Musings of a Clumsy Palaeontologist

After many years of blogging here at blogspot, I decided it was time to make my way over to Wordpress . I'm still perfecting it, but I h...

One important aspect of palaeontology is identifying the age of the specimen we are describing. Exact age is generally not possible to know,...

There has been a disturbing trend in the last few years by government funding organisations to both decrease the amount of funding for scien...

My initial title for this blog was "Things that people thought were interesting fossils but turned out to be turtles". Of course, ...

I've been living in the UK now for 4.5 years. The first year and a bit was on a student visa (very restrictive, not fun), but for 3 year...

Finally, the baby  Chasmosaurus  paper is out! This specimen is by no means new to the media or public, being highly publicised since it was...

I've talked a lot about my situation as a PhD student that is not fully funded, and this is something I have had to deal a lot with over...