Remember Evolutionary Psychology? The theory?
It’s over.

Especially for Teachers
Teachers Under Fire
Is Blood Ever Blue? Science Teachers Want to Know!
Teachers Gone Wild

Resources (documents)

Bill Foster’s Letter
The Grubbs and Gibbs Memorandum: Require A Religious Reading of the Evolutionary Record in Public Schools

Education and Public Science: Creationism, Intelligent Design, Home Schooling
The Myers - Rue Debate And Why They Had to Taser Me
The Bible-Thumping Grinch […]

St. Bernard Dog
I woke up this morning to see headlines such as the following in my newsreader:
Study Casts Doubt on Creationism … and St. Bernard Study Casts Doubt on Creationism….
It turns out that the shape of the dog’s head has evolved over time, and that this can only be explained […]

The African Ground Hornbill, Bucorvus leadbeateri. Hornbills are know for their giant bills, large enough in relation to body size that they typically have two of their neck vertebrae fused to support the extra weight in the head.
Hornbills fall into two different families, the Bucerotidae (most of the hornbills) and Bucorvidae (the […]

Search and Serendipity is hosting I and the Bird # 60. Don’t miss it!

Oreotragus oreotragus, or Klipspringer. Klipspringer is Afrikaans for “Rock Jumper. Also known as mvundla (derived from Xhosa for rabbit).
The Klippie is an antelope. Meaning, its in the Subfamily Antilopinae, with the dik-diks, gazelles, steenbok, and so on, as distinct from the other groups that include other creatures also called antelopes, […]

Larus philadelphia
Larus philadelphia, or Bonaparte’s gull. We were driving at 60 mph. Looking out the front window of the car, it was possible to see twenty or thirty gulls flying erratically overhead. As we drove forward, those gulls would disappear behind us and more would be visible in front of us. […]

Rock Dasssie, Procavia capensis. It hangs out on rocks, dens in convenient mini-caves, mainly eats grass, and has habitual “toilet areas” … which can develop quite a smell, and in time, can serve as a paleoclimate indicator. You are looking at a photograph of one day’s food supply for the nearest […]

A new species of bird is discovered in Brazail, discussed at length by GrrlScientist.
Meanwhile on the extinction side of things, we find the discovery by both congress and experts of an extraordinarily cynical plan but together by the Bush Administration to save an endangered owl. Instead of protecting rapidly vanishing habitat, just kill off […]

Greetings.
I have returned from South Africa, and I’m now resting up from a busy trip in a cabin on a lake in in the North Country. From where I’m sitting, I can watch as three seagulls and two crows harass one of the two Bald Eagles that nest a few hundred meters from here. […]

… because it used to be EXTINCT!
But then, it got better.
From the National Geographic:
The rare recurve-billed bushbird, recently rediscovered by scientists in Colombia after a 40-year absence, sports a curving beak that gives the illusion of an enigmatic smile.
This photograph, taken by a conservationist with the Colombia-based nonprofit Fundación ProAves, is the first ever taken […]

(That’s Kimberly Bostwick of Cornell)
[Thanks Joe!]

I had been thinking that by now, Gorilla gorilla grauerii, the so called “Eastern Lowland Gorilla,” was extinct. There were to my knowledge only a few tiny populations of the gorillas, and they have been surrounded by warfare, rebel activity, illegal logging operations, and poaching for over a decade.
There are two major […]

A recent report by the National Audubon Society (available here, and blogged about here, on 10,000 Birds) indicates that a number of “common” birds are in decline. I have heard of criticism of the report, specifically, that the data are not very good (this is based on bird census data). I currently have […]

Please consider visiting The Creation Museum. This is a “web carnival” of Internet resources about the new museum in Kentucky.