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Evolution. Extinction. Fossilization. (Repeat)

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Born This Day: Alfred Sherwood Romer

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”Romer (Dec. 28, 1894 – Nov. 5, 1973) was director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University until his retirement in 1961 ...
Monday, December 27, 2010

Plant-Eating Theropods

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Herbivorous ecomorphology and specialization patterns in theropod dinosaur evolution . 2010. L.E. Zanno & P. J. Makovicky. PNAS, publish...

Voyage of The Beagle Began Today

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From Today In Science History : In 1831, Charles Darwin set sail from Plymouth harbour on his voyage of scientific discovery aboard the HMS ...
Thursday, December 23, 2010

Triassic Extinction Recovery Took 10 Million Years

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The Luoping biota: exceptional preservation, and new evidence on the Triassic recovery from end-Permian mass extinction . 2010. Shi-xue Hu, ...
Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Premiered This Day (1933): Son of Kong

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With the fantastic success of “ King Kong ”, RKO tried to cash in by rushing this sequel into production and releasing it within the same y...

Died This Day: Kenneth Tobey

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image Tobey (Mar. 23, 1917 - Dec. 22, 2002) made a career of playing “take charge, men of authority”, such as Capt. Hendry in Howard Hawkes,...

Discovered This Day: 1st Living Coelacanth

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Internal anatomy of the coelacanth, Latimeria chalumnae . From Today In Science History : In 1938, a coelacanth , a primitive fish thought ...
Sunday, December 19, 2010

Roy Chapman Andrews Comics

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Read the comic book bio of RCA at Atomic Surgery . Download Central Asiatic Expeditions of the American Museum of Natural History, under the...

Born This Day: Richard Leakey

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image From Today In Science History : Leakey is a Kenyan physical anthropologist, paleontologist and second of three sons of noted anthropol...
Saturday, December 18, 2010

Geminiraptor, Oldest Troodontid

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A New Troodontid Theropod Dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Utah . 2010. P. Senter, et al. PLoS ONE 5(12): e14329, published Dec. 15. Th...

Died This Day: Sir Richard Owen

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From Today In Science History : Owen (July 20, 1804 – Dec. 18, 1892) was an English anatomist and paleontologist who is remembered for his c...

Died This Day: Jean-Baptiste de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck

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From Today in Science History : Lamarck (Aug.1, 1744 – Dec. 18, 1829) waa a pioneer French biologist who is noted for his speculations abou...

Died This Day: Theodosius Dobzhansky

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From Today In Science History : Dobzhansky (Jan. 25, 1900 – Dec. 18, 1975) was an Ukrainian-American geneticist and evolutionist whose wor...
Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Died This Day: Louis Agassiz

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image (Jean) Louis (Rodolphe) Agassiz (May 28, 1807 - Dec. 14, 1873) was a Swiss-born U.S. naturalist, geologist, and teacher who made revol...
Sunday, December 12, 2010

Born This Day: Sarah Douglas

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image Sarah gets a tip of the hat for playing Lady Charlotte Cunningham is the mostly forgotten Hammer Films adaptation of the Edgar Rice Bu...
Saturday, December 11, 2010

Premiered This Day: Journey to the Beginning of Time

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On this day in 1955 the Czech film, Cesta do praveku , by Karl Zeman debuted in East Germany. It was laters redubbed and shown with addition...
Tuesday, December 07, 2010

Born This Day: Louis Dollo

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From Today In Science History Louis Antoine Marie Joseph Dollo ( Dec. 7, 1857 – April 19, 1931 ) was a French vertebrate paleontologist who ...

Koreaceratops

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The first ceratopsian dinosaur from South Korea . 2010. Y.-N. Lee, et al. Naturwissenschaften, published online 17 November. Art © Julius Cs...
Saturday, December 04, 2010

Died This Day: Thomas Hunt Morgan

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From Today In Science History : Thomas Hunt Morgan (Sept. 25, 1866 – Dec. 4, 1945) was an American zoologist and geneticist, famous for his ...
Friday, December 03, 2010

Kosmoceratops: Strange Science Fantasy?

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Strange Science Fantasy © Scott Morse This may be the quickest turn around time for a new dino appearing in an entertainment medium...
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