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Many of you are aware that Phil Currie and Eva Koppelhus were part of a team that spent Dec. and Jan. in Antarctica where they successfully ...

Brontomerus mcintoshi , a new sauropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah, USA . 2011. M.P. Taylor, et al. A...

Homoplasy: From Detecting Pattern to Determining Process and Mechanism of Evolution . 2011. D. B. Wake, et al. Science 331: 1032-1035. Graph...

Matthew (Feb. 19, 1871 – Sept. 24, 1930) was a superb mammalian paleontologist and important biogeographic theorist , and also G. G. Simpson...

Hedin (Feb. 19,1865 - Nov. 26, 1952) was a Swedish explorer and geographer , born in Stockholm, who led four multi-year expeditions into Cen...

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

Feb. 16, 1783 - Jan. 15, 1875 d'Halloy was a Belgian geologist who was an early proponent of evolution and was acknowledged by Charles D...

image Haeckel (Feb, 16, 1834 - Aug. 9, 1919) was a German zoologist and evolutionist who was a strong proponent of Darwinism and proposed ne...

Although Sandra Shaw (May 27, 1913 – Feb. 16, 2000) had a short film career comprising a few, mostly uncredited film roles in 1933, her mos...

image Georg Christian Füchsel (Feb. 14, 1722 - June, 20, 1773) was the originator of the idea of stratigraphic formations & one of the...

In 1865, Gregor Mendel , who first discovered the laws of genetics, read his first scientific paper to the Brünn Society for the study of N...

image Hardy (Feb. 7, 1877 – Dec. 1, 1947) was an English mathematician known for his work in number theory and mathematical analysis. Altho...

From the Minnesota State University site : Mary Douglas Nicol Leakey (Feb. 6, 1913 – Dec. 9, 1996) was in London, England . She meet her fut...

Keith, examining skull Keith (Born 5 Feb 1866; died 7 Jan 1955) was a Scottish anatomist and physical anthropologist who specialized in the...

Brongniart (Feb. 5, 1770 - Oct. 7, 1847) was a French mineralogist, geologist, and naturalist, who first arranged the geologic formations of...

... or Pentaceratops ? You decide. Read the story at National Geographic News

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

July 5, 1904 - Feb. 3, 2005 Any student of biology, or anyone with an interest in the natural world, will be familiar with Ernst Mayr who ...

On this day in 1925 Raymond Dart announced the find of the “Taung child”, Australopithecus africanus , in The Star newspaper of Johannesbur...

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...