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Image from HERE . From Today In Science History : Today in 1953, Watson and Crick submitted to the journal Nature their first article on th...

Nessie from HERE . From the Glasgow Sunday Mail : Scotland’s top dinosaur expert has stunned the science world by claiming the Loch Ness Mon...

Art © Tom Bagley Now really, what’s going to get your attention – a headline like “ Mars Needs Bikinis ” or “ ALBERTA PALAEONTOLOGICAL SOCI...

From seven.com.au : Snake fossils up to 25 million years old unearthed in north-west Queensland strongly suggest snakes evolved from lizards...

From The Times of India : In a rare discovery last week, a team from the earth sciences department of IIT, Roorkee in Uttaranchal, along wit...

Hey Kids! More Kong art © Pete Von Sholly! From Sina English : Big budget epic " King Kong " has generated 100.3 million yuan (ab...

From The People’s Daily On-line : Dr. Li Li from the Institute of Mesozoic Paleontology of Western Liaoning of the Shenyang Normal Universi...

From the Shanghai Daily : The remains of a new species of 100-million-year-old bird have been found in a fossil-rich area of northeastern Ch...

© Pete Von Sholly More fun stuff from Pete Von Sholly ! NOTE: The cool 'Space Thing' figure I mentioned HERE was sculpted by Pete...

From Bruce Bower at Science News : A 260,000-year-old partial skeleton excavated in northwestern China 22 years ago represents our largest k...

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March 2, 1886 - November 8, 1962 “O’Bie” was the special effects wizard best known to the world as the man who created King Kong. Read abo...

Comparing amber fossil assemblages across the Cenozoic . 2006, David Penney, and A. Mark Langan. Scientists have carried out the first compa...

Artist Pete Von Sholly has been burning up his drawing table recently, having produced the above cover for the current issue of Prehistoric...

photo © M. Ryan The nose of CMN 8801 photographed while I've been working at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Gatineau, QC, recently. T...

From UC Davis : If the history of life were to play out again from the beginning, it would have a similar plot and outcomes, although with a...

Here's a not-quite-perfect photo of an artifact from my childhood, still hanging proudly in my parents basement. I suspect that this puz...

From the Free New Mexican : Federal agents seized three fossil dinosaur eggs, each the size of a small watermelon, and some 14,000 lbs of ot...

Tor and art © Joe Kubert. Click to enlarge. Another fun page from Joe Kubert 's ' Tor '.

Inferred behaviour and ecology of the primitive sabre-toothed cat Paramachairodus ogygia (Felidae, Machairodontinae) from the Late Miocene ...