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Common Avian Infection Plagued the Tyrant Dinosaurs . 2009. E.D.S. Wolff, et al. PLoS One PLoS ONE 4(9): e7288. A new study pins the demise ...

image “The B.C. Paleontological Association has pulled out of an agreement signed last year with government to protect a renowned fossil bed...

Another great, goofy sci-fi dinosaur story for a Sunday afternoon from the early days of DC Comics care of Atomic Surgery .

Evolution of weaponry in female bovids . 2009. T. Stankowich and T. Caro. PRSB, Published online before print September 16, 2009. saiga Abst...

Today's reprint of Liberty Meadows by Frank Cho.

Relationships of Cetacea (Artiodactyla) Among Mammals: Increased Taxon Sampling Alters Interpretations of Key Fossils and Character Evolutio...

Sept. 26, 1987 – July 26, 1934 McCay was one of the great American artists of the last century. He is best known for his newspaper comic st...

Victoria turns 65 today. She had a career doing bit parts in 1960’s TV including Batman and Star Trek (Isis the cat) , before becoming pla...

Assessing the root of bilaterian animals with scalable phylogenomic methods . 2009. A. Hejnol, et al. Proc. Royal Soc. B. Published online b...

Now this is news! A pre- Archaeopteryx troodondid theropod from China with long feathers on its metatarsus . 2009. Dongyu Hu, et al. Nature...

.. A few weeks ago I linked to this video by They Might Be Giants . Their new cd,& DVD of kid-friendly songs about science, Here Comes ...

Gordon was a movie producer of low, low budget films known for having great posters that sold the film. These films were fodder for many ep...

Doom Patrol © DC Comics Controversy over when exactly the Quaternary Period began has raged for decades, with attempts in 1948 and 1983 to d...

I missed this posting over at Atomic Surgery about the legendary SF artist Richard Powers illustrating King Kong.

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

For those of you who missed the conference, The Royal Saskatchewan Museum Contributions to Science No. 12, Frenchman Formation Terrestrial E...

Tyrannosaurid Skeletal Design First Evolved at Small Body Size . P.C.Sereno, et al., early online edition of Science, Sept. 17, 2009. Drawin...

Seed fertilization, development, and germination in Hydatellaceae (Nymphaeales): Implications for endosperm evolution in early angiosperms ....

All of the articles from The Anatomical Record (Volume 292 Issue 9 (Sept. 2009) Special Issue: Unearthing the Anatomy of Dinosaurs: New Ins...

Unfortunate news: “Samson”, the T. rex goes for auction in Vegas on Oct. 3, 2009. The sad details are here . When I came back from the gob...