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A primitive fish provides key characters bearing on deep osteichthyan phylogeny . 2006. M. Zhu, et al. Nature 441: 77-81. Abstract: Osteich...

The Lancelet is the excellent blog by Martin Brazeau, a Canadian grad student studying in Sweden, who posts his interesting thoughts on pal...

It's Sunday again so let's open the funny pages for the kids. Jimmy Olsen and Superman © DC Comics. Cover from HERE . CLICK ON ALL I...

No, it’s not palaeo but it is very cool science, and well worth your attention: Watch videos of Huygens descending to and landing on Titan H...

From Today In Science History : In 1925, John T. Scopes was taken under arrest for violating a new state law against the teaching of Darwin...

May, 4, 1825 -- June 29, 1895. From the UC Berkeley Page : Huxley was born in Ealing, near London, the seventh of eight children in a family...

A distal enhancer and an ultraconserved exon are derived from a novel retroposon . 2006. G. Bejerano, et al. Nature 441: 87-90. Art © Mark S...

Testing the genetics underlying the co-evolution of mate choice and ornament in the wild . 2006. A. Qvarnström, et al. Nature 441: 84-86. Im...

On the Pleistocene extinctions of Alaskan mammoths and horses . A.R. Solow, et al. PNAS published on-line May 1, 2006 Image from HERE Abstr...

May 2, 1860 – June 21, 1948 From cscs.umich.edu : D'Arcy Thompson was a British biologist whose masterwork, On Growth and Form , is a pr...

Even wings that are still in development help living birds gain traction on slopes and scale obstacles From the American Institute of Biolog...

From CNN.com : The Empire State Building, once the tallest building in the world and again the tallest in New York City, is turning 75 years...

© Michel Gagné The graphic anthology “ Flight ” will shortly be releasing it’s third annual volume into book stores through Ballantine Book...

From The Montreal Gazette: The Montreal Science Centre presents “Ice Age Mammals” , an inspiring exploration of all things ice age, filled w...

If you’re in Houston take note that The Houston Museum of Natural Science is having a family Dino-Day (called “ Dinopalooza ”) May 13 from 1...

DINOSAURS! A T. rex named SUE and Friends! 20 May to 20 August 2006 Marcus Ng at Budak.blogs.com lets us know that ‘Sue’ the T. rex will ...

John Kyrk has developed a great Evolution Slider that takes you from the origin of the universe to the present day and tracks a variety of ...

News@Nature.com has an article about the recent Australopithecus anamensis n. sp. find in Ethiopia including this nifty chart outlining ...

Kyl Chhatwal of the Waterloo Record has an article on the recent find of Tiktaalik roseae in Nunavat and the abundance of fossils in Canad...

“Conquering the Darkness,” an exhibit on the work of the famous artist, Charles Knight, is closing soon at the Museum of the Earth in Ithica...