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From Today In Science History : Lapworth (Sept. 30, 1842 - March 13, 1920) was an English geologist who proposed what came to be called th...

Cranial Growth and Variation in Edmontosaurs (Dinosauria: Hadrosauridae): Implications for Latest Cretaceous Megaherbivore Diversity in Nort...

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Winsor McCay (Sept. 26, 1987 – July 26, 1934) was one of the great American artists of the last century. He is best known for his newspaper...

This lantern slide is from a collection showing field excavations in Arizona, at the Grand Canyon and other unnamed locations in the Painted...

Ted Daeschler/ANSP (image), K. Monoyios (illo) The 375-million-year-old Laccognathus embryi was d found at the same site as Tiktaalik , on E...

image Sept. 10, 1941 - May 20. 2002 Here’s a nice piece on Gould by Henry Lowood from the Stanford Presidential Lectures in the Humanities ...

image "While on a hunting trip, Tor and his faithful companion Tog rescue an ancient hermit from a Tyrannosarus rex . Grateful, the old...

Australopithecus sediba at 1.977 Ma and Implications for the Origins of the Genus Homo . R. Pickering, et al. Science 333: 1421-1423. Five ...

Painting by Dan Erickson of the Phaeton Group William Lonsdale (Sept. 9, 1794 – Nov. 11, 1891 ) was an English geologist and paleontologist ...

From The Academy of Natural Sciences : Leidy (Sept. 9, 1823 - April 30, 1891) is known as the "Father of American Vertebrate Paleontolo...

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From Today In Science History Hayden (Sept. 7, 1829 - Dec. 22, 1887) was an American geologist and explorer of the U.S. West. After finishin...

Buffon (Sept. 7, 1707 – April 16, 1788) was a French naturalist, who formulated a crude theory of evolution and was the first to suggest tha...

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Alvarez (June 13, 1911 - Sept. 1, 1988) was an American experimental physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1968 for work...

image In 1831, Charles Darwin was visiting Maer Hall, home of his uncle Josiah Wedgwood II, whom he told of his father, Robert Darwin...

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

Well, it premiered in Sweden on this date. It took until Nov. 14, 1981 to make it to the USA.