Holiday Gifts for Science Nerds

It’s time for the ProfessorTreeFrog First-Ever Holiday Gift Guide!!! 1) This line of plush toys is seriously cute and seriously awesome. They’re called “Evolvems“, and are zip-inside-out plushies demonstrating major evolutionary milestones. They have the Coelacanth-to-Ichthyostega transition, as well as Dimetrodon-Cynognathus, Yinlong-Styracosaurus, and Pakicetus-Squalodon!!! 2) Also a line of plush toys, “Foodchain Friends” is for [...]

Darwin-Dissing Alert!!!

Today is the day that Ray Comfort, the creationist of hand-banana fame, will be distributing copies of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species at “the top 100 universities nationwide”. The catch? A 54-page introduction equating the theory of evolution with Nazism, and overall bashing the venerable Charles Darwin with lies and misinformation. The National Center [...]

Nifty New Fossils Clarify Evolution of Pterosaurs, Hominids

Two new fossil finds published this month have further clarified the outline of the tree of life. I love these kinds of stories! #1 – Darwinopterus modularis First, a new transitional pterosaur has provided evidence of the evolutionary connection between the two major groups of Mesozoic flying reptiles: the long-tailed basal ‘rhamphorinchoids’, and the more [...]

150th Anniversary of the Theory of Evolution

Exactly 150 years ago today Charles Darwin presented his and Alfred Russell Wallace’s papers on the Theory of Evolution to the Linnaean Society. This officially marked the formal establishment of the Theory of Evolution. While Darwin had been working on the problem of natural selection and transformism for many years, Wallace had independently developed similar concepts, particularly [...]