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In the Afar desert of Northern Ethiopia the African and Arabian continental plates meet and are tearing the landscape apart. From the press ...

In 1868, Charles Darwin's book, Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication , was published. He was 58. It is probably the secon...

From YouTube comes the classic Volkswagon commerical starring the 'original' King Kong : If you prefer to celebrate NGSD with Elvis ...

From the press release : After the skeletal remains of an 18,000-year-old, Hobbit-sized human were discovered on the Indonesian island of Fl...

Art © Dan M c Carthy Dan M c Carthy has a couple of new prints up for sale . Unfortunately “The Biography of a Carbon Atom” is sold out. Th...

From the NY Sun : The American Museum of Natural History has created America's first doctoral program at a museum. Dr. John Flynn, a lea...

Eugene Dubois (Jan. 28, 1858 - Dec. 16, 1940) joined the Dutch Army as a medical officer, and used spare time from his medical duties to sea...

Liberty Meadows © Frank Cho

Rare helical spheroidal fossils from the Doushantuo Lagerstätte: Ediacaran animal embryos come of age? 2007. Shuhai Xiao et al. Geology 35:...

Art © William Stout I recently came across this new image by our old friend Bill Stout . It’s always good to see more of Bill’s dinos but I’...

In honour of R.C. Andrews ' birthday, here’s a video clip of the Korean International Dinosaur Expedition in Mongolia (KID) team pullin...

Jan. 26, 1884 – March 11, 1960. Photo from Charles Knight’s article, “Parade of Life Through The Ages”, National Geographic, Feb. 1942. F...

Biplane wing planform and flight performance of the feathered dinosaur Microraptor gui . 2007. S. Chatterjee and R. J. Templin. PNAS. Advanc...

Jan.25, 1900–Dec. 18, 1975 Dobzhansky is noted for being one of the architects of the modern Synthetic Theory of evolution. During the firs...

An arid-adapted middle Pleistocene vertebrate fauna from south-central Australia . 2007. G. J. Prideaux et al. Nature 445: 422-425. An anci...

From National Geographic News : “A frilled shark swims at Japan's Awashima Marine Park on Sunday, January 21, 2007. Sightings of living ...

A distinctive new cloud-forest rodent (Hystriocognathi: Echimyidae) from the Manu Biosphere Reserve, Peru. 2007. B.D. PATTERSON and P.M. VEL...

New Paleocene skeletons and the relationship of plesiadapiforms to crown-clade primates .2007. J. I. Bloch et al. PNAS 104: 1159-1164. The o...

Scientists no longer have to date the rocks that a fossil is found in to determine its age—new techniques allow for direct determination of ...

Some photos I took over Xmas of the new Canadian Museum of Nature Dinosaur Halls: Chasmosaurus irvinenesis squares off against a pack of Da...