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From Pete Von Sholly's Extremely Weird Tales . CLICK TO ENLARGE I'm off to the field for most of the July and August. I'll post...

Detection of Late Cretaceous eustatic signatures using quantitative biostratigraphy . 2006. J. S. Crampton et al. GSA Bulletin 118: 975–990....

Silk Genes Support the Single Origin of Orb Webs . 2006. J. E. Garb, et al. Science 312: 1762. New evidence indicates that the orb web commo...

A lamprey from the Cretaceous Jehol biota of China . 2006. M.-m. Chang et al. Nature 441: 972-974 Abstract: Widespread nowadays in freshwat...

The world's leading scientists Wednesday urged schools to stop denying the facts of evolution amid controversy over the teaching of crea...

Our buddy Tom Bagley has a nice post up over at 7 Deadly Sinners on just a few of the seemingly hundreds of bad dinosaur sculptures that p...

Thanks to everyone who wrote in with info on ‘Tinker’, esp. Dan, Ed, and Toni! Ed tells me that Tinker used to have a website, kidrex.com , ...

The origin of mean arterial and jugular venous blood pressures in giraffes . 2006. G. Mitchell et al. Journal of Experimental Biology 209: 2...

From the Grand Forks Herald : The remains of a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex unearthed from northwest South Dakota in 1998 eventually could be...

“ In 1957, an expedition led by Commander Allen Roberts (Jock Mahoney), and including reporter Margaret Hathaway (Shawn Smith) and Lt. Jack...

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Bob Bakker calls in the experts to consult on details of the new pachycephalosaur, Dracorex hogwartsia , at a recent event at the Houston Mu...

A Nearly Modern Amphibious Bird from the Early Cretaceous of Northwestern China 2006. Hai-lu You et al. Science 312: 1640 – 1643. Image cou...

‘Peace’ by Steff Geissbuhler (1985) The image encourages reconciliation between two "giant" nations, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. , s...

Speciation by hybridization in Heliconius butterflies . 2006. J. Mavárez et al. Nature 441: 868-871. Heliconius heurippa , hybrid species ...

The origin of modern crocodyliforms: new evidence from the Cretaceous of Australia . 2006. S.W. Salisbury et al. Proceedings of the Royal So...

Since people have been asking me what I'll be up to when I'm in southern Alberta later this summer I thought I'd post a couple p...

The first images of a live specimen of a small, furry animal once believed to have gone extinct more than 11 million years ago have been cap...

From National Geographic news : A new species of hammerhead shark has been discovered off the coast of South Carolina. The newfound shark ...

From U Michigan : Jianzhi Zhang presents evidence an example of parallel evolution in a gene for an enzyme that helps leaf-eating monkeys di...