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Coming this summer from Flesk Publications is Mark Schultz’s Various Drawings Volume 4 . It includes his best work from over the last two ye...

Work and other issues are forcing me to take a hopefully not-to-long break from the blog. When I return I should be giving updates from the ...

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A Functional Role for Transposases in a Large Eukaryotic Genome . 2009. Nawacki, M., et al. Science 324: 935-938. Captain Victory © Jack Kir...

May 21, 1799 - March 9, 1847 From Today in Science History : Mary was an English fossil collector who made her first significant discovery ...

Sept. 10, 1941 - May 20. 2002 Here’s a nice piece on Gould by Henry Lowood from the Stanford Presidential Lectures in the Humanities and Ar...

A great photo from the CMNH archives of the move in 1957 to the museum’s present location. The woman driving the convertible is Gloria Motch...

Complete Primate Skeleton from the Middle Eocene of Messel in Germany: Morphology and Paleobiology . 2009. J. Franzen, et al. PloS One 4(5):...

On this day back in 1915, The Dinosaur and The Missing took its bow in US cinemas. It features the earliest work of a young Willis O'bri...

May 19, 1864 - Nov 17, 1926 Read his story over at Atomic Surgery The Hall of African Mammals at the American Museum of Natural History exi...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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

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...

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

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

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

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