A chimp's diet can be studied through microscopic opals.
Tag - palaeontology
Dale Maylea
From Emerald Planet to Eden with Prof. Beerling
Making Eden by David Beerling, 2019. Oxford University Press. Almost 12 years ago I reviewed David Beerling’s previous book The Emerald Planet. I was very impressed with that slim, but information-packed, volume; I’m...
Nigel Chaffey
Sore diners, cycads and birds…
… and now to … dinosaurs (!). Dinosaurs? Well, we did say at the outset of this mini series of articles that ‘seeds and animals’ was a very old association. Unlike the other animal associations mentioned already in this...
You can’t be best at everything…
There is a widespread belief that everything in/of/from/about America is bigger, better, faster, etc, than anything from elsewhere in the world. That is probably the best example of spin over substance ever foisted on...
Junior science: that shrinking feeling…
We often bemoan the fact that we know neither whither nor whence will come the next generation of plant scientists (e.g. Sinéad Drea). Well, here’s an inspiring tale from the USA that might just give part of the answer...
