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The inner inner core of the Earth: Texturing of iron crystals from three-dimensional seismic anisotropy. 2008. X. Sun and X. Song. Earth an...

From Today In Science History : On this day in 1797, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) presented a paper on Megalonyx to the American Philosophi...

Ancient bat god from Egypt. From National Geographic : Six new species of ancient bat dating back 35 million years have been discovered in E...

From Today in Science History : Mary Anning (May, 21 1799 - March 9, 1847) English fossil collector who made her first significant discove...

The latest issue of New Scientist (March 1-7,2008) on the newsstands has a cover article by Don Prothero on “what is a missing link”, and g...

From Today in Science History : Miller (b.1930) is an American chemist who made a series of famous experiments beginning in 1953, to deter...

Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life . 2008. C. W. Dunn et al. Nature, early on-line publication. From...

The oldest North American primate and mammalian biogeography during the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum . 2008. K. C. Beard. PNAS, publishe...

The movie King Kong was one of the most successful films released in 1933. It went on to inspire many young fans (both in its initial relea...

A tip of the fedora to the late, great Willis O'Brien who breathed life into the fur and armature that become King Kong, the Seventh Wo...

Rapid molecular evolution in a living fossil . 2008. J. M. Hay et al. Trends in Genetics 24: 106-109. From the press release : In a study of...

The early evolution of feathers: fossil evidence from Cretaceous amber of France . 2008. Vincent Perrichot et al. Proceedings of the Royal S...

"Imagine the story of creation shown thru the cold lens of Science, and evolution told as a biblical tale. It’s a head-spinningly compl...

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

August 22, 1893 – February 28, 1973 Or at least the actor, Cecil Kellaway, who played him in “The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms” passed away thi...

Pulsed oxidation and biological evolution in the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation. 2008. K. A. McFadden et al. PNAS 105: 3197-3202 (the artic...

Microbially influenced formation of 2,724- million- year-old stromatolites . 2008. K. Lepot et al. Nature Geoscience 1: 118-121 image Abstra...

The subglacial origin of the Lake Agassiz–Ojibway final outburst flood . 2008. P. Lajeunesse and G. St-Onge. Nature Geoscience, published on...

Click to Enlarge (a bit) Today's rerun of an old Frank Cho Liberty Meadows strip.

Photo courtesy Jeffrey D. Stilwell From National Geographic News : The oldest known bird fossils from New Zealand were recently unearthed al...