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Readers of a certain vintage will have fond memories of the Turok, Son of Son series from Dell Comics. Apparently Turok and Andar actually ...

image The deadline for abstracts, and early discounted registration is March 1st for the Frenchman Formation Terrestrial Ecosystem Conferenc...

COOL! Jack Horner has a new book coming out shortly in which he lays out his plan to resurrect a dinosaur. Wired magazine has a Q&A with...

Early Hominin Foot Morphology Based on 1.5-Million-Year-Old Footprints from Ileret, Kenya . 2009. M. R. Bennett, et al. Science 323. no. 591...

A new long-necked ‘sauropod-mimic’ stegosaur and the evolution of the plated dinosaurs . 2009. O. Mateus, et al.Proc. Royal. Soc. B. publish...

Devonian arthrodire embryos and the origin of internal fertilization in vertebrates . 2009. J. Long, et al. Nature 457: 1124-1127. A fossil ...

On this day in 1871 , Charles Darwin's book " Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex " was published in London.

Diversity patterns amongst herbivorous dinosaurs and plants during the Cretaceous: implications for hypotheses of dinosaur/angiosperm co-evo...

Click to enlarge I haven’t linked to Steve Bissette’s blog in a while, but this recent posting by Steve made me sit up and take notice. Her...

A hierarchical model for evolution of 23S ribosomal RNA . 2009. K.Bokov and S. V. Steinberg. Nature 457: 977-980. OMAC© DC Comics Scientists...

On this day in 1967 special effects wizard Ray Harryhausen teamed with director Don Chaffey and Raquel Welch to release this classic . Well...

Reptilicus ( 1961 ), has been described as the “ Plan 9 from Outer Space ” of giant monster movies and really has to be seen to be believed...

Respiratory Evolution Facilitated the Origin of Pterosaur Flight and Aerial Gigantism . 2009. Claessens, L., et al. PLoS ONE 4(2): e4497. St...

Feb. 19, 1871 – Sept. 24, 1930 Matthew was a superb mammalian paleontologist and important biogeographic theorist , and also G. G. Simpson...

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

“ When a man is wrestling a leopard in the middle of a pond, he's in no position to run .” Cary Grant as paleontologist David Huxley Com...

#2, Archaeopteryx Nation Geographic picks their top 7 “missing links” discovered since Darwin published The Origin of The Species .

image Quoting from Nature News : The 3.2-million-year-old bones of 'Lucy', the skeleton of the Australopithecus afarensis hominin d...

Feb. 12, 1809 – April 19, 1882 Find out what's going on in your city to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth HE...

Feb. 12, 1873 – Feb. 5, 1963 Photo © AMNH From the AMNH bio : The greatest dinosaur hunter of the twentieth century was Barnum Brown , who b...