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image May 28, 1807 - Dec. 14, 1873 (Jean) Louis (Rodolphe) Agassiz was a Swiss-born U.S. naturalist, geologist, and teacher who made revolut...

Phylogeny of the Beaked Whale Genus Mesoplodon (Ziphiidae: Cetacea) Revealed by Nuclear Introns: Implications for the Evolution of Male Tusk...

Dec. 12, 1731 – April 18, 1802. Erasmus was a prominent English physician, poet, philosopher, botanist, naturalist and the grandfather of na...

Life in a temperate Polar sea: a unique taphonomic window on the structure of a Late Cretaceous Arctic marine ecosystem . 2008. K. Chin et a...

The Palaeoblog loves giant squid stories . This one gives me a chance to plug Discovery Channel reporter Jennifer Viega's " Born ...

Our friend Pete Von Sholly has a new blog that you should check out frequently. I'm under the weather AND busy so postings will proba...

Why did life emerge? . 2008. A. & E. Annila. Journal of Astrobiology 7 : 293-300 Supernatural Thillers #1 © Marvel Comics. “It!” © Theod...

Feb. 6, 1913 – Dec. 9, 1996 From the Minnesota State University site : Mary Douglas Nicol Leakey was in London, England . She meet her futur...

image Forrest J Ackerman passed away on Dec. 4. Readers of a certain age will recognize his name. The rest of you should read this short art...

The Paranasal Air Sinuses of Predatory and Armored Dinosaurs (Archosauria: Theropoda and Ankylosauria) and Their Contribution to Cephalic St...

A new azhdarchoid pterosaur from the Crato Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Aptian?) of Brazil . 2008. M. P. Witton. Palaeontology 51: 1289-1300...

This is pretty cool. A few years ago Mark Schultz took on a big project – writing a graphic ‘novel’ about genetics that can be used as a 1st...

The Challenger at St. Paul's Rocks From Today In Science History : In 1872, the H.M.S. Challenger embarked from Portsmouth, England on t...

Dec. 7, 1857 – April 19, 1931 From Today In Science History Louis Antoine Marie Joseph Dollo was a French vertebrate paleontologist who stat...

Atomic Surgery presents a tale from 1959 illustrated by Steve Ditko.

The pectoral fin of Panderichthys and the origin of digits . 2008. C. A. Boisvert et al. Nature 456: 636-638. image Abstract: One of the ide...

Roger Ebert reviews Ben Stein and “Expelled” . Thanks to Lisa for the link! Palaeo news has been light and I've been busy so....

Mud-trapped herd captures evidence of distinctive dinosaur sociality. 2008. D. J. Varricchio, et al. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53 (4), 2...

Postcranial skeleton of multituberculate mammal Catopsbaatar . 2008. Jørn H. Hurum and Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska. Acta Palaeontologica Polonic...

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