Pregnancy Is Super Weird

Classically, mammals are the animal group best-known for giving live birth. But did you know that live birth has evolved independently hundreds of times in everything from sharks, snakes, frogs, and fish to cockroaches and scorpions? In fact, while mammals...

How Accurate Can Paleoart Be?

I recently had someone ask me this question, and when I was writing my response to them, it became long enough to merit its own blog post. It’s a great question! Since most people who consume paleoart are not familiar...

The Appeal to Nature Fallacy

Everyone at some point has encountered an argument using an appeal to nature: in a grocery store label proclaiming a product is natural and therefore good for you, in a philosophical argument about where we draw our moral ideas from,...