Raptormaniacs

The results of last year's poll are in. While not as one-sided as the poll for 2010 , we have a clear winner in the troodont Talos , fo...

My first shot at one of these end-of-the-year reviews that appear popular among bloggers. (Okay, technically it's a looking-back-at-the-...

Those who read my lowly blog will no doubt be familiar with the work of Matt Martyniuk . As an incredibly talented paleoartist, Matt's r...

More trips to the National Zoo , yay. A red-billed hornbill in the Bird House . In the same exhibit, some black crakes that were too act...

Circling back towards the main zoo entrance, I stopped by at the Small Mammal House. This is a golden-headed lion tamarin, a species I don...

Besides the invertebrate house , there were also other exhibits behind the Reptile Discovery Center that I hadn't looked at on my first ...