Evolution Diary

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — What’s 34 centimeters (13.39 inches) long, likes the cold and has an interorbital pit with two openings? (…)

Two days ago, the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) issued a press release urging the new Director of the National Park Service (NPS), Mary Bomar, to end the stalling tactics that prevent review of “approved” books, remove a current creationist book from sale at the park and allow park interpretive rangers to honestly answer questions from the public about the geologic age of the Grand Canyon. (…)

Pictures and video of the young 7 meter Giant Squid caught by Japanese scientists. Imagine how big adults can be. The sad thing is that this specimen died during the capture. (…)

Palaeontologists have found a tiny dinosaur-era reptile with two heads—the first time the extremely rare developmental anomaly has been found in a fossil. (…)

The smallest form of life known to science just got smaller. (…)