The Doctor Responds!
Thank you so much to Doctor Kershenbaum for his helpful reply! For my part I certainly agree that competition would have a major impact on the morphology of alien life […]
Bilateral Supremacy
As I mentioned in the last post, in his new book, The Zoologist’s Guide To The Galaxy, Arik Kershenbaum makes a well -organized and stepwise case for the hypothesis that, […]
Alien Life: Convergence vs. Phylogenetic Signal
I am reading a great new book by Dr. Arik Kershenbaum, a Zoologist at Cambridge University. His career is in top-quality scientific investigation of animal communication. But this new book […]
The Bennettite Wielandiella
I recently did a little more work on bennettites. This is my own version of Wielandiella angustifolia, based on the magnificent recent papers by Christian Pott and his co-authors.
Flattering!
The good people at Scienceline have put up a very flattering profile on me. https://scienceline.org/2019/11/building-the-most-accurate-dinosaur/
Dinosaur Art II: Titan Books
Jehol Hillside – work in progress
forest just upland from a lakeshore, Yixian Formation, 123 million years ago. In the foreground trunks of Pityocladus and Elatocladus are fallen. Cladophlebis is the upright stem and foliage […]
Tyrannosaurus rex
100 years ago this month the American Museum of Natural History placed the Tyrannosaurus rex fossil, AMNH 5027, on public display. This week an exquisite new specimen of T. rex has […]
Bennettites – The Latest
The life appearance of bennettites has been extremely hard to reconstruct. Just a handful of fossils of bennettite stems are known to science. Even fewer have attached leaves or cones, […]
New Pencil Drawings
A forest just upland from a lakeshore, Yixian Formation, 123 million years ago. In the foreground trunks of Pityocladus and Elatocladus are fallen. Cladophlebis is the upright stem and foliage in […]
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