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High temperatures near the equator speed up the metabolisms of the inhabitants, fueling genetic changes that actually lead to the creation o...

Hebrew University Photo by Sasson Tiram Discovery of eight previously unknown, ancient animal species within "a new and unique undergro...

A mysterious skull discovered on the edge of the Arctic Circle has sparked interest in what creatures roamed Baffin Island in the distant pa...

From KLS.com : Utah bone diggers have uncovered what could be the largest and heaviest armored dinosaur on the planet. The dino appears to b...

May 28, 1807 - Dec. 14, 1873 (Jean) Louis (Rodolphe) Agassiz was a Swiss-born U.S. naturalist, geologist, and teacher who made revolutionar...

Homology of arthropod anterior appendages revealed by Hox gene expression in a sea spider . 2006. Muriel Jager et al. Nature 441: 506-508 Ju...

X-Men © Marvel Comices; created by Jack Kirby (who should have a truck full of money generated from new movie delivered to his estate but wh...

Origin of the Rheic Ocean: Rifting along a Neoproterozoic suture? . 2006. J.B. Murphy et al., Geology: Vol. 34: 325–328. Like pieces in a gi...

Link Eric Gelber at www.artcritical.com has a long article about a installation in NYC by Mark Dion. Here’s a excerpt written in ‘Art-Criti...

Developmental basis for hind-limb loss in dolphins and origin of the cetacean bodyplan . 2006. J. G. M. Thewissen, et al., published on-line...

Image Mike Miller/The Salt Lake Tribune The Salt Lake Tribune has a nice article on vertebrate paleontology in Utah that name checks, Alan...

May 22, 1846 – Novemeber 2, 1930 Hay was an American paleontologist whose catalogs of fossil vertebrates greatly organized existing knowle...

Today paleontologist Robert Sullivan of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission will make an announcement of interest to both din...

Calgary Zoo T. rex (left) © Kipling West; Sinclair Tyrannosaurus , Glen Rose, Texas from here . In 2004 Kipling West did this painting for ...

Patricia Princehouse from the Dept. of Philosophy just across the road from me at Case Western Reserve University gave a speech last week o...

Outer Limits card from Datajunkie . Recent news about the discovery of species previously thought extinct can be found by clicking these lin...

From IOL.co.za : Scientists found fossilised depressions and footprints in Alaska's Denali National Park and Preserve in what is believe...

From LiveScience.com : Ismar de Souza Carvalho said that a dinosaur claw found in Brazil likely belonged to an unknown group of dinosaurs th...

Here's the link to Daeschler's 'interview' on The Colbert Report ; it's about halfway down the page so you'll have t...

'They don't want to hear this kind of stuff' Teachers in some northern Quebec communities say they are being told not to talk ab...