ROUS’s? I don’t believe they exist. 15 Jan 2008 Anyone who knows the film The Princess Bride knows what happens next. Westley gets hit hard by a rodent about the size of a pitbull. However, it seems that ROUS’s (Rodents of Unusual Size) actually may have existed, in Uruguay. Nature reports that the skull of one has been discovered, and the animal itself may have weighed a tonne (2200lbs) or so. Next, we’ll discover that there are miracle men… Evolution General Science
Biology Darwinism entry revised at SEP 19 Jan 2010 Jim Lennox, who is, among other things, the go-to guy on Aristotle’s biology (at least I went to him whenever I needed to grok some aspect of The Philosopher), is also a well-respected general historian of biological ideas. He has revised his “Darwinism” entry at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,… Read More
General Science Magnetic anomaly map finished 4 Nov 200718 Sep 2017 [A guest post by palentologist and geologist Chris Nedin] It’s taken the best part of 50 years but it’s finally here! 50 years after the International Geophysical Year (1957-8) that took a global geophysical view of the globe, one of the outcomes of that global geophysical view has just been… Read More
Epistemology Some of my recent talks 30 May 201222 Jun 2018 I just discovered SlideRocket, a Google app that displays slides, and so I thought I’d put up some of my talks. Here goes. I hope they work. This is a talk about whether God could create a world in which Darwinian accidents occur. It ended up as a paper in Zygon: This… Read More
Yabbut the “standard” example of Diprotodon is a wombat, which is about the size of an small esky, so a Volkswagen sized esky isn’t such a leap. But a Volkswagen sized rat is a whole nother thing.
The new critter is called Josephoartigasia monesi (which isn’t as bad as Parapropalaehoplophorus septentrionalis for a name) and the paper describing it is up over at Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
John, you can’t be Inigo Montoya. My father is still alive. As for the rat, on the BBC World Service this morning (err, morning our time), they said it was a vegetarian. I got this image of a huge rat idly chewing its way along a swathe of tropical forest. Bob
John, you can’t be Inigo Montoya. My father is still alive. As for the rat, on the BBC World Service this morning (err, morning our time), they said it was a vegetarian. I got this image of a huge rat idly chewing its way along a swathe of tropical forest. Bob
John, you can’t be Inigo Montoya. My father is still alive. As for the rat, on the BBC World Service this morning (err, morning our time), they said it was a vegetarian. I got this image of a huge rat idly chewing its way along a swathe of tropical forest. Bob
John, you can’t be Inigo Montoya. My father is still alive. As for the rat, on the BBC World Service this morning (err, morning our time), they said it was a vegetarian. I got this image of a huge rat idly chewing its way along a swathe of tropical forest. Bob
Wait, I know something you don’t know… or rather, the article says something you didn’t read. They’re comparing it to a capybara, rather than a rat. Which is rather like the wombat/diprodoton comparison. Although everything is obviously bigger and better in SE Queensland, if John has an Esky the size of a wombat.
Wait, I know something you don’t know… or rather, the article says something you didn’t read. They’re comparing it to a capybara, rather than a rat. Which is rather like the wombat/diprodoton comparison. Although everything is obviously bigger and better in SE Queensland, if John has an Esky the size of a wombat.
Shhh… you’re ruining the moment 🙂 Do you mean to say, Dr. Wilkins, that you played fast and loose with the truth to make your argument seem stronger? I’m shocked! I thought philosophers (excepting christian philosophers) were honor bound to tell the truth without fudging. 😉