About
Brian at Dinosaur National Monument, Utah, during the grand re-opening of the quarry wall in October 2011.
Brian Switek is a freelance science writer, blogger, and author of the critically-acclaimed book Written in Stone: Evolution, the Fossil Record, and Our Place in Nature. In addition to the hundreds of essays he has written for the blogs Laelaps and Dinosaur Tracking, he has also contributed pieces to the Wall Street Journal, Nature, Scientific American, New Scientist, Times of London, Smithsonian, WIRED Science, ScienceNOW, the Guardian, academic journals, and a variety of other publications. He has given talks about evolution, the history of science, blogging, and science communication in both academic and popular venues, and has regularly been interviewed by organizations such as the BBC, the Calgary Herald, and other news sources to discuss new fossil discoveries.
Brian presently lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Want to keep up with Brian's latest work? Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
Blogroll
- Dinosaur Tracking
- Laelaps
@Laelaps Twitter Feed
- The tracks and traces Peeps leave behind t.co/klrJfebS by @Ichnologist Resting traces most common, I would think ht @GeoEvelyn 6 hours ago
- Inner Mongolia moves to protect a local gem of a dinosaur, Gigantoraptor t.co/iPbBPvvj 6 hours ago
- Happy to see my riff on the Yutyrannus art at the @SmithsonianMag photo blog t.co/y5DhiP4O Have to use this in arguments more often 7 hours ago