The Great Pyramid of Giza is almost unfathomably old, but new information about its construction gets published with such regularity that it’s worthy of a post to review what some of the most recent studies have postulated.A great mind-bender is that Egypt’s largest pyramid was built about 2,600 BCE, and the last Egyptian Pharaoh, Cleopatra […]
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Here I am, situating myself in “giant sloth” position like my fossil friend here, a _Megalonyx jeffersonii_ knicknamed Sid. Dating from the Cenazoic Era’s Pleistocene Epoch (2.5 million – 12,000 years ago), this giant sloth was 9 feet 8 inches high (about 3 meters), making him “only” medium-height among the giant ground sloths. This exquisite
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This is St. George Jackson Mivart, and he ruffled the feathers of proponents of every side of the evolution debates of the 19th century. The second slide is a fossil of a ancient species called Archaeopteryx, and its ruffled feathers were at the center of evolutionary debates of the 19th century.Mivart was raised Anglican but
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