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The Massospondylus embryos are in the news again thanks to a recent article in JVP . I blogged about the 2005 Science paper here . Read the...

Isotopic evidence of C4 grasses in southwestern Europe during the Early Oligocene–Middle Miocene . 2010. M.A. Urban, et al. Geology, First p...

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

Walt Disney’s epic film, Fantasia, opened this day on Broadway in New York City in 1940. The film featured Leopold Stokowski and the Philade...

Nov 13, 1913 – August 13, 1986 Helen starred as Helene Peterson in “ Son of Kong ”, the quickie follow up to “ King Kong ”. Once again Carl ...

Nov. 12, 1943 – April 29, 2008 Julie had the lead role as Nala in the 1971 Hammer film, “ Creatures The World Forgot ”.

Mantell (Feb. 3, 1790 – Nov. 10, 1852), a physician of Lewes in Sussex in southern England, had for years been collecting fossils in the san...

Balfour (Nov. 10, 1851 – July 19, 1882) was a British zoologist and a founder of modern embryology. Influenced by the work of Michael Foste...

Wallace (Jan. 8, 1823 – Nov. 7, 1913) was a British naturalist and biogeographer. He was the first westerner to describe some of the most i...

Osborn graduated (August 8, 1857 - November 6, 1935) from Princeton in 1877 and pursued his interest in the biological sciences and paleon...

”Romer (Dec. 28, 1894 – Nov. 5, 1973) was director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University until his retirement in 1961...

Haldane (Nov. 5, 1892 - Dec. 1, 1964) is best remembered along with E. B. Ford and R. A. Fisher one of the three major figures to develop th...

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...