Mesozoic Inktober 2019

For those of you who aren’t familiar with Inktober (and other month-long creativity challenges), it’s a social-media event where participants draw something related to the official prompt, in ink, each day during the month of October. This is the first...

The Pterosaur Family: An Overview

As a followup to my Dinosaur Family Overview post, here’s a similar pterosaur’s-eye view of the lineage of those awesome flying reptiles! This should be a significantly shorter post; since pterosaurs weren’t nearly as diverse as dinosaurs, there are fewer...

Dinosaur Portrayals In The Media

Dinosaurs and friends, being large and charismatic, have had their fair share of airtime over the years. However, it’s not uncommon for the artists who actually do the reconstructions to be unfamiliar with paleontology and to make errors, and even...

Mitochondrial Eve Is A Tautology

Mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell! ….just kidding, that’s not what this post is about. Mitochondria are organelles, tiny structures within each of an organism’s cells, that are responsible for creating ATP, a chemical that can be used as...