The toolmaker of mass destruction
I just happened across this cartoon early this morning, and it got me thinking. When I start thinking, you know I have to write down what I’ve been able to distill, so I have produced this post, It...
View ArticleA hyena is not a dog with a pseudo-penis
A spotted hyena pseudo-penis. Source for image. I woke up this morning to check the comments on the blog. I normally do not close comments for older posts, and I often forget about the posts I wrote...
View ArticleA burning question for which there is (as of yet) no answer
Does Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) believe in evolution? Source. Senator Johnson has not yet issued an official response. I bet he doesn’t because we learned from a “great Republican scientist” named...
View ArticleWhy is the Sumatran rhino so hairy?
A few days ago, I had a discussion on Facebook with someone about Sumatran rhinoceroses and why they were still hairy. I had posted one of Frans de Waal’s photos of a Sumatra rhino calf, and as calves...
View ArticleThe Velvet Claw on Youtube
If you probably couldn’t tell from reading this blog, carnivoran evolution and natural history is one of my passions. Where did all of this get started? I’d say sometime in the mid-90s. I used to...
View ArticleIt began with jackals
Canis cedazoensis was an early species of the wolf-coyote-jackal tribe. It lived what is now the American Southwest and Northern Mexico until 300,000 years ago. It probably scavenged kills of bigger...
View ArticleCoyotes and wolves and pitfalls of paleontology
It cannot be overstated how much the discovery that coyotes are not as distantly related to wolves as we believed ultimately questions our entire understanding of the evolution of the Canis species....
View ArticleSome thoughts on Creationism and the final days of fundamentalism
This morning, I decided to subject myself to some creationist programming on one of the religious channels that every American gets with a basic TV package. I don’t know why I do this, but I consider...
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