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Eugene Dubois (Jan. 28, 1858-Dec. 16, 1940) joined the Dutch Army as a medical officer, and used spare time from his medical duties to searc...

Intra-guild competition and its implications for one of the biggest terrestrial predators, Tyrannosaurus rex . 2011. C. Carbone, et al. Proc...

From Today In Science History : Sedgwick (March 22, 1785 - January 27, 1873) was an English geologist who first applied the name Cambrian t...

Direct U-Pb dating of Cretaceous and Paleocene dinosaur bones, San Juan Basin, New Mexico . 2011. J. E. Fassett et al., Geology 39 :159-162 ...

Photo from Parade of Life Through The Ages , by Charles Knight, Nat. Geo., Feb. 1942. From the American Museum of Natural History web site:...

A monodactyl nonavian dinosaur and the complex evolution of the alvarezsauroid hand . 2011. X. Xu, et al. PNAS, Published online before prin...

Dobzhansky (Jan.25, 1900–Dec. 18, 1975) is noted for being one of the architects of the modern Synthetic Theory of evolution. During the fi...

A Basal Dinosaur from the Dawn of the Dinosaur Era in Southwestern Pangaea . R. Martinez, et al. Science 331: 206-210. Abstract: Upper Tria...

An Egg-Adult Association, Gender, and Reproduction in Pterosaurs . 2011. Junchang Lü, et al. Science 331: 321-324. Male (right) and female D...

Catastrophic dispersion of coal fly ash into oceans during the latest Permian extinction . 2011. S. E. Grasby. Nature Geoscience, published ...

“2 Billion Years in the Making!” Produced and directed by Irwin Allen, whose long career included such TV hits as Lost In Space and Voyage ...

The Role of Ammonites in the Mesozoic Marine Food Web Revealed by Jaw Preservation . I. Kruta, et al. Science 331: 70-72. image Powerful new...

From the U Calif., Berkeley : Along with Dobzhansky (1900 - 1975), animal systematist Ernst Mayr , and paleontologist George Gaylord Simpso...

From Today In Science History : Mendel (July 22, 1822 – Jan. 6, 1884) was an Austrian pioneer in the study of heredity. He spent his adult ...

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

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

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

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

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...

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,...