A blog by paleoartist Clara Takahashi
After a year of being married, we finally made it on a honeymoon! We went to O’ahu, the main inhabited island in the Hawai’ian archipelago. As always when visiting a new place, there was a completely different avifauna than I’d...
This has almost nothing to do with paleontology, but glass is a fascinating material that I’ve been thinking about recently. To pay lip service to dinosaurs, here is a video of a dinosaur who loves glass:
Becoming a fossil is a long and difficult journey. The organism has to die and be buried before scavengers and decomposers get at its body, it needs to avoid being crushed or melted through tectonic or volcanic activity, and then...
The idea behind this post came from a game of Trivial Pursuit, in which I was asked (paraphrased), “Which central Asian lake has shrunk by 90% over the past sixty years?” I didn’t know any Asian lakes other than the...
I’m visiting in-laws in Florida for the holidays, and unlike last time I was here, which was migration season, it’s now the dry season, which brings a host of different birds. The family lives very close to a nature preserve,...