20 Years of The Future is Wild

[This blog post is a written counterpart to my presentation at Specposium 2022] On June 25, 2022, a little show finished its run on educational TV stations in the UK. At the end of that year, an hour-and-a-half edit version aired on American television. It spawned a multimedia franchise that extended into publishing, museum exhibits, …

Plate tectonics of the far future

As we should all know, the earth's plates are on the move. The theory of plate tectonics is a well-supported mechanism for the movement of the continents in deep time. It explains many prior observations about geology and biogeography, and can be directly observed today via GPS. It makes sense that therefore plate tectonics will …

Specposium 2021

Speculative evolution, aka speculative biology, is a fascinating field. I think it's really neat because it involves integrating creativity and a solid scientific grounding. Apparently a lot of other people think so too, because it's very popular among biology and paleontology enthusiasts on the internet. But there isn't really a centralized spec evo community on …

The Dinosauroid sheds its feathers on our culture

Ah, the dinosauroid. At once loved and hated, the idea of troodontids evolving into sapient, even humanoid beings has probably piqued many of our interests at some point. Paleontologist Dale Russell's "lizard man" dinosauroid is the most infamous and well-known expression of the concept, but there are many other instances of the idea being explored, …