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Brian Switek is a freelance science writer and author of the critically acclaimed books Written in Stone (2010) and My Beloved Brontosaurus (2013). He has published in Slate, Nature, the Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian, Scientific American, and more. Laelaps is his writing laboratory, dedicated to sifting through today's natural history and remnants of the deep past for tales of evolution, extinction, and survival.
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Smilodon is the most famous of North America’s long-lost sabercats. But the burly carnivore wasn’t the only long-fanged …
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In paleontology, size matters. The lifestyles of the large and charismatic often gain far more attention those of …
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Truly, as Weird Al Yankovic once sang, “Jurassic Park is frightening in the dark.” Stumbling around after nightfall …
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Dinosaurs have changed quite a bit since I was a kid. Tails have been lifted, spines adjusted, skulls …
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A few days ago, my friend Michael Sims came to me with a paleontological quandary. The question centered …
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