the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary event. Famously, in 1980, Walter Alvarez…

Every living thing has a remarkable evolutionary history, stretching back through the eons. Sometimes it’s fun to think about common plants and…

Just yesterday, a group of 2nd graders asked me what color dinosaurs were. I was pretty excited to tell them we actually…

Open Access Week was somewhere between hectic and insanely hectic for me. I was part of a research team (including fellow PLoS…

After a long journey through the millennia, fossils inevitably arrive in the present as damaged goods. Bacteria, scavengers, erosion, wind, rain, and…

In the last few months, a lot has been going around about a pretty interesting topic—dino sex. Besides the mechanics of dinosaur…

Since the summer is the field season for many of us, I thought I would write a little bit about the first…

Sometimes your research shows up in the places where you least expect it. Seniors at Armour High School–my alma mater square in the…

With yesterday’s publication of the paper describing and naming the dinosaur Dahalokely, one stage of a loooong research journey has reached its end…

When we think of Madagascar, its unique wildlife immediately springs to mind. Around 95 percent of the terrestrial animals on this island…