Picking through The Boneyard
8:27 pm
The third edition of The Boneyard, a fossil-based festival of blog posts, is up at Laelaps. Host Brian Switek gave my Snyder Quarry series a very gracious nod, but he’s compiled an heroic amount of other excellent paleontology-themed writings from around the web. It might not be polite to pick favorites, but there are several posts listed there that I think deserve some extra attention:
- Chris Clarke’s vivid description of a Miocene eruption, and how it might have been viewed by its first-hand witnesses.
- Neil at microecos goes into the genome of the American Mastodon, but really he had me at “Incognitum”.
- The Victorian Peeper reports on a fitting upgrade to the Crystal Palace dinosaur sculptures.
- And Zach at When Pigs Fly Returns (who will be hosting the next Boneyard) has a grand gallery of prehistoric weirdness.
Also note that microecos has a list of Brian’s own paleo-themed writings from the previous two weeks, which somehow missed out on inclusion in The Boneyard. I particularly recommend the bit about phytosaurs.
Thanks for the link and compliments, Matt! I actually have left my own posts out of all the Boneyard installments so far because I thought it would be unfair to showboat my own stuff when I was getting extra traffic because of the carnival to begin with. Still, I definitely appreciate you and Neil giving me a nod, too, and I was really impressed by what you guys came up with (and just let me know when you need that endorsement blurb). :)