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2014, an amazing year for pterosaurs

mercredi 24 septembre 2014 — Evolution, Archaeology & Paleontology, Dinosaurs, Evolutionary Biology

I'm still not sure whether I blog about Mesozoic archosaurs - specifically dinosaurs and pterosaurs - too often, or too infrequently. As I always say, the problem as I see it is that dinosaurs and... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Judge Restores Federal Protections to Wolves in Wyoming

mercredi 24 septembre 2014 — Society & Policy, Energy & Sustainability, Environment, Ecology, Evolution

The victory for wildlife conservationists is sure to draw criticism from ranchers and hunters who see wolves as a threat to livestock and big-game animals -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Ig Nobel Prizes Make You Laugh, Then Think

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—What happens in the brains of people who see Jesus in a piece of toast? What are the physics of slipping on a banana peel? -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Dino Devastator Also Ravaged Veggies @sciam podcast by @cintagliata

vendredi 19 septembre 2014 — More Science, Biology, Evolution, Archaeology & Paleontology, Dinosaurs, Evolutionary Biology, Space

After the Chicxulub meteorite, more than half the plant species in temperate North America perished along with the dinosaurs, and the composition of post-impact vegetation changed markedly.... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Dino Devastator Also Ravaged Veggies

vendredi 19 septembre 2014 — More Science, Biology, Evolution, Archaeology & Paleontology, Dinosaurs, Evolutionary Biology, Space

Scientific American

Speedy Lizard Outraces Global Warming

jeudi 18 septembre 2014 — More Science, Energy & Sustainability, Climate, Environment, Ecology, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology

A Bahamanian lizard has shown the ability to adapt to higher temperatures -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

New Steps Shown toward Creation of Life by Electric Charge

jeudi 18 septembre 2014 — More Science, Chemistry, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology

Simulating a famous experiment to produce life's building blocks by jolting molecules with electricity, scientists may have found a strange new intermediate state -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Loxton and Prothero's Abominable Science! Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids; the Tet Zoo review

jeudi 18 septembre 2014 — More Science, Biology, History of Science, Evolution, Archaeology & Paleontology, Dinosaurs, Evolutionary Biology

I'm an unashamed fan of cryptozoology - this being (for the two of you that don't know) the field of study that revolves around those creatures thought to exist by some, but which remain unrecognised... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Chinese Sturgeon Give Up, Stop Breeding in Polluted Yangtze River

mercredi 17 septembre 2014 — More Science, Biology, Society & Policy, Energy & Sustainability, Environment, Ecology, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, Technology, Energy Technology

When an endangered species stops breeding, you know its days are probably numbered. In China the countdown has apparently begun for the critically endangered Chinese sturgeon (Acipenser sinensis). -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

New Report on Chimp Violence Fails to Support Deep-Roots Theory of War

mercredi 17 septembre 2014 — More Science, Biology, Everyday Science, History of Science, Society & Policy, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, Health, Mind & Brain, Neuroscience, Psychology, Thought & Cognition

On this blog, in my book The End of War and elsewhere (see Further Reading and Viewing), I have knocked the deep roots theory of war, which holds that war stems from an instinct deeply embedded in... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American