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In honor of Mother’s Day (USA) and in support of taking a mental health day, I’m skipping a blog post for this week. My mother’s in town and we’re having […]
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Any adventures about the more rural parts of the UK typically involve (for me, anyway) a lot of looking at the Rook Corvus frugilegus, a remarkable Old World corvid that occurs from the far western shores of the UK and France all the way east to Japan (it’s generally absent from the cold northern parts [...]
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A month ago a large portion of our lawn was a carpet of blue scilla. It took decades for the scilla to multiply so prolifically, and it's a wonderful and lovely harbinger of spring. What could be the problem? A month has passed and lawns need mowing. The blue lawn is now a verdant thicket of green scilla leaves, but they mow right? Sort of. The leaves of scilla contain a considerable amount of mucilage and moisture. The discharge from you mower is
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Hunters killed this very pregnant coyote bitch: As you know, I am far more interested in zoology than animal rights, and if pictures of human fetuses weren’t going to make me “pro-life,” then these coyote fetuses aren’t going to make me opposed to coyote hunting. In my high school biology class, there was a jar […]
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My younger brother and I were, at times, somewhat enthusiastic and not terribly
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Compiled by an ardent bibliophile, this week's report includes Penguins: Natural History and Conservation; A Love Affair with Birds: The Life of Thomas Sadler Roberts; The Lost World of Fossil Lake: Snapshots from Deep Time; and Rhinoceros Giants: The Paleobiology of Indricotheres; all of which were recently published in North America and the UKBooks to the ceiling, Books to the sky,My pile of books is a mile high.How I love them! How I need them!I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
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The usual. I haven’t been able to blog much because of various other responsibilities, but I definitely do feel pent up posting energy. So when I come back I assume that I’ll have a lot of stuff to say. Meanwhile I’m chortling a bit about this bizarre attack on my friend Steve Hsu. Here’s the [...]
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I have a rant to do, and an anatomy vignette or two, but before I do, here is a puzzleroo: It’s a reconstructed CT scan. I’ve digitally cut off the head to be tricksy. Come on man, I ain’t just whistlin’ Dixie! What is this beastie? Not hard in the leasty. (your answer needs neither […]
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At first specimen this looks like a series of holes drilled into a small, smooth substrate (like Trypanites), but then you notice that the substrate has grown up around the holes, and on the far left you can make out two cones. These are cornulitid tubes that lived on and then inside a living stromatoporoid [...]
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If you're interested in the history of archaeology, you are going to really love "Trowelblazers", a Tumblr site with short biographies of female trailblazers of archaeology.
Like most good Tumblr accounts, this one has some great pictures. The post on Maeve Leakey has a classic photo from the Turkana Basin Institute, and the Gertrude Bell post is full of information and links.
Tags: history of archaeology
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The grass isn’t that high. It’s just that the deer is standing on the other side of a little rise. I took this photo this evening. I had a much clearer shot at one earlier on, then this one’s head popped up. The deer are still losing their gray winter coats. Fawns are coming soon.
