Check out my article on the atmosphere and evolution, "The History of Air", over at Smithsonian.
The Raleigh News & Observer has a brief interview with me (conducted by DeLene Beeland) on paleontology, evolution, and my forthcoming book Written in Stone. (Check out the comments, too - I already have fundamentalists praying for me *headdesk*)
The next time you use a latrine in Peru, watch out for two-toed sloths
Cool new science blog centered around Yale museum specimens - The Life You (And I) Never Knew
Welcome another paleo blog to the blogohedron - March of the Fossil Penguins
Director Ridley Scott says that the forthcoming ALIEN prequel will center around the story of the "Space Jockey"
Very cool video - shockwaves propagating through the eruption cloud of Eyjafjallajökull!
The Fossil of the Week, from the Museum of the Earth
A great interview with nonfiction/geo writer John McPhee
A new species of Pliopithecus found in a rubbish dump in Spain
Tracks and Traces 4.26.10
Cool evolution, paleo, sci writing, and misc links from the past week.
