From AZ Central => Fossils from northeastern Colombia reveal the biggest snake ever discovered: a behemoth that stretched 42 to 45 feet long, reaching more than 2,500 pounds. Oh what I wouldn’t give for a way to go back in time and see all the colossal and bizarre life that has existed on this planet! … Read more
The question I ask is… do I trust a story in The Sun? The official confirmation came yesterday — proving thousands of members of the public have been right for years. Forestry workers conducting deer surveys have TWICE got within 50 yards of the fearsome creatures in the wild, it was revealed. These so-called “fearsome … Read more
OK, we’re all feeling the pinch with gas prices, but I really hate it when people start taking advantage of others when they’re vulnerable. That’s bad enough, but when the local news helps them, I’m appalled. Today, the local ABC affiliate, channel 15 published this story. It’s about a company that sells magnets (yes, magnets) … Read more
Ben Stein’s epic motion picture, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed is set to debut this weekend. It’s a sweeping tale of lies, corruption, deception, censorship, bad science, dummy corporations, mendacity and the incredible lengths that some people will go to hide the truth from the public, and most importantly, our children. Don’t waste your money to … Read more
If anybody would like to get me a present… might I suggest this? PARIS (Reuters) – The skeleton of a Triceratops dinosaur that roamed the earth some 65 million years ago goes under the hammer in Paris on Wednesday as part of a collection of prehistoric bones and fossils, auctioneers Christie’s said. [From Triceratops skeleton … Read more
The week before last was Michelle’s spring break, so I took a day off to take her down to the Mesa Southwest Museum (AKA Arizona Museum of Natural History) to see the traveling “Feathered Dinosaurs” exhibit. There is a province in Northeastern China called Liaoning, where, 120-odd million years ago a lake and a volcano … Read more
From Reuters… Officials found the fossil of a giant dinosaur jawbone while investigating a suspicious package on a bus in the mountains of Peru on Tuesday. [From Dinosaur fossil found on bus in Peru | Science & Health | Reuters] There’s no good fossil-bearing formations in Phoenix, so I’ve never found one… I never thought … Read more
This is too priceless not to pass on. Because there’s a twist ending, I won’t summarize, suffice to say that a crackpot creationist movie is coming out soon, called “Expelled! No Intelligence Allowed.” It’s a creationist PR hatchet job piece and they engaged several prominent evolutionary biologists – under less than honest circumstances – to … Read more
I’m so disappointed! I was in Bookman’s used books yesterday and they had Michael Behe’s work classified in the science section. I can expect this sort of stuff from the big chain bookstores, but I thought Bookman’s was different.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before… as I was approaching college age as the 80’s were dawning on us, I had three areas of interest that I explored for my future life’s work. Each would set the course of my adult life in three very different ways and each would have been a … Read more