Current discoveries, from the field
New finds in paleontology, geology, and earthquake science — with a working field paleontologist's take on what they mean and how they connect to ground I've actually dug. I cite the original research and add the part no wire service can: three decades in the rock.
Seismology · July 23, 2026
New research finds a great Cascadia rupture could load the northern San Andreas enough to trigger a second quake. I run a seismograph on the coast between them — this is exactly what it watches for.
Read the dispatch →Geology · July 23, 2026
New chemistry pins the Chicxulub impactor as a rare carbonaceous chondrite from the outer solar system. It's a geology story and a paleontology story at once — which is the whole point of this pile.
Read the dispatch →Paleontology · July 23, 2026
A new study reads tyrannosaur feeding traces in Wyoming dinosaur bone — one even left a tooth embedded in an Edmontosaurus skull. Same state I dug. About 85 million years and a whole formation apart.
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