Author Archives: Jenny Herdman Lando

ROOOAAARRR! A Pet Peeve.
Apologies for the late posting today.  Daylight savings time always messes with me for  a day or so.
Anyway, here is one of my biggest pet peeves.
I’ll be a good educator and use it in a sentence.
There are no four legged dinosaurs.  There are no four legged terrestrial [...]

So how do all these creatures and plants and fungi get those cool scientific names? 
 Scientists are found all over the world. They speak various languages and within that a variety of dialects.   Latin (thanks to Carl Linne) became one of the universal languages of scientists. 
  Systematists follow the rules set forth by the International Committee [...]

Let’s talk about dinosaurs. Not your favorite ones or which ones scare you. Not the difference between herbivores and carnivores. I won’t even mention molluscivores here.
Let’s talk about what makes a dinosaur a dinosaur.
Today’s scientists use a method of classifying all living things. It is called systematics or cladistics. They use specific anatomical features, both [...]

I have many nicknames. As I am sure you do as well. But do you have a custom ordered embroidered trucker cap with yours on it? No? I didn’t think so. Mine shows a tiny Protoceratops andrewsii emerging from its egg. And in pretty pink letters it reads Paleobarbie.
That’s me! Larry asked me to start [...]