Taking Microkhan Jr. to the dinosaur museum today. I think he’s finally old enough to appreciate the true grandeur of a sauropod.
Entries Tagged as 'dinosaurs'
The Fine Art of Terrible Lizards
December 28th, 2010 · 4 Comments
On Christmas Night, the ingestion of too much fine red wine led the Grand Empress and I to spend a pleasant few minutes researching Thrinaxodon, one of the many Therapsids to be found in mankind’s evolutionary tree. We were intrigued to find great disagreement on what this critter looked like; due to a paucity of […]
The Ride Og Wishes He Had
February 19th, 2010 · 2 Comments
We realize we should stop being surprised by the scientific illiteracy of our countrymen, but we just couldn’t let this loopy tidbit pass without notice: Did humans live at the same time as the dinosaurs? Three in ten Texas voters agree with that statement; 41 percent disagree, and 30 percent don’t know. We have a […]
Tags:Creation Museum·creationism·dinosaurs·evolution·Kansas·pseudoscience
The Mammoths’ Last Stand
July 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off on The Mammoths’ Last Stand
Yesterday’s news that a comet helped kill off the Ice Age’s most glorious creatures reminded us of this groundbreaking 1995 paper from the journal Radiocarbon. While most of the world’s mammoths disappeared long before mankind figured out the rudiments of civilization, a small pack of the elephant-like beasts survived until 2000 B.C. or later. Their […]
Tags:dinosaurs·Ice Age·mammals·mammoths·paleontology·Russia·Wrangel Island
