Rats. Wearing pants. For SCIENCE.
Anthropologists trace human origins back to one large goat. Wait a minute… (via The Onion)
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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 fossil horses
Training a giraffe is a tall order
ScienceOnline 2012 will find a new home at NC State University
Anthropology goes Don Draper (and that’s a good thing)
Deborah Blum defends science blogs
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What happened when NESCent took Darwin on the road
Love it – A life-size giant squid, knitted out of plastic bags
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Top image from Edward Hitchcock’s Ichnology of New England.
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