A belated write up of a lovely afternoon spent in the company of curious beasts at the Whipple Museum as part of Open Cambridge. These lovely beasts, I'm sure you recognise as an Ichthyosaur and a Plesiosaur. Aren't they just beautiful? I spent over an hour just looking through one volume at the Whipple display, Louis Figuier's La terre avant le deluge (1872 edition). I note the date because in his first edition he depicted Adam and Eve in Eden. In his second edition (1867),

I had to write with the excitement and urgency of those discussing with flat earthers what they think caused the solar eclipse this week. One very good friend (who obviously knows what I like) received this booklet and sent it on to me: "How Fossils Refute Darwinism" by Adran Oktar (Harum Yakya). Having just spent the day at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, I could hardly wait till bedtime for my new treat book. Imagine my disappointment to realise that it isn't even ve