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link From Today In Science History : In 1936, London's famed Crystal Palace, constructed for the International Exhibition of 1851, was d...

Extended Male Growth in a Fossil Hominin Species . 2007. Charles A. Lockwood, et al. Science 318: 1443 – 1446. Abstract: In primates that a...

Changes in the global carbon cycle occurred as two episodes during the Permian–Triassic crisis . 2007. Shuceng Xie et al. Geology 35:1083-10...

Subduction origin on early Earth: A hypothesis . 2007. Vicki L. Hansen Geology 35: 1059-1062. image How and when plate tectonics began has b...

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National Geographic News has an interesting article on trouble a-brewin' with China's new "peasant palaeontologists", ...

Feb 29, 1792 - Nov 28, 1876 Von Baer was a Prussian-Estonian embryologist who discovered the mammalian egg (1827) and the notochord. He ...

Nov. 28, 1854 – Jan. 29, 1934 Painting by Mary Parrish Scott was an English paleobotanist and leading authority of his time on the structur...

An unusual new neosauropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Hastings Beds Group of East Sussex, England . 2007. Taylor, Michael P. and Dar...

Student Aaron Phillips, foreground, collects samples from bone beds on what was the eastern shore of the Western Interior Seaway. After slow...

From The Dinosaur of the Day at Nature News.com: Eotriceratops xerinsularis was recently described in the Canadian Journal of Earth Scien...

Jan. 10 – Nov. 26, 1686 Steno (a.k.a. Niels Steensen, or Stensen) was a Danish geologist and anatomist who first made unprecedented discover...

Feb. 19,1865 - Nov. 26, 1952 Hedin was a Swedish explorer and geographer, born in Stockholm, who led four multi-year expeditions into Centra...

Liberty Meadows by Frank Cho An old Liberty Meadows strip by Frank Cho featuring an old friend…

image From Today In Science History : In 1859, The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection was published in England to great acclaim...

End-to-End Stacking and Liquid Crystal Condensation of 6– to 20–Base Pair DNA Duplexes . 2007. M. Nakata, et al. Science 318: 1276 – 1279. ...

Inconsistencies Between Pangean Reconstructions and Basic Climate Controls . 2007. C. M. Rowe, et al. Science 318: 1284 – 1286. Abstract: T...

Nov. 21, 1891 – April 5, 1970 The Fly © Archie Comics Sturtevant was an American geneticist who in 1913 developed a technique for mapping t...

Giant claw reveals the largest ever arthropod . 2007. S.J. Braddy, et al. Biology Letters, published on-line Nov. 20, 2007. From National Ge...

October 30, 1820 - November 20, 1899 Dawson was a Canadian geologist who made numerous contributions to paleobotany and extended the knowle...