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Louis and Mary Leakey From Today In Science History : Leakey (Aug 7, 1903 – October 1, 1972), an archaeologist and anthropologist, was born ...

A wonderful new strip by Bob Weber and Jay Stephens called Oh, Brother! has just started up

In 1769, The La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California were first noticed by a Spanish expedition. Juan Crespi, a Franciscan friar with th...

Richard Dixon Oldham (July 31, 1858 – July 15, 1936) was an Irish geologist and seismologist who discovered evidence for the existence of th...

Fossil evidence on evolution of inner ear cochlea in Jurassic mammals . 2010. Zhe-Xi Luo, et al. Proc. Of the Royal Soc. B. Published online...

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On yet another rainy day we drove to Eastend, SK, to check out the T. rex Discovery Centre. Kentaro Chiba from Hokkido U. continued collecti...

Image and a nice overview of her work on DNA Rosalind Franklin (July 25, 1920 - Apr. 16, 1958) was an English scientist who contributed to t...

From Today In Science History : Mendel (July 22, 1822 – Jan. 6, 1884) was an Austrian pioneer in the study of heredity. He spent his adult ...

I'm back in the field with David Evans from the ROM, hence the lack of posts for the past few weeks. Here are few recent photos: Reopeni...

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...