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From Today In Science History : Wallace (Jan. 8, 1823 – Nov. 7, 1913) was a British naturalist and biogeographer. He was the first westerne...

Tetrapod trackways from the early Middle Devonian period of Poland . 2010. Nature 463: 43-48. Watch the video . Recent discoveries have sugg...

© S. R. Bissette Our old friend, Steve Bissette , has just started up a new web comic, " King of Monster Island ". Go check it out...

University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno and Gabrielle Lyon will accept Project Exploration’s Presidential Award for Excellence in S...

Dutton (May 15, 1841 - Jan. 4, 1912) was an American geologist who in 1887 was put in charge of the division of volcanic geology and seismo...

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The Rate and Molecular Spectrum of Spontaneous Mutations in Arabidopsis thaliana . 2009. S. Ossowski, et al. Science 327: 92–94. Adventure C...

Jan. 1, 1919 - July 5, 1948 Born Frances Lillian Mary Ridste, Carole quit school at 15 go into show business. She had bit parts until 1940 w...

From Ottawa Citizen has a nice long article on Elkanah Billings and his work on the Ediacaran fauna in Canada: "Only during this decad...

From The Sydney Morning Herald comes a report on the black market trade in fossils from China: Why the trade has grown so large is that Chi...

”Romer (Dec. 28, 1894 – Nov. 5, 1973) was director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University until his retirement in 1961 ...

From Today In Science History : In 1831, Charles Darwin set sail from Plymouth harbour on his voyage of scientific discovery aboard the HMS ...

The morphology and systematics of Mammalodon colliveri (Cetacea: Mysticeti), a toothed mysticete from the Oligocene of Australia . 2009. E....

The birdlike raptor Sinornithosaurus was venomous . 2009. E. Gong, et al. PNAS, Published online before print Dec. 14. image Sinornithosaur...

Internal anatomy of the coelacanth, Latimeria chalumnae . From Today In Science History : In 1938, a coelacanth , a primitive fish thought ...

image Tobey (Mar. 23, 1917 - Dec. 22, 2002) made a career of playing “take charge, men of authority”, such as Capt. Hendry in Howard Hawkes,...

With the fantastic success of “ King Kong ”, RKO tried to cash in by rushing this sequel into production and release within the same year (...

From the ever eloquent Today In Science History : Wright (Dec. 21, 1889 – March 3, 1988) was an American geneticist who was one of the found...

Ancient DNA reveals late survival of mammoth and horse in interior Alaska . 2009. J. Halle, et al., PNAS, published online before print Dece...

From Today In Science History : Owen (July 20, 1804 – Dec. 18, 1892) was an English anatomist and paleontologist who is remembered for his c...