Tyrannosaurus rex. Back when I was a boy, there wasn’t a child worth his or her collection of little plastic dinosaurs that didn’t know the name of this (then, at least) most fearsome – and singular – of creatures.
The Tyrannosaur Chronicles
John E. Riutta
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Posts by John E. Riutta, MA, MBA, FLS, MemRES:
The Spider You Thought You Knew
Far more difficult than teaching a cat a trick or eating only one potato chip is the challenge of explaining to someone that the Brown Recluse spider he or she claimed to have recently seen was, in fact, very likely not one. There’s just something about this species that has taken hold of our imaginations; […]
The Wood for the Trees
This coming December, Dr. Fortey’s most recent book, “The Wood for the Trees; One Man’s Long View of Nature,” will see publication in the U.S. This new book sees the author describing what he has found on his four acres in the Chiltern Hills of Oxfordshire and what can be interpreted about the larger ecological systems of our planet from these discoveries.
Birds of Montana
In 1921, the journal Pacific Coast Avifauna published “A Distributional List of the Birds of Montana with Notes on the Migration and Nesting of the Better Known Species” by Aretas A. Saunders. Since that time it has remained the only comprehensive reference book to the bird species of that state – until now.