Emily is an author, paleontological illustrator, and nature photographer with a passion for anything and everything with feathers. Her work—ranging from paleoart to science communication on evolution—has been featured in journals, books, and museums around the world. Her artwork, photography, and social media links can be found on emilywilloughby.com. She is currently working toward a graduate degree in cognitive psychology.
The Art of Scientific Illustration
By Shayna Keyles Twitter @shaynakeyles Instagram @shaynakeyles Scientific illustration is more than just cool artwork. It’s a way of conveying ...
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Book Review: God’s Word or Human Reason?
Title: God’s Word or Human Reason? An Inside Perspective on Creationism Reviewed by: Steven Spence for GotScience.org, a Science Connected ...
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GotScience Book Reviews for Holiday Season 2016
[tweetthis]Looking for science books to give as gifts or to read yourself? Check out our reviews![/tweetthis] Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely ...
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Amber Preserves Details of Ancient Bird Wings
By Emily Willoughby @eawilloughby I am a paleoartist—a scientific illustrator whose job is to combine paleontological research with inference, logic, ...
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Nests, Neurons, and the Evolution of Behavior
By Emily Willoughby @eawilloughby Evolution is a beautiful thing. We tend to appreciate its elegance and creative productivity most when ...
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Velociraptor Needs Your Help
By Emily Willoughby @eawilloughby Velociraptor! The name strikes excitement into the hearts of dinosaur enthusiasts far and wide, just as ...
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Dromaeosaurus: Dinosaur Brought to Life in Colorful Sculpture
By Shayna Keyles @shaynakeyles David Alden is a sculptor who, in his latest project, combines his enthusiasm for paleontology and ...
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Bird Eyes: The Greatest Eyes on Earth
By Emily Willoughby @eawilloughby Powered flight has arisen independently on our planet a total of five times: in insects, pterosaurs, ...
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Bird Migration: I’ll Fly Home—or Not
By Mark Lasbury, MS, MSEd, PhD @Biologuy1 The arctic tern travels from north of the Arctic Circle to Antarctica and ...
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Discovered: Nearby Planets that Could Host Life
MIT researchers found three potentially habitable planets orbiting an ultracool dwarf star The study, released today in Nature, located the ...
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Big, Beautiful Bird Brains
By Emily Willoughby @eawilloughby It is probably not a coincidence that the verbs ape and parrot have such a similar ...
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Osprey: Bird of Many Names
By Steven Spence guān guān jū jiū ‘Fair, fair,’ cry the ospreys 关 关 雎 鸠 zài hé zhī zhōu ...
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Discovering Dakotaraptor Steini
By Featured Guest David Blagic David is a young, amateur paleontologist and student of vertebrate paleontology. He lives in Mladenovac, ...
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How Snakes Lost their Legs
By Kate Stone Long ago, snakes lost their legs. Now, a fresh clue as to how and why has been ...
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Dakotaraptor: Giant Raptor Straight Out of Hell Creek
By Emily Willoughby For centuries, dinosaurs have captured the public’s imagination through their massive proportions and power, and their ancestral ...
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