In which Max remembers the biggest American geological brouhaha of the nineteenth century
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Ode to Opabinia, or Why You Don't Hear as Much About Problematic Fossils as you Used to
In which Max examines the history of research on that Burgess oddball, Opabinia regalis, and asks why this problematic fossil is less problematic than it used to be
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Future-Proof Explosion?
In which Max considers the history of the expression “Cambrian explosion” and asks whether it’s here to stay
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Wild Thing
In which Max completes his essay on dangerous speculation in geohistory by analyzing the reception of the Triassic kraken, Nemesis, and vendobiont hypotheses
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Release the Kraken
In which Max releases the kraken on the Extinct blog. (It’s about “dangerous” speculation in geohistory)
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Ediacaran Enigma
In which Max considers the problems involved in interpreting the enigmatic fossils of the Ediacaran Period, as well as some influential attempts to interpret them
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