A blog by paleoartist Clara Takahashi
You probably know the drill by now. Here are some photos of some new birds I’ve taken since last time. I think I’m getting relatively close to having seen every common bird in my area–soon I’ll have to work a...
This is a total break from my usual paleontology content, but bear with me, because I think this topic is really interesting, fun, and useful.
Take a moment and think of the myriad lifestyles different birds live. Some are flightless, swift-running herbivores; some are terrifying aerial hunters; some dive for fish; some nab insects on the wing; et cetera et cetera. Many of these niches...
The world we inhabit and interact with on a daily basis, the world of megafauna, is far from the only world there is. At other size scales, there are layers upon layers of other worlds that we don’t notice, that...
This is a project I’ve been thinking about for a long time. There are lots of crows near where I live, and they are frighteningly smart and self-aware. They also are known to remember and hold opinions about individual humans,...