Matt's Sci/Tech Blog

I have the latest Dunkleosteus model on the market, and it's pretty amazing visually, even if the science causes a bit of head-scratchin...

Sometimes it seems that news related to animal conservation and zoology in general is all or mostly bad, whether concerning the disappearanc...

There are few animals more interesting than bears. I've written several times before about them, but I can never resist coming back and ...

It looks like "Finding Dory" is a whale of a hit.  Great news for a warm, funny family film, not so good for the real fish.  Conse...

OK, I finished my first read of MEG: Nightstalkers .   Alten's latest is full of creature action, indeed a little overstuffed, and th...

(by Matt Bille with help from Dr. Darren Naish and Richard Ellis) From Shadows of Existence , 2006, Hancock House Unusual cetaceans are ...

Beyond the Ice Limit Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child Grand Central Publishing, 2016, 384pp. I love the science-heavy thrillers of Dou...

I'm not a medical researcher. I'm not a doctor. But I'm a parent (both now in college) and I can read. So can we all, but someti...

“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” If this isn’t the most-quoted maxim in cryptozoology, I don’t know what is.  But let’s ...

Sally Ride was born 65 years ago this day. As the world's first female astronaut whose flight was NOT a rushed publicity stunt, Ride has...

I'm not an expert on GMOs, and when I'm not an expert, I listen to the people who are. That's what all of us should do.   That...

What is cryptozoology? There has always been a troublesome subtopic bubbling through the already troublesome topic of cryptozoology.  Cry...

Cats are mysterious. All peoples, including the Egyptians who sometimes worshipped them as gods (something cats take as their due), seem ...