Unicorns Are Impossible and Also Boring
Unicorns have appeared in the myths and legends of numerous ancient cultures. Nowadays they are a universally recognized creature that has become synonymous with rarity. So it seems strange that despite being so widespread, and ultimately being such a simple concept, that unicorns don’t exist. After all, it’s just a horse with a horn. But…
Monster Flies: Strange Tales of Mutation
In the 1986 horror movie, “The Fly”, a quantum teleportation accident slowly merges eccentric scientist Dr. Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum) and a common house fly together into a being known as “Brundlefly”. Over the course of the movie, Dr. Brundle becomes more grotesque as he concurrently loses his humanity. Since teleportation is not real, we…
The Possibility of a Dragon: Smaug
Dragons have fascinated humans since stories have been told and written records have been kept. What about dragons fascinates us so much? Is it the impossibility of them? Or could it be the possibility of them? After all, dragons have been found in almost every culture; from China to Mesoamerica. I too have been bitten…
Can we make a dinosaur?
I’m not saying that we should do it, all I’m saying is that maybe we could do it. This is obviously just a thought experiment. Legality aside, most of the options I’m going to mention would be highly immoral and probably deadly for the animal. Basically, what I’m saying is don’t try this at…
An Introduction to Monster Biology
Officially, I study the evolution of development (evo-devo for short). Personally, I would rather consider myself a monster biologist. A standard reaction to a statement like that would be something like “But monsters aren’t real! How could you research something that doesn’t exist?” And my response to that would be “Of course monsters are real!…
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