The tales told by trees... |
I love cladistics. The archosaur phylogeny was fun, and it taught us how to make a bird. However, it didn't quite capture the fiercely carnivorous facet of my personality, now did it? Thus, I've decid...
Posted by Space Dinosaur on Wed, 26 Dec 2007 02:57:00 PST |
More monkey business (and how to build a bird) |
So now that you've got the dirt on speciation, why not get really filthy with some macroevolutionary patterns we would expect to see given our crazy-cool understanding of the processes involved in spe...
Posted by Space Dinosaur on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:35:00 PST |
Why do monkeys still exist... |
...if humans evolved from monkeys? Most people who have studied evolutionary biology in depth take for granted that everyone knows why humans and monkeys, or birds and dinosaurs, or amphibians a...
Posted by Space Dinosaur on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 03:38:00 PST |
Land Fish |
I recently happened upon an interesting article on some research currently underway on Rivulus marmoratus. R. marmoratus is a fascinating animal in many respects. The species includes self...
Posted by Space Dinosaur on Sat, 17 Nov 2007 05:21:00 PST |
The wonderful world of holothurians |
I dig sea cucumbers in a big way. Sea cucumbers are echinoderms belonging to the class Holothuroidea and are related to echinoids (Echinoidea), starfish (Asteroidea), brittle stars (Ophiuroidea...
Posted by Space Dinosaur on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 09:59:00 PST |
Those magnetic eyes... |
A recent paper in PLoS ONE shows that migratory birds may not only sense the Earth's magnetic field, but they may in fact actually see it (a summary of this paper is available via [email protected]). N...
Posted by Space Dinosaur on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 02:54:00 PST |
Fish in Space |
Believe it or not, there are fish in orbit around the Earth. In fact I ran into them on my way down here the other day. Some crazy science types sent them up there in order to study the de...
Posted by Space Dinosaur on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 01:39:00 PST |
1 of every 4 Americans... |
...didn't read a single book over the last year. That explains a lot. If reading scares and confuses you, perhaps this will help. For the not so literate out there who are starting t...
Posted by Space Dinosaur on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:02:00 PST |
Feel like going for a swim? |
If you live anywhere along the coast of Lake Michigan, you might be better off splashing about in your bathtub. There are a lot of reasons to hate BP, but their latest display of utter disregard...
Posted by Space Dinosaur on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:17:00 PST |
Hey fatty... |
...it seems that your friends can catch your fatness. The good new is that when one of you greasy, overweight monkeys loses weight, your acquaintances tend to lose weight too. So hop to it...
Posted by Space Dinosaur on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 02:28:00 PST |
