A blog by paleoartist Clara Takahashi
I recently stumbled upon a copy of The Dinosaur Heresies, by Robert Bakker, published in 1986, for $6 in as-is condition at the local used book store. I’d heard of Bakker and his book before–he’s a preeminent paleontologist and one...
To be honest, I was quite uninspired by this year’s Inktober prompts–crystal, suit, vessel, knot, and other vague, hard-to-relate-to-dinosaurs words–and have been busier lately than the last couple of years, so I wasn’t planning to do Inktober this year. But...
In the modern world, we currently have some pretty good flightless birds, such as the 150-kilogram ostrich (which only has two toes per foot–don’t let poorly researched cartoons convince you it has three), the fearsome casqued cassowary, the giant cormorant,...
The last time I discussed the mammal family tree, I ended the post in a bit of a hurry and glazed over the relationships between living mammal groups. Now it’s time to go a bit deeper. Cenozoic, ho!
Like a lot of people, I took AP Biology in high school, and memorized a bunch of stuff about the Krebs cycle and the electron transport chain and how mitochondria is…you know what it is. But I realized recently that...