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21 Dec. 21, 1890 – April 5, 1967 Click To Enlarge The father of radiation genetics , Muller began his career with T.H. Morgan studying mutat...

image From Today in Science History : In 1753, the British Museum was founded by an Act of Parliament . Since then, the museum has been col...

April 5, 1838 - January 15, 1902 From Today in Science History : U.S. zoologist and paleontologist who studied invertebrate fossil records,...

One of the questions that I’m most frequently asked is what the plants were like during the age of the dinosaurs. This book will go a long ...

Did the Ancient Crenarchael Viruses from the Dawn of Life Survive Exceptionally Well the Eons of Meteorite Bombardment? . 2009. M. Jalasvuo...

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Ecomorphological selectivity among marine teleost fishes during the end-Cretaceous extinctionz . 2009. M. Friedman. PNAS, Published online b...

Late Permian Changes in Conditions of the Atmosphere and Enviroments Caused by Halogenated Gases . 2009. L. Weissflog, et al. Dokladi Earth...

Gorgo premiered on this day in 1961. Directed by Eugène Lourié from a script by John Loring and Daniel Hyat, it featured a man in a rubber...

Paleonauts © Mark Schultz For a couple of years now Mark Schultz has kicked around the idea of contributing a weekly comic strip to the Pala...

The oldest articulated osteichthyan reveals mosaic gnathostome characters . 2009. M. Zhu, et al. Nature 458: 469-474. Illo by B. Choo Abstra...

June 3, 1726 – March 26, 1797 Hutton is the 'Father of Uniformitarianism' which explains the features of the Earth's crust by m...

If you’re in the Cleveland area tomorrow (Weds.), I’m giving a talk on my work in Mongolia at 7pm at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History...

Shared developmental mechanisms pattern the vertebrate gill arch and paired fin skeletons . 2009. J. A. Gillis, et al. PNAS, published onlin...

Over at his VonShollyWood blog, out pal Pete has a bunch of his great unused art from some big dinosaur movie from some years ago. Pete do...

Atomic Surgery presents a wacky tale from The War That Time Forgot – “Medal For A Dinosaur.” Featuring “Baby Dino!” You must go read it H...

Liberty Meadows © Frank Cho

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

The evolution of the lepidosaurian lower temporal bar: new perspectives from the Late Cretaceous of South China . 2009. Jin-You Mo, et al. J...

The Burgess Shale Anomalocaridid Hurdia and Its Significance for Early Euarthropod Evolution . 2009. A. C. Daley, et al. Science 323: 1597 –...