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After years of neglect and underfunding, Austin’s only natural history museum reconsiders its role

What's going on at Texas Memorial Museum?

Collage and stop-motion come together in his homemade epic Path of Blood

The local science historian debuts her new book about famous fossil hominids

Seven Skeletons' Lydia Pyne cites Robert J. Sawyer's The Hominids as a fiction book that gets Neanderthals right

Spray Paint evolves classic ATX post punk

'Aguirre, the Wrath of God' meets 'Jurassic Park'

Greg Graffin's evolution of anarchy

If plans proceed, the Mineral Wells Fossil Site may become only the fourth public park in the U.S. where visitors can keep the fossils they find

Why Texas needs more walking dinosaurs

Wrangham posits that cooking and the dietary benefits it confers played a crucial role in hominid evolution and the entire arc of human social development

The State Board of Education does its part to fantasize biology

Blanco County's crime-solving game warden John Marlin is back.

Analyzing Alan Berliner's most personal documentary yet

After Monster Island Studios sank, Austin's acting community and Houston animé giant A.D. Vision unleashed talent bent on vengeance and redemption (*otaku = animé geek)

It used to be a commonplace of moralists that man was the only creature in the animal kingdom to slaughter his own kind. But as Chronicle writer Roger Gathman points out, kind is slaughtered by kind routinely among ants, salamanders, and, as any child can tell you, guppies. The golden rule, in nature, is not "do unto others" -- it is "why waste the protein?"

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