Got to the Intelligent Design thread on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch blog a little late in the game. The thread died after several comments...

The above is a picture of a 20,000,000 year old spider trapped in amber. Sciectists recently created an interesting method for studying the ...

In a study to be published in the November issue of PLOS Biology scientist announce they have discovered gorillas using tools. It has been ...

If you have read any of Darwin's works you will recognize the Quagga. It is related to zebra. Darwin mentioned it in several of his work...

Originally in this post I was going to mention that the afarensis family was moving about five miles west in about a week and that I was bus...

I don't know how I missed this but the St. Louis Post-Dispatch blog has a thread on Intelligent Design. Some are against teaching it in...

will be Friday. It is hosted by Tony at milkriverblog (whom I need to add to my blog roll - along with several others). Watch for it!

Below is a picture of a type of polychaeta belonging to the genus Osedax. They were recently discovered feasting on the skeleton of a juven...

The above is a picture of the 27,000 year old infant skeletons discovered in Austria. New Scientisist has a story on them as well: The rema...

Readers may remember the footprints found in Mexico that have been dated to about 40,000 years BP. Geotimes has an interesting story on the...

News 24 is reporting that two 27,000 year old skeletons - believed to be from twins - have been found in Austria: The 27 000 year old skel...

You are a Social Liberal (71% permissive) and an... Economic Liberal (11% permissive) You are best described as a: Socialist...

Via An Ethereal Girl's Adventures in Cyberland You Are A: Turtle ! These reptiles, famous for their hard outer shells, spent their days ...

Henry's Webiocosm has a cool idea (which I am shamelessly pilfering)! Learn something new about a random organism . I learned about: Ca...

Truely, the Flying Spaghetti Monster works in mysterious ways: Nissin Food Products announced Monday it will collaborate with Japan's Sp...

Regular readers of this blog know that I that I get a lot of science news from Science Daily and frequently turn that news into a post. Thi...

Via Profgrrrrl and Pharyngula Rules: 1. Go into your archive. 2. Find your 23rd post (or closest to). Mine's from 2/02/05, a post title...

At least according to Pharyngula , Chris Clarke and Feministe anyway. So all you folks who lurk at my blog say Hi, tell me what you think ...

The above is a human tooth. If you look closely you can see faint grooves running horizontally across it's surface. These grooves are ca...

A recent article published in BMC Ecology casts an interesting light on tiger salamander evolution : Researchers analysed a late-Holocene fo...