Our next PhyloPizza event will take place Tuesday, May 13, at 5:30 in the National Museum of Natural History’s Vertebrate Zoology seminar room (WG-33). Brain O’Meara will give a talk entitled “Dealing with the heterogeneity of life for comparative methods.” Join us! Keep up to date with future events here. Flier for this event here.

We in The Braun Lab are big fans of owls, facts, and funny videos. So here’s something we recently found, and instantly loved. Enjoy.

Work conducted in part by colleagues here at the National Museum of Natural History has recently culminated in the presentation of Anzu wyliei, a feathered dinosaur with crested bone structure on the top of its head. The Washington Post was quick to dub it the chicken from hell (and we love that name)!