All about extinct animals, particularly those that have disappeared in relatively recent times.
[featured image] Elasmotherium was an enigmatic beast of the Eurasian steppe. It’s a long time dead that’s for sure, but tales of this creature or something decidedly like it dwell in the folk memory of the tribes who inhabit central Asia and beyond into the wastes of Siberia. This massive …
[featured image] In the right circumstances birds can evolve into giants. In the vast majority of cases they have done this on oceanic islands in the absence of any large land predators and most of these extinct giant birds are decidedly lacking when it comes to predatory ferocity, as birds …
[featured image] Let’s start this post with a picture: What’s going on here? Some photoshop jiggery-pokery? An amphibian version of Russian dolls? …
[featured image] Back in March, my second big book was published after many months of tapping away at my Remington typewriter and …