How did life evolve in that famous galaxy far, far away? The difficulty of answering that question shows the value of paleontology closer to home.
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A remarkable recent find of over 200 preserved pterosaur eggs leads Adrian to muse about the relationship between historical reconstruction, physical remains, and evolutionary convergences.
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Is Disney's Fantasia just a beautiful peice of cinema? Not so, says Charles Pence: Fantastia should be thought of as an important moment in the history of the biological sciences!
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Nominally, this is a review of Chapman & Wylie's Evidential Reasoning in Archaeology. Nominally.
Read MoreThe Chidi-Ross Spectrum: Role Models in Philosophy and Paleontology
What can a paleontologist learn by imitating a fictional philosopher? Maybe more than you'd think!
Read MoreRemeasuring Pisanosaurus
The most important dinosaur no one has ever heard of might not really be a dinosaur
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