A blog by paleoartist Clara Takahashi
Here you will find facts about obscure dinosaurs, obscure facts about well-known dinosaurs, and other material covering such topics as evolution, taxonomy, geology, and pop culture!
The other thing besides birding that I always make sure to do when I travel is to hit up the local natural history museum. In Paris, that’s the Galerie de Paléontologie et d’Anatomie Comparée located on the eastern end of...
I recently went to France for the first time. You know the drill–here are the birds!
As a final installment in my comprehensive prehistoric world maps, I present the world of the end-Permian, right before the most terrible extinction the world has ever seen. The configuration of continents during the Permian period was much the same...
The last time I discussed pregnancy on the blog, I focused almost entirely on various strange phenomena that occur in non-human animals who give live birth. This time, I’m focusing on the way one phenomenon occurs in humans: “pregnancy brain”....
I’d been avoiding reading Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens for many years, ever since it appeared on the shelves of every bookstore. I’d read on the internet that it had an agenda, that it romanticized the hunter-gatherer lifestyle and was full...
