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Showing posts with label dinosaurs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dinosaurs. Show all posts
Monday, 15 March 2021

Distorted Darwin: common misconceptions about evolution and natural selection

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A few months' ago, I discussed how disagreements with religious texts can lead the devout to disagree with key scientific theories; pre...
Friday, 11 January 2019

Hot, cold or in between: thermoregulation and public misunderstanding of science

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I recently spotted an intriguing paleontology article concerning the 180 million year old fossil remains of an ichthyosaur, a marine reptile...
Monday, 27 August 2018

Hammer and chisel: the top ten reasons why fossil hunting is so important

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At a time when the constantly evolving world of consumer digital technology seems to echo the mega-budget, cutting-edge experiments of the ...
Sunday, 15 January 2017

Devoted to dinosaurs: Joan Wiffen and the role of the amateur scientist

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I was recently at a second hand book stall, browsing a first edition of Graeme Steven's Prehistoric New Zealand . The market stall owner...
Tuesday, 26 January 2016

Spreading the word: 10 reasons why science communication is so important

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Although there have been science-promoting societies since the Renaissance, most of the dissemination of scientific ideas was played out at ...
Monday, 28 September 2015

Resurrecting megafauna: the various problems of de-extinction

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The record-breaking success of Jurassic World proves that if there's anything a lot of people want to see in the animal kingdom it is ...
Thursday, 26 March 2015

A roaring success? The Walking with Dinosaurs Arena Spectacular

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Surely these days everyone loves dinosaurs? After all, the original Jurassic Park movie made over a billion US dollars worldwide, enough to...
Thursday, 29 January 2015

Unprofessional endeavours: amateur paleontology in New Zealand

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There is currently an exhibition touring around New Zealand called Dinosaur Footprints: A Story of Discovery , which as its name suggests co...
Tuesday, 1 April 2014

Dino wars: is that dinosaur Kiwi or Aussie?

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It's a cheap piece of rhetoric to invoke the long-running if affectionate New Zealand-Australian rivalry, but what with the current camp...
Wednesday, 25 August 2010

Carving niches: are there still roles for amateur scientists?

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Until the mid-nineteenth century the majority of scientists seem to have been unsalaried, so the barrier between paid practitioners and the ...
Thursday, 1 April 2010

Blown away: some weird and wonderful animal defence mechanisms

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At a time when environmentalists are calling for farmers to swap cattle for non-ruminant species such as kangaroos in an effort to stem bovi...
Monday, 15 February 2010

Palaeontological pastimes: fossicking for all the family

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What do the Isle of Wight, the Dorset coast and a park in south-east London have in common? Answer: they are all popular stomping grounds fo...