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,...

Paleo Biome Profile #1: The Yixian Formation

This post will be the first in a series of biome profiles, intended to depict an ancient time and place as a whole, comprehensive, living ecosystem. There are many impressive fossil localities that preserve tons of information about all levels...

The Croc Family: An Overview

I said my Aquatic Reptiles post would be the last Mesozoic reptile family overview, but of course no trilogy is complete without a trilogy creep! Crocodylians and their relatives used to be so much more diverse and prolific than they...