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Darwinius masillae is a Haplorhine — Reply to Williams et al. (2010) . 2010. J. of Human Evolution 59: 574-579 A new investigation of the s...

Biogeographic and evolutionary implications of a diverse paleobiota in amber from the early Eocene of India . 2010. J. Rust, et al. PNAS, Pu...

Human remains from Zhirendong, South China, and modern human emergence in East Asia . 2010. W. Liu, et al. PNAS, Published online before pri...

Philip Currie was invested into the Alberta Order of Excellence in a ceremony in Edmonton on Wednesday, October 20. Congratulations on a wel...

Cannibalism in Tyrannosaurus rex . 2010. N. Longrich, et al. PLoS ONE 5(10): e13419 The marks are definitely the result of feeding, althoug...

Rafinesque (Oct 22, 1783 – Sept. 18, 1840) was a naturalist, traveler, and writer who made major and controversial contributions to botany a...

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

Single amino acid change alters the ability to specify male or female organ identity . 2010. C.A. Airoldi, et al. PNAS, published ahead of p...

image Written by Robert T. Shannon and directed by Bernhard, this ridiculaous little film features some of the worst ‘man dressed up as a T....

Dispersal and diversity in the earliest North American sauropodomorph dinosaurs, with a description of a new taxon . T. Rowe, et al. Proc. R...

From Hans-Dieter Sues at National Geographic News : Princeton geoscientist Adam Maloof holds a chunk of limestone from South Australia that ...

Welcome to the Xenozoic Age, a post-apocalyptic landscape where dinosaurs roam freely…and humanity is the endangered species! Coming in abou...

Jack Arnold (Oct. 14, 1916 - March 17, 1992) directed a number of classic SF films including The Creature From the Black Lagoon , Revenge of...

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...