Mammoth Tales

Olaus Magnus' 1539 map of Scandinavia, the Baltic Sea, and the North Atlantic, entitled the Carta Marina is a milestone of European car...

Toward the end of the last ice age, there were three(ish) types of mammoths in the world. Last week, in California, paleontologists excavate...

My publisher just showed me a mockup if the book cover. There are some changes that we want to try out. When everyone is agreed on a version...

I originally posted this on the the centennial of the blast. ***** One hundred eight years ago today, something exploded over Siberia. ...

Have I mentioned lately that I was writing a book? Yep, little, old me. Saturday, I finished it. It's written, proofed, noted, biblograp...

Almost six years ago, I wrote a piece about an early trilobite discovery and evidence of prehistoric and pre-literate knowledge of the natur...

The other day, I went to check out how I referred to something in chapter four to make sure I was consistent in chapter five. To my horror (...

A few years back, I mentioned the mammoth book actually was a byproduct of my love of fringe theories. A lo-o-ong time ago, when I was a t...

We sold the book. I've been holding my breath over this, but it finally came together today. Last spring I started sending lots of que...