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Monday, April 27, 2009

Opened This Day: AMNH

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image From Today In Scince History : On this day in 1871, the American Museum of Natural History opened to the public in New York City. The ...
Sunday, April 26, 2009

Premiered This Day: The Creature Walks Among Us

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Back on this day in 1956 the second sequel to The Creature From the Black Lagoon debuted. It's long been considered the weakest film i...

Kirby & Ditko's Goliath

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Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko team up on an early '60's monster story , complete with a dinosaur cameo so's that I can plug it here...

Goseong Dino Expo, Part 2

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More photos from the giant dino expo in Korea. In addition to dozens of life-sized and over-sized dino models there were a series of themed ...
Thursday, April 23, 2009

Puijila darwini: Fossil Seal With Legs

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A semi-aquatic Arctic mammalian carnivore from the Miocene epoch and origin of Pinnipedia . 2009. N. Rybczynski, et al., Nature 458: 1021-10...
Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Goseong Dinosaur Expo, Korea

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Goseong province on the south coast hosts a giant dinosaur expo every three years. During this time an immense park is turned into a dinosau...
Monday, April 20, 2009

Getting a Leg Up On the Tetrapod Land-Water Transition

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Contrasting Developmental Trajectories in the Earliest Known Tetrapod Forelimbs . 2009. V. Callier et al. Science 324: 364 – 367. Click HERE...

Born This Day: Willi Henning

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April 20, 1913 – Nov. 5, 1976 From the Willi Hennig Society : Hennig is best known for developing phylogenetic systematics , a coherent theo...

Born This Day: Sir William Logan

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April 20, 1798 – June 22, 1875 From Today in Science History : Logan was a Canadian geologist dubbed the "Father of Canadian Geology....
Sunday, April 19, 2009

Died This Day: Charles Darwin

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Feb. 12, 1809 – April 19, 1882 stamp More about Darwin HERE .

Died This Day: Louis Dollo

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Dec. 7, 1857 – April 19, 1931 From Today In Science History : Louis Antoine Marie Joseph Dollo was a French vertebrate paleontologist who st...
Saturday, April 18, 2009

Goseong Dinosaur Symposium & Expo in Korea

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Last week I was at the Goseong International Dinosaur Symposium and Expo in Korea. Our host, Dr. Yuong Nam Lee, and the mayor of Geosong put...
Friday, April 17, 2009

Origin of the Earliest Vascular Land Plants

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Origin and Radiation of the Earliest Vascular Land Plants . 2009. P. Steemans, et al. Science 324: 353. Sporr © Marvel Comics Abstract: Colo...
Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Dino Exploration in the Bonnet Plume Fm, Yukon

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Last summer, Dr. David Evans from the ROM/U of Toronto, took a crew to the Yukon to investigate reports of dinosaur bones from the Bonnet Pl...

Hermit Arthropods 500 Million Years Ago?

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Hermit arthropods 500 million years ago? . 2009. J. W. Hagadorn and A. Seilacher. Geology 37: 295-298 IMAGE Abstract: Cambrian intertidal sa...

Study Confirms 3 Neanderthal Sub-Groups

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Genetic Evidence of Geographical Groups among Neanderthals . 2009. Fabre V., et al. PLoS ONE 4(4): e5151. Devil Dinosaur © Marvel Comics The...
Tuesday, April 07, 2009

Born This Day: Kenneth (Page) Oakley

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April 7, 1911 - November 2, 1981 From Today in Science History : Oakley was an English physical anthropologist , geologist, and paleontologi...
Monday, April 06, 2009

Born This Day: James Watson

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From Today In Science History : Watson was born on this day in 1928. An American geneticist and biophysicist, he shared the 1962 Nobel Prize...

Created This Day: The AMNH

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In 1869, the American Museum of Natural History in New York City was officially created with the signing of a bill by the Governor of New ...
Sunday, April 05, 2009

Brain Boy Vs. Tyrannosaurus mentalis!

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I've linked to some odds things through this blog , but never something as quite "out there" as this story posted over at Atom...
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