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A Halloween treat! Two Frankenstein stories by Dick Briefer over at the Atomic Surgrey .

A Late Archean Sulfidic Sea Stimulated by Early Oxidative Weathering of the Continents . 2009. C. T. Reinhard, et a;. Science 326: 713-716. ...

Marsh (center) Oct. 29, 1831 - March 18, 1899 From Today In Science History : Marsh was an American paleontologist who discovered and descr...

Charles Darwin and the Origin of Life . 2009. J. Pereto, et al. Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres 39(5): 395-406. (This is an open...

Feb. 19, 1792 - Oct. 22, 1871 Murchison was a Scottish geologist who first differentiated the Silurian strata in the geologic sequence of E...

Oldest Evidence of Toolmaking Hominins in a Grassland - Dominated Ecosystem . 2009. Plummer, T.W., et al. PLoS ONE 4(9): e7199. Scientists ...

Natural selection in a contemporary human population. 2009. Byars, S., et al. Proc.s Nat. Acad. Sci., published online in the October 19. S...

Hypothesis for the role of toxin-producing algae in Phanerozoic mass extinctions based on evidence from the geologic record and modern envir...

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Julie starred as Kay Lawrence in The Creature From The Black Lagoon (1954). Adams has had a long career in films and TV, recently appearing...

"An Animated Approach to Dinosaur Locomotion" Dr. Stephen Gatesy Fri, Oct 16, 2009, 7:30 pm For the last 15 years, Dr. Stephen Gat...

A mysterious basin off the coast of India could be the largest, multi-ringed impact crater the world has ever seen. And if a new study is ri...

Buy the issue here In last January's Video Watchdog, Mark F. Berry interviewed the last surviving member of the original KING KONG '...

Evidence for modular evolution in a long-tailed pterosaur with a pterodactyloid skull . 2009. Junchang Lü, et al. Prod. Royal Soc. B., publi...

image In 1827, Charles Darwin was accepted into Christ's College at Cambridge, but did not start until winter term because he needed to ...

image Written by Robert T. Shannon and directed by Bernhard, this ridiculaous little film features some of the worst ‘man dressed up as a T....

Jack Arnold (Oct. 14, 1916 - March 17, 1992) directed a number of classic SF films including The Creature From the Black Lagoon , Revenge of...

Sauropod dinosaurs evolved moderately sized genomes unrelated to body size . 2009. C. Organ, et al. Proc. Royal. Soc. B. published online be...

The Cleveland Museum of Natural History is pleased to announce the opening of Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries , running until J...

The first well-preserved Early Cretaceous brachiosaurid dinosaur in Asia . 2009. H.-L. You and D.-Q Li. Proc. R. Soc. B 276: 4077-4082. Abst...