Fossils and Other Living Things
Ruminations on paleontology and life by an amateur at both
Sunday, February 22, 2026
The Contradiction of Robins
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In woods in mid-winter, living trees, shorn of leaves, join their dead companions in extending naked branches to the sky. What was hidden i...
Friday, January 23, 2026
Sea Urchin as Canvas
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The fossil pictured below is an echinoid (sea urchin) some 84 to 90 million years old from the middle of the Upper Cretaceous period. This ...
Monday, December 29, 2025
Nobel Laureate John Mather and Me - A Review of
The Very First Light
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Earlier this year, I attended a talk by physicist John Mather which had the wonderfully ambitious title of From the Big Bang to Quantum Ener...
Wednesday, November 26, 2025
House Finches and the Prescient Charles Aiken
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In a somewhat roundabout fashion, the three House Finches ( Haemorhous mexicanus ) shown below led me to Charles Edward Howard Aiken (1850-1...
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