One of the unique properties of mammals is their ability to produce milk, that nourishing emulsion of tiny globules of fat in water. Heck, I...

Hot on the heels of Haplocheirus , another new alvarezsaur has been announced: Xixianykus zhangyi . As you might guess by the name, it's...

In September of last year, I featured a couple examples of Nicolás Gajardo Henríquez's dinosaur origami . Flickr user origamiPete also ...

I finally got around to making LITC a page on the popular website Facebook. Well, finishing it. I started making it a long time ago, then st...

Here's a two-page spread from a 1979 Scholastic book called the First Picture Encyclopedia . It's a pretty sweet piece, complete wit...

Plastic dinosaurs are a perennial inspiration for photographers, it seems. There's something comforting and nostalgic about them, and a...

The other major stop of our weekend trip to St. Louis was the utterly wickedly wondrous and splendid City Museum . I won't get into the ...

As I mentioned yesterday, the little lady and I took a road trip to St. Louis this weekend. Whenever we hit the road, we party like we mean...

SWAMPED. That's how I'm feeling right now. The first spring break I've had in several years, and I wish it had never happened - ...

I recently picked up a used copy of Carl Sagan's The Dragons of Eden , and the cover folded out to reveal this impressive painting by Do...