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Machaeridians are Palaeozoic armoured annelids . 2007. Jakob Vinther et al. Nature 451: 185-188. From the press release : The new fossil is ...

click to enlarge Paul Gilligan has a new blog for his 'Pooch Cafe' strip. Poncho's new year's resolutions oddly overlap so...

Isotopic Evidence for Glaciation During the Cretaceous Supergreenhouse . 2007. André Bornemann et al., Science 319: 189-192. Abstract: The T...

Every once in a while my friend Lisa will send me some photos from her travels. She was recently out to Drumheller with her kids to visit t...

Barry White presents the Dinosaur Park Formation . Oh yeah.

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

OK, I'm back. Things will return to normal over the next few days while I get caught up. To ease our way back into things, here's a...

Jan 9, 1870 – March 20, 1946. From Today In Science History : Grabau was an American geologist and paleontologist, known for his work on wor...

Jan. 8, 1823 – Nov. 7, 1913 From Today In Science History : Wallace was a British naturalist and biogeographer. He was the first westerner ...

Jan. 6, 1906 - Jan. 19 2000. From the U Calif., Berkeley : Along with Dobzhansky (1900 - 1975), animal systematist Ernst Mayr , and paleont...

National Geographic has posted their " Top 10 Fossil Finds of 2007 ". I have no idea how they come up with these. I did chuckle ...

The Royal Ontario Museum recently reopened their revamped dinosaur halls. Curator David Evans sent along some before and after shots of so...

Dec. 28, 1894 – Nov. 5, 1973 ”Romer was director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University until his retirement in 1961 an...

This comic is based on SECRETS OF LIFE, a 1956 feature-length film in WALT DISNEY'S TRUE-LIFE ADVENTURES Academy Award-winning series of...

Image from HERE . From Today In Science History : In 1831, Charles Darwin set sail from Plymouth harbour on his voyage of scientific discove...

Internal anatomy of the coelacanth, Latimeria chalumnae . From Today In Science History : In 1938, a coelacanth , a primitive fish thought ...

Time for a few quick updates where we shovel the city of Ottawa out of its latest snowstorm. I don't think I've posted any photos fr...

CMNH Ace photographer, Liz Russell, photographs the U of A Centrosaurus skull that I'm having prepped. Katie Russell and David Chapman ...