Stories by Michael B. Habib

Michael B. Habib is a paleontologist and biomechanist at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles and the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association. He studies the anatomy and motion of pterosaurs, birds and feathered dinosaurs. Credit: Nick Higgins

Evolution

Fossils Reveal When Animals Started Making Noise

For billions of years Earth was quiet. Then life got loud

January 10, 2022 — Michael B. Habib

Culture

How to Make a Hippogriff Fly and Other Flights of Fancy

A paleontologist and an illustrator team up to make mythical creatures follow biomechanical rules

April 9, 2021 — Michael B. Habib and Terryl Whitlatch

Evolution

Pterosaurs Were Monsters of the Mesozoic Skies

Fossils and mathematical modeling are helping to answer long-standing questions about these bizarre animals

September 17, 2019 — Michael B. Habib