I will owe much of my dissertation to the humbling generosity of the John S. Hilson Family Fund. Below. is the foundation's president, Professor Billy Hilson, whipping by on a motorcycle (generous AND cool).
It's an honor and a privilege to be dissecting you in the lab this week. I visit your webpage all the time. I'm one of your biggest fans. I hope you're taking it easy in your big jar now, after our long day together. See you in the morning...
Collection staff... please don't hate! I needed hard to get data for my Master's thesis and did my best to keep it kosher. Here, I describe how to reach a middle ground between, "no no NO desctuctive sampling!" and "do whatever you want kid, I'm going on break". I hope...
I drew this figure to address the question -> What is a species? Is it a human construct? Nope! Species are real. But discovering them is not an exact science. This sometimes causes scientists to freak out and creationists to laugh at us for trying. This relates to the...
Over the past few years, a few coral snakes have turned up where they'd never been seen before. It got some folks wondering! They wanted to know more. Click image to be re-directed to presentation.
Chamaeleo jacksonii from the pet trade. Frozen lizards courtesy of paleontologist, Sterling Nesbitt. Skeletonized in Chicago, July 2013. Archived in my personal collection. Four specimens in series.
After I skinned and eviscerated this chameleon quartet, I left them t...
Hello San Fransisco! Collecting more monitor lizard hyoid thesis data via a Charles Stearns Grant in Aid for Herpetology. What a productive month July was.
Three pals decided to disappear into one of the massive tracts of pristine rainforest systems that comprises the Guiana Shield of northeastern South America. Ecotourism guru David Banchich was the brain behind this venture. He persona...
I was lucky enough to add an outgroup to my monitor-lizard-hyoid-project sample while on a snake hunting trip in Trinidad. Why was I in Trinidad? Because herpetologist John Murphy is an extremely nice guy. John publishes extensively on the herpetofauna of Tri...
