Researching the Anatomy of Dragons
On this page I intend to give links to the hundreds of every-day articles and scientific works I came across that helped me in the writing of The Anatomy of Dragons series. Most are from popular science sites so anyone should be able to understand them, and I hope they will be informative and interesting to those who are curious. A few of the references are genuine scientific papers published in respected scientific journals, or technical books with which I am familiar.
I’ll be setting the references out under various categories to assist those who are interested whenever I get the some free time to do so. For me, many have proven not only interesting, but also stimulating.
It’ll be a while to get them up, so watch this space as I keep adding over time!
Below is a start to this enterprise.
References: Archaeology
1. Archaeologists Discover Innovative Stone-Age Culture in China – Well-Preserved 40,000-Year-Old Paleolithic Site, SciTech Daily, Origin: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 2022/03/05
2. ‘An Archaeological Emergency’: Artifacts Are Emerging From Melting Alpine Glaciers, ScienceAlert, 2020/10/16,
3. An immense mystery older than Stonehenge – Reshaping previous ideas on the story of civilization, Gobekli Tepe in Turkey was built by a prehistoric people 6,000 years before Stonehenge, BBC Travel 2021/08/06
4. Ancient DNA Continues to Rewrite the 9,000-Year Society-Shaping History of Corn, SciTech Daily, Origin: Smithsonian, 2020/12/15
5. Bronze Age stone slab is oldest 3D map in Europe, BBC News, 2021/4/06
6. Persians were making proto-stainless steel 1,000 years ago, ZME Science, 2020/09/24,
7. The Toba supervolcano eruption caused severe tropical stratospheric ozone depletion, Communications, Earth & Environment, Sergey Osipov, et. al. 2021/04/12
8. Unfreezing the ice age: the truth about humanity’s deep past, theguardian.com 2021/10/19
9. The First Europeans Had a Striking Combination of Features, LiveScience, 2018/02/08
10. ARCHAEOLOGISTS IN MEXICO DISCOVER TREASURES OF MAYAN CIVILIZATION AND GIANT SLOTH FOSSILS IN VAST UNDERWATER CAVE, newsweek.com, 2018/02/20
11. Archaeologists Uncover an Ancient Model of The Universe in Mexico, ScienceAlert, 2018/01/05
12. Massive ice-wall may have blocked passage for first Americans, livescience.com, Charles Q. Choi, 2022/03/21
13. New Human Ancestor Species Discovered… And it had a Tail!, Ancient-origins.net, 2019/04/01
Artificial Life
1. A Novel Definition of Life and Its Implications to
Cybernetic Systems, Phys.org, Source: Planetary Science Institute, 8/10/2021
Genetics and Life
1. New Insight Into Possible Origins of Life: For the First Time Researchers Create an RNA Molecule That Replicates, scitechdaily.com, University Of Tokyo, 2022/03/18
2. Long-Suspected Turbocharger for Memory Found in Brain Cells of Mice, neurosciencenews.com, Source: Columbia University, 2022/03/17
Epidemiology
1. Rabbits face a fresh onslaught akin to myxomatosis – can they survive?, New Scientist, Graham Lawton, 2022/03/16
Energy and Civilization
1. Energy And Civilization: A History, by Vaclav Smil, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2017.
Astrophysics
1. Exiled planet linked to stellar flyby three million years ago, University of California – Berkeley, 2019/02/28
2. Meteor that hit Earth came from beyond the solar system, c|net, Science, 2016/04/19
Biology
1. Cells use sugars to communicate at the molecular level (Update), University of Pennsylvania, 2019/03/01
Human Behavior and Nature
2. Humans have completely destabilized land animal diversity, thenextweb.com, 2019/03/19
3. Record pangolin scale seizure puts scrutiny on endangered animal, New York Post, 2019/04/10
Weather & Climate
1. Predictability limit: Scientists find bounds of weather forecasting, phys.org, 2019/04/15