Conway, Kosemen & Naish (2013), front cover. My newest book – Cryptozoologicon Volume I , co-authored with John Conway and C. M. “Memo” Kosemen – is now available ... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Check out the latest ‘Best-of-the-blogs’ video from the Scientific American Blog network! We’re talking a fat-fueled brain, the benefits of watching scary television, and the... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Here’s the thing about extinctions: They are very rarely witnessed. The last members of a species in the wild tend to go quietly into the night with no one to witness their deaths. All too... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
A native bee in my backyard (Credit: Ferris Jabr) I have been fascinated with living things since childhood. Growing up in northern California, I spent a lot of time playing outdoors among plants... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Image courtesy of WikimediaCommons/steve_lodefink Octopus suckers are extraordinary. They can move and grasp objects independently. They can “taste” the water around them. They can even... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
These small sharks pose no threats to humans. The opposite, however, cannot be said. Species name: Daggernose shark ( Isogomphodon oxyrhynchus ). Notable for their flattened snouts and relatively... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Mugger crocodile (Crocodylus palustris) at Madras Crocodile Bank, Tamil Nadu, India, with sticks on its head. What's going on here? Read on. Photo by Vladinir Dinets, from Dinets et al. (2013).... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Suchomimus (C) Stevie Moore. Click the image to a see a larger version of each image on Moore's site. I think it’s the eyes. [More] -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
A rare alignment of calendars brought an even rarer convergence of events at many Thanksgiving tables this week: Channukah gifts before Thanksgiving pie. And as such, this skittered across my table: ... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
“For the Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird and withal a true original Native of America…” wrote Ben Franklin in a 1784 letter to his daughter.... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com