Crocodiles Attack Elephants Then, Now, and Still

Regular readers here will be familiar with my lamentations about the old, archived material from ver 2 (ScienceBlogs) and ver 3 (Scientific American). It’s been lost, destroyed, vandalized, paywalled, or some combination of those things. Today, something happened which has inspired me to rescue one of those articles from ver 3, specifically from 2013 (here’s the original). What inspired it, huh? Well, THIS DID…

Whales and Dolphins Around the Coasts of Europe, 2025

Once again, I’m back from time spent in the North Atlantic looking at wild cetaceans, specifically on a Bay of Biscay trip (a journey made between Plymouth in England and Santander in Spain) organised by the wildlife charity ORCA

Speculative Zoology Grand and Photoreal: Boulay and Steyer's Demain, les Animaux du Futur

Having recently republished an old, classic article on Speculative Zoology – that based around a 2014 interview with After Man creator Dougal Dixon – it seemed appropriate to republish another Tet Zoo classic…

Curtis, Swisher and Lewin’s Java Man of 2000: Hominin-Themed Books, Part 1

If you were following the hominin-themed discoveries of that long-ago era known as the 1990s, you may well remember the hot news, published in Science in 1994 and 1996, on Homo erectus