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de Beer (Nov. 1, 1899 – June 21, 1972) was an English zoologist and morphologist who contributed to experimental embryology, anatomy, and ...

"Life is the most important thing about the world, the most important thing about life is evolution. Thus, by consciously seeking what ...

Ojoceratops fowleri , one of the largest known horned dinosaurs, was discovered in 2005 by Montana State University Ph.D. student Denver Fow...

Regulation of Body Temperature by Some Mesozoic Marine Reptiles . 2010. A. Bernard, et al. Science 328: 1379 – 1382. War That Time Forgot ...

From Today In Science History : Billings (May 5, 1820 - June 14, 1896) was a Canadian geologist and paleontologist, who was the first Canadi...

Directed by Eugène Lourié, this was Ray Harryhausen’s first solo film after having finished his apprenticeship with Willis O’Brien on Might...

Alvarez (June 13, 1911 - Sept. 1, 1988) was an American experimental physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1968 for work...

2010 marks the 100th anniversary of the first scow-based dinosaur-hunting expeditions in Alberta, Canada. These flat-bottomed boats were use...

Dr. David Evans is curating the new exhibit, " Dinosaur Eggs & Babies: Remarkable Fossils from South Africa ," running until J...

Paleontologist Ken Carpenter, a curator at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, takes over this month as director of the Prehistoric Mus...

High-temperature environments of human evolution in East Africa based on bond ordering in paleosol carbonates . 2010. B. Passey, et al. PNAS...

Ruth Rose (Jan. 16, 1896 - June 8, 1978 ) was the daughter of Edward E. Rose. In 1926 she meet (and later married) cinematographer Ernest Sc...

From Today In Science History : Crick (June 8, 1916 – July 28, 2004) was a British biophysicist, who, with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins,...

From Today In Science History: Conybeare (June 7, 1787 - August 12, 1857) was an English clergyman, geologist and paleontologist, known for...

Pete Von Sholly sent along the above cartoon a while back. He also has a new 'on-blog-only' dinosaur book (see below) up on his blog...

Hutton (June 3, 1726 - March 26, 1797) is considered to be the father of modern geology . He is accredited with proposing that observed geol...

From Today In Science History : Patterson (June 2, 1922 - December 5, 1995) was a U.S. geochemist who in 1953 made the first precise measur...

© Luis Rey It's been a busy week for ceratopsids. Here's a nice Luis Rey illustration for a new chasmosaur from the Judith River For...

© DC Comics A conceited big-game hunter gets transported to the past where he hunts a Styracosaurus with some aliens, and learns a valuable...

Ventilation of the deep Southern Ocean and deglacial CO2 rise . 2010. L.C. Skinner, et al. Science 328: 1147 - 1151. Scientists have found t...