PALAEOBLOG

On this day in 1925 Raymond Dart announced the find of the “Taung child”, Australopithecus africanus , in The Star newspaper of Johannesbur...

Another Sunday funny book story from the Atomic Surgery !

Evidence for cranial endothermy in the opah ( Lampris guttatus ) . 2009. R. M. Runcie, et al. J. Expt. Bio. 212: 461-470. image For every pa...

The discovery of a tropical, freshwater, Asian turtle in the Canadian high arctic suggests that animals migrated from Asia to North America ...

Author and cartoonist, Mark Schultz (below), was interviewed on NPR’s All things Considered last Friday discussing his new book, Stuff of L...

Evidence of Combat in Triceratops . 2009. A. A. Farke, et al. PLoS ONE 4(1): e4252. An open access article. Click the link to download the P...

The Modified Gap Excess Ratio (GER*) and the Stratigraphic Congruence of Dinosaur Phylogenies . 2009. M. Wills, et al. Sys. Bio. 57: 891 - 9...

Hotspots of Biased Nucleotide Substitutions in Human Genes . 2009. J. Berglund, et al. PLOS 7(1): e1000026. Why have some of our genes evolv...

Discovery of Lignin in Seaweed Reveals Convergent Evolution of Cell-Wall Architecture . 2009. P. T. Martone, et al. Current Biology 19: 169-...

Jan. 28, 1858-Dec. 16, 1940 Eugene Dubois joined the Dutch Army as a medical officer, and used spare time from his medical duties to search ...

March 22, 1785 - January 27, 1873 From Today In Science History : Sedgwich was an English geologist who first applied the name Cambrian to ...

Wildfire responses to abrupt climate change in North America . 2009. J.R. Marlon, et al. PNAS, early edition. Devil Dinosaur © Marvel Comics...

Jan. 26, 1884 – March 11, 1960. Photo from Parade of Life Through The Ages , by Charles Knight, Nat. Geo., Feb. 1942. From the American Muse...

The good doctors over at the Atomic Surgery have uncovered the truth about the extinction of the dinosaurs ( except birds of course! ), and...

Jan.25, 1900–Dec. 18, 1975 Dobzhansky is noted for being one of the architects of the modern Synthetic Theory of evolution. During the firs...

“2 Billion Years in the Making!” Produced and directed by Irwin Allen, whose long career included such TV hits as Lost In Space and Voyage ...

Size, shape, and asymmetry in fossil hominins: The status of the LB1 cranium based on 3D morphometric analyses . 2008. K.L. Baab and K.P. M...

From the Latin American Herald Tribune : Mexican authorities revealed that they recovered 389 fossils, among which are the remains of dinosa...

image: JRDI Things don't look so good for Nat Murphy. Read The New York Times article HERE

A sphenodontine (Rhynchocephalia) from the Miocene of New Zealand and palaeobiogeography of the tuatara ( Sphenodon ) . 2009. M. Jones et al...