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Nov. 14, 1797 - Feb. 22, 1875 From Minnesota State University at Mankato comes this excellent bio on Lyell: Sir Charles Lyell attended Ox...

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Texacephale langstoni , a new genus of pachycephalosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the upper Campanian Aguja Formation, southern Texa...

Climate, Critters, and Cetaceans: Cenozoic Drivers of the Evolution of Modern Whales . 2010. F. G. Marx & M. D. Uhen. Science 327: 993-9...

Reptilicus ( 1961 ), has been described as the “ Plan 9 from Outer Space ” of giant monster movies and really has to be seen to be believed...

100-Million-Year Dynasty of Giant Planktivorous Bony Fishes in the Mesozoic Seas . 2010. M. Friedman, et al. Science 327: 990-993. Abstract:...

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

Hedin (Feb. 19,1865 - Nov. 26, 1952) was a Swedish explorer and geographer , born in Stockholm, who led four multi-year expeditions into Cen...

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

Two nearly complete skeletons of the new tyrannosauroid species, Bistahieversor sealeyi were discovered in the badlands of New Mexico's...

“ When a man is wrestling a leopard in the middle of a pond, he's in no position to run .” Cary Grant as paleontologist David Huxley Com...

“The Triceracopter is half Triceratops , half helicopter. Built as a sculpture in 1977 by artist Patricia Renick, it's now available now...

Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart (Jan. 14, 1801 - Feb. 18, 1876) was a French botanist whose classification of fossil plants drew surprisingly ac...

Today only, Indiana University Press is having a 60% off sale on all stock, including books yet to be published. The Horned Dinosaur volu...

Arthropod relationships revealed by phylogenomic analysis of nuclear protein-coding sequences . 2010. J.C. C. Regier, et al. Nature, publish...

Although Sandra Shaw (May 27, 1913 – Feb. 16, 2000) had a short film career comprising a few, mostly uncredited film roles in 1933, her mos...

image Haeckel (Feb, 16, 1834 - Aug. 9, 1919) was a German zoologist and evolutionist who was a strong proponent of Darwinism and proposed ne...

Feb. 16, 1783 - Jan. 15, 1875 d'Halloy was a Belgian geologist who was an early proponent of evolution and was acknowledged by Charles D...

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