Fake spiders and paleontological forgery
A paper by paleontologist Paul Selden in Paleoentomology describes an interesting case of paleontological forgery: “The supposed giant spider Mongolarachne c...
A paper by paleontologist Paul Selden in Paleoentomology describes an interesting case of paleontological forgery: “The supposed giant spider Mongolarachne c...
Here’s a nice article about two archaeologists, Gayle Fritz and David Freidel, and their efforts to better educate the public and their students about critic...
I’ve had this Buzzfeed article sitting on my stack for two months: “The Hunter, The Hoaxer, And The Battle Over Bigfoot”. For people interested in biological...
I was doing some research involving Aleš Hrdlička, and ran across this curious item published in Science in 1926 (“Human tails: a statement and correction”),...
I’ve been flipping through Earnest Hooton’s Up From the Ape (1946 edition). It’s a remarkable book for many reasons. I’m almost transfixed by his discussion ...
In the course of my research for the ape strength article, I ran across an old piece from The Atlantic Monthly, in which Alexander Young gives a long satire ...