Monthly Archives: January 2012

Earthling Bulletin #1

by Rafael Silva do Nascimento and Piter Kehoma Boll We want to bring every month a post of this bulletin with natural history network itens that catch our attention. Every month we will write the article and along with it … Continue reading

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Some thoughts: pigeons, sparrows and buses

by Rafael Silva do Nascimento This post is just a note about something I have been witnessing more frequently in my daily life. I use to wait for the bus at a terminal attached to a subways station in the … Continue reading

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Once found and then forgotten: the not so bright side of Taxonomy

by Piter Kehoma Boll One of the big questions without an answer in our knowledge of the world is “How many species are there on the Earth?” and we are far from having even an approximation of the real number. … Continue reading

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Why I Don’t Trust Jack Horner 1: The Holes in the Old Triceratops Idea

By Carlos Augusto Chamarelli As my friends know very well, I’m a fervent opponent of Jack Horner’s ideas. So naturally I had to start a series for analyzing and counter attacking some of his wackiest theories about dinosaur which, I … Continue reading

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