Brian Switek

Wired Science Blogger

Brian Switek is a freelance science writer and a paleontology volunteer with the Natural History Museum of Utah. He is also author of the books My Beloved Brontosaurus and Written in Stone.

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Did Hunger Drive the Evolution of Homo sapiens?

Dec 21, 2011 4:40 PM

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Why Is a Pelican Like a Whale?

Dec 19, 2011 6:04 PM

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Repost: Life in the Trees Shaped the Panda's Thumb

Dec 14, 2011 5:40 PM

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Repost: The Dodo is Dead, Long Live the Dodo!

Dec 12, 2011 11:39 AM

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The Squid and the Ape

Dec 10, 2011 6:14 PM

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The Demise of the Komodo Kings

Dec 8, 2011 5:21 PM

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Teeth, From the Outside In

Dec 6, 2011 3:04 PM

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Repost: Not a Wolf, But a Tiger

Dec 4, 2011 12:14 PM

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How Tylosaurus Lost Its Fringe, and Other Squamate Stories

Dec 2, 2011 5:58 PM

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Paleontologists Uncover Wyoming's Formidable Fossil Frogmouth

Nov 30, 2011 8:29 PM

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Inside the Columbian Mammoth, Signs of a Woolly Cousin

Nov 28, 2011 6:30 PM

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Repost: Divine Intervention, Dinosaurs, and Darwin's Descent

Nov 26, 2011 10:51 AM

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Alabama's Wealth of Fossil Dinosaur Feathers

Nov 24, 2011 2:52 PM

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In Evolution's Race, Horseshoe Crabs Took a Slower Pace

Nov 22, 2011 6:12 PM

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When Whales Walked in Egypt

Nov 21, 2011 6:35 AM

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Written in Stone, One Year Later

Nov 10, 2011 1:47 PM

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Debating Diatryma

Nov 8, 2011 5:00 PM

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Repost: Revenge of the Meat-Eating Megatherium

Oct 31, 2011 12:26 PM

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Cookie-Cutter Cat Not as Cute as the Name Sounds

Oct 27, 2011 4:03 PM

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American Lion, or Giant Jaguar? - In Search of Panthera atrox

Oct 24, 2011 8:04 PM