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AMNH Paleontologist Michael Novacek lectures on Evolution, Biodiversity, and Mass Extinction @ 8 pm Earth to humans, Earth to humans . . . is anybody there? Michael Novacek of the American Museum of Natural History discusses how biodiversity and ecosystems evolved from the Age of the Dinosaurs onward to create an ideal environment for a novel new species-- Homo sapiens . And now, Dr. Novacek warns, Homo sapiens is transforming that environment so rapidly that Earth may not be habitable in future. In fact, Earth is experiencing what scientists call the Sixth Extinction as thousands of plant and animal species are pushed into oblivion by habitat destruction, overfishing and overhunting, the introduction of invasive species, pollution and climate change. The provost of science at the American Museum of Natural History , a world-renowned dinosaur hunter , and the author of Terra: Our 100-Million-Year-Old Ecosystem—and the Threats That Now Put It at Risk , Dr. Novacek takes the long vi

If you missed our taxidermy contest , take a peek at this feral video courtesy of New York magazine.

The 3rd-annual Carnivorous Nights Taxidermy Contest --held at Union Hall on the Day of the Dead--was a beastly success! Check out all the photos on Flickr taken by Robert Marbury , Marco Repola , and Eric Harvey Brown . The Rump Ape--patron saint of the taxidermy contest--(pictured above with Union Hall co-owner Andy Templar) congratulates the winners! The winners are: Mike Zohn of Obscura Antiques received the Order of Carnivorous Knights Grand Prize for his "shadowbox mise en scene " of albino weasels posing as miniature polar bears: Takeshi Yamada (last year's Grand Champion of Taxidermy) defended his title and received the Rump Ape Prize for Best Hybrid Creature : Ryan Toth of the Evolution store in SoHo brought down the house with his two-faced cat skeleton, Frank & Louie, and won the Secret Science Club Prize for Best in Bones . Pictured below is Darrin Lunde of the American Museum of Natural History inspecting the cat(s): For his skull--lovingly encrusted with