Friday Links

The Trilobite Blog has part one of a three part series about birds & dinosaurs, featuring a famous paleontological legend involving T.H. Huxley.

John Wilkins wasn't impressed with Richard Dawkins (although Jim Lippard has presented a kinder summary of the ASU event).

If you haven't seen it yet, the second edition of the journal Evolution: Education and Outreach is now available.

Welcome the two newest members to the Sb community; Josh Donlan at Shifting Baselines and Jane at See Jane Compute.

Jessica delves into the D&D bestiary at Bioemphemera.

Garfield, minus Garfield. Trust me, it's funny.

T. Ryan Gregory has a brief piece of bird/dinosaur genome sizes.

Do you know who William Whewell was? You should.

Linnaeus' Legacy #5 is up at the Catalogue of Organisms.

And there's always room for more violent paleo-art...

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