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The Evolution of Maximum Body Size of Terrestrial Mammals . 2010. F.A. Smith, et al. Science 330: 1216-1219. Tales to Astonish © Marvel Co...

Von Baer (Feb 29, 1792 - Nov 28, 1876) was a Prussian-Estonian embryologist who discovered the mammalian egg (1827) and the notochord. He...

Carlson (April 29, 1912 – Nov. 24, 1977) starred as Dr. David Reid in the classic Creature From The Black Lagoon (1957). You know that he w...

image From Today In Science History : In 1859, The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection was published in England to great acclai...

New Basal Iguanodonts from the Cedar Mountain Formation of Utah and the Evolution of Thumb-Spiked Dinosaurs . 2010. A. MacDonald, et al. PLo...

Armstrong (Nov. 20, 1890 – April 20, 1973) took Fay Wray to Skull Island in 1933. He returned later the same year to find The Son of Kong, o...

Oldest known Varanus (Squamata: Varanidae) from the Upper Eocene and Lower Oligocene of Egypt: support for an African origin of the genus . ...

Dawson (Oct. 30, 1820 - Nov. 20, 1899>) was a Canadian geologist who made numerous contributions to paleobotany and extended the knowled...

image “Meanwhile, the light-skinned Noble Johnson (April 18, 1881 – Jan. 9, 1978) was heavily made up for his role as the village chief [in ...

On the Size and Flight Diversity of Giant Pterosaurs, the Use of Birds as Pterosaur Analogues and Comments on Pterosaur Flightlessness . 201...

The Ghost of Slumber Mountain was written and directed by special effects pioneer Willis O'Brien and produced by Herbert M. Dawley. Wh...

Julie starred as Kay Lawrence in The Creature From The Black Lagoon (1954). Adams has had a long career in films and TV, recently appearing...

The Tail of Tyrannosaurus : Reassessing the Size and Locomotive Importance of the M. caudofemoralis in Non-Avian Theropods . 2010. W. S. Pe...

Read his story over at Atomic Surgery The Hall of African Mammals at the American Museum of Natural History exists thanks to the efforts of...

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 ”.