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Lysenko (Sept. 29, 1898 – Nov. 20, 1976) was a Soviet biologist and agronomist who not only believed the Mendelian theory of heredity to be ...

Again with the Life Ray! A fun story illustrated by Mort Meskin over at Atomic Surgery .

Image from here Beswick played Nupondi in One Million Years B.C. and also starred in Prehistoric Women , in addition to many roles on TV.

Victoria turns 65 today. She had a career doing bit parts in 1960’s TV including Batman and Star Trek (Isis the cat) , before becoming pla...

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

New Horned Dinosaurs from Utah Provide Evidence for Intracontinental Dinosaur Endemism . 2010. S. Sampson, et al. PLoS One 5(9): e12292. Two...

A bizarre, humped Carcharodontosauria (Theropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain . 2010. F. Ortega, et al. Nature 467: 203-206. CLICK TO...

If you've got a lot of spare cash burning a hole in your pocket, you could pick up this model from Sideshow Collectables .

Tyrannosaur Paleobiology: New Research on Ancient Exemplar Organisms . 2010. S. L. Brusatte, et al. Science 329: 1481-1485. Tyrant © & ™...

In 1835, British naturalist Charles Darwin aboard the ship HMS Beagle,arrived at the Galapagos archipelago , a cluster of islands on the equ...

A new troodontid theropod from the Late Cretaceous of central China, and the radiation of Asian troodontids . 2010. Lü, J.−C., et al. Acta P...

Winsor McCay (Sept. 26, 1987 – July 26, 1934) was one of the great American artists of the last century. He is best known for his newspaper...

Atomic Surgery presents a great tale by Wally Wood.

image Sept. 10, 1941 - May 20. 2002 Here’s a nice piece on Gould by Henry Lowood from the Stanford Presidential Lectures in the Humanities ...

Sept. 9, 1823 - April 30, 1891 From The Academy of Natural Sciences : Leidy is known as the "Father of American Vertebrate Paleontology...

Painting by Dan Erickson of the Phaeton Group William Lonsdale (Sept. 9, 1794 – Nov. 11, 1891 ) was an English geologist and paleontologist ...

Buffon (Sept. 7, 1707 – April 16, 1788) was a French naturalist, who formulated a crude theory of evolution and was the first to suggest tha...

"Just as our planet's organisms have begun dying off, the scientists who classify them have also begun to decline, and this could h...

The cinema's definitive cave woman!

Profiling by Image Registration Reveals Common Origin of Annelid Mushroom Bodies and Vertebrate Pallium . 2010. R. Tomer, et al. Cell 142: 8...