A fascinating and academic deep-dive into how studies of extant organisms and trends in living animal groups could be used to infer colouration and patterning in extinct creatures (specifically here […]
A look into the life – and death – of one of the more infamous recent extinctions: the Carolina parakeet (which, turns out, is not a parakeet at all, but a small parrot). I hadn't realised how […]
A beautifully animated and incredibly well-scored short film about the K/T extinction, and the legacy it left. Incredibly, this turns out to be the final in a series of animated […]
I've been fascinated by the Quagga Project since I was a kid, back when they were (rumoured) to be keeping a small herd of the creatures at the University of Cape Town, visible on drives around the […]
I just fell down a rather wonderful rabbit hole. My tale begins with a book review, written by Ross Barnett, of Sabretooth (Mauricio Anton). Apart from instantly causing me to add the book […]
Yes, I am one of those irritating people that have decided to resurrect an audio format that, by all rights, should be long extinct. And, further yes, I'm also now going to complain about my […]
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