Did mosasaurs have forked tongues?

Why snakes have forked tongues.

The serpent's forked tongue has intrigued humankind for millennia, but its function has remained obscure. Theory, anatomy, neural circuitry, function, and behavior now support a hypothesis of the forked tongue as a chemosensory edge detector used to follow pheromone trails of prey and conspecifics. The ability to sample simultaneously two points along a chemical gradient provides the basis for ...

Forked Tongues Revisited: Molecular Apomorphies Support Morphological Hypotheses of Squamate Evolution

Intracranial Mobility in Mosasaurs

Did the Universe have a beginning?

The recent excellent article by Tom van Flandern on the evidence against the theory of the expanding universe stimulates an endeavour to get to the heart of the matter by logically reducing this complex problem to its simplest possible form. The improved instrumental capacity available to astronomers in recent years has progressively refined the evaluation of the Hubble constant, and a stage is...

Shakespeare's chancre: did the bard have syphilis?

Shakespeare's obsessive interest in syphilis, his clinically exact knowledge of its manifestations, the final poems of the sonnets, and contemporary gossip all suggest that he was infected with "the infinite malady." The psychological impact of venereal disease may explain the misogyny and revulsion from sex so prominent in the writings of Shakespeare's tragic period. This article examines the ...