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Structure of white rhinoceros ( Ceratotherium simum ) horn investigated by X-ray computed tomography and histology with implications for gro...

August 8, 1857 - November 6, 1935 Osborn graduated at Princeton in 1877 and pursued his interest in the biological sciences and paleontology...

Structure and function of hindlimb feathers in Archaeopteryx lithographica . 2006. Nick Longrich. Paleobiology 32: 417–431. Artistic renderi...

Comparative genome sequencing of Escherichia coli allows observation of bacterial evolution on a laboratory timescale . 2006. C. D. Herring ...

Another stamp sheet that I picked up in Ulaanbaatar. Click the image to enlarge.

Our old buddy and fellow U Calgary grad makes the news! Pat Druckenmiller, in the collection room of MSU's Museum of the Rockies, displa...

Atomic Surgery points out that www.emovieposter.com has a lot of dinosaur and related movie posters up for auction this week.

Wairarapa, New Zealand is set to lose a $30 million dinosaur theme park originally planned for the Martinborough countryside. Dinosaurs Roc...

Cephalic vascular anatomy in flamingos ( Phoenicopterus ruber ) based on novel vascular injection and computed tomographic imaging analyses ...

Deuterostome phylogeny reveals monophyletic chordates and the new phylum Xenoturbellida . 2006. Sarah J. Bourlat et al. Nature 444 85-88. Ge...

Do you recognize these characters? I do! The photos were taken by ReBecca Hunt who has a large assortment of pictures from the 2006 Soci...

A pig-sized, tusked creature that roamed the earth some 27 million years ago represents a missing link between the oldest known relatives of...

Evolutionary and Ecological Causes of the Latitudinal Diversity Gradient in Hylid Frogs: Treefrog Trees Unearth the Roots of High Tropical D...

A team of scientists has reconstructed the DNA sequence of a 5-million-year-old retrovirus and shown that it is able to produce infectious p...

Here are some Mongolian stamp sheets I picked up last summer. Click on each image to enlarge. Those are Triceratops ? Quite a wacky combina...

The bear that left a 3-foot-long claw mark in an Ice Age clay bank was the largest bear species ever to walk the Earth, about 6 feet tall at...

A trail of 13 fossilized footprints running through a valley in a desert in northern Mexico could be among the oldest in the Americas, Mexic...

Last Wednesday, David Chapman, the CMNH Casting Technician, and I drove up to Beamsville, Ontario to pick up the ‘Jane’ mount that Research ...

Our Wednesday started at 7:30am at the CMNH and David Chapman and I arrived back and unloaded the dinosaur about 9:30pm that evening. Aside...

The famous fossil of Lucy is scheduled to tour the United States, but one place it won't be on display is the Smithsonian's National...