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A Single IGF1 Allele Is a Major Determinant of Small Size in Dogs . 2007. N.B. Sutter, et al. Science 316: 112-115. Scientists have identif...

I missed the fact that Knut Schmidt-Nielsen passed away a few months ago. Every zoologist working today owes him a great debt, and as unde...

April 7, 1911 - November 2, 1981 From Today in Science History : Oakley was an English physical anthropologist , geologist, and paleontologi...

From Today In Science History : Watson was born on this day in 1928. An American geneticist and biophysicist, he shared the 1962 Nobel Prize...

In 1869, the American Museum of Natural History in New York City was officially created with the signing of a bill by the Governor of New ...

David successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation yesterday at the University of Toronto. Things will slow down at the blog for the Easter ...

Hagfish embryology with reference to the evolution of the neural crest . 2007. K.G. Ota, et al. Nature 446: 672-675. Abstract: Hagfish, whic...

Geomagnetic field strength 3.2 billion years ago recorded by single silicate crystals . 2007. JA Tarduno, et al. Nature 446: 657-660. From t...

Doushantuo embryos preserved inside diapause egg cysts . 2007. L. Yin, et al. Nature 446: 661-663. Abstract: Phosphatized microfossils in th...

April 3, 1896 - May 28, 1990 From the always excellent Today in Science History : English geologist who was a leading authority on the mecha...

Survey sequencing and comparative analysis of the elephant shark ( Callorhinchus milii ) genome . 2007. B. Venkatesh, et al. PLoS Biol 5(4):...

The Discovery And Mystery of a Dinosaur Named Jane by Judith Williams. A plug for my friend Judy’s new book on ‘Jane’ the tyrannosaur. Wr...

Art © Steve Hickman One more Kong cartoon via our friends at Atomic Surgery .

Photos © M. Ryan While I was in Calgary recently I stopped into the Chinook Mall on the south side to photograph this T. rex made out of ju...

© Larry Gonick Reader Sarda Sahney has a fun blog called FISH FEET that is worth visiting. Apparently Sarda is presently on a mysterious t...

Floral Gigantism in Rafflesiaceae . 2007. C. C. Davis, et al. Science 315: 1812 link Abstract: Species of Rafflesiaceae possess the world...

All photos © Kipling West While I was in Calgary last week I had the pleasure of meeting up with two of the 7 Deadly Sinners , Tom Bagley a...

In 1759, Italian geologist Giovanni Arduino (1714-1795) dated a letter to Professor A.Vallisneri the younger, in which Arduino proposed a c...

From BBC News : Peter Dodson & Steve Wang created a computer model that came up with an astonishing prediction-- it estimated that the m...

The delayed rise of present-day mammals . 2007. O. R. P. Bininda-Emonds, et al. Nature 446: 507-512. Abstract: Did the end-Cretaceous mass ...