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Anomalocaris makes a terrifying return, as Walcott fearlessly puts his life on the line in the name of science!

For once in my life, I don’t know what to say, so I’ll just let the video speak for itself. Prepare to see reality shatter before your unblinking eyes…

Seriously, when I watched this for the first time, I was downright confused. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything quite like it. I think [...]

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Apparently my last post about archaeopteryx stimulated some fresh scholarship!  Researchers used an extremely powerful X-ray machine to examine the Thermopolis archaeopteryx specimen.  They were hoping to find traces left behind by the decomposition of the specimen’s soft tissue.  Hopefully this will allow them to learn more about archaeopteryx’s soft tissue.
This is yet [...]

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I’ve been thinking about taxonomy1. This partly comes from reading Carl Zimmer’s book Microcosm, which spends some time talking about the transfer of genetic material between different species and organisms, and what this does to the classical conception of the firmly defined “species.”  I’ve also been thinking about subspecies and intraspecies diversity, thanks [...]

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Every once in a while I go on Conservapedia looking for something completely ridiculous to write about. For example, I took issue with them for hinting that the current Canadian flag was adopted to appease commies and separatists.
Today I want to have some fun with their article about Archaeopteryx.  The article is [...]

Carl Zimmer, the extremely well regarded (by me) science writer, and Phil Plait, the author of the popular astronomy blog Bad Astronomy have a conversation up at bloggingheads.tv.
This video is pretty long at 57 minutes, which is why I posted it on the weekend. My favourite part? The Buzz Aldrin punching a moon-landing [...]

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A new DNA study of flowers from the University of Florida suggests tree ancestors evolved some 90 million years ago, in a very rapid diversification of flowering plants. This evolution allowed modern forests to develop, creating an environment in which all sorts of other cool things, mammals included, could evolve.
How long did [...]

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This post has nothing to do with the science of Evolution, which has remained (since I stated this last) solid.  What I want to write about the selling of Evolution to the public.
Anyone with any experience or interest in either politics or marketing (and the two are frighteningly similar) knows that people don’t [...]

I’ve been sneakily adding new features to my blog for the last couple of months.  Some of you have all ready noticed a lot of things, but just in case some people haven’t, I thought I’d devote a post to them.
1. Facebook
I set up a Facebook group for eTrilobite.com a while ago (maybe a couple [...]

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