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A new basal ornithopod dinosaur (Frenchman Formation, Saskatchewan, Canada), and implications for late Maastrichtian ornithischian diversity...

Sauropod dinosaur osteoderms from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar . 2011. K. Curry Rogers, et al. Nature Communications 2, article number:...

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My Greatest Adventure #68 From Today In Science History : In 1859, The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection was published in Engl...

A monofenestratan pterosaur from the Kimmeridge Clay Formation (Upper Jurassic, Kimmeridgian) of Dorset, England . 2011. D.M. Martill and S....

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

The The Ghost of Slumber Mountain premiered this day in 1918. It was written and directed by special effects pioneer Willis O'Brien an...

Fossilized Biophotonic Nanostructures Reveal the Original Colors of 47-Million-Year-Old Moths . 2011. M.E. McNamara, et al. PLoS Biol 9(11...

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...

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 ...

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Skimming the surface with Burgess Shale arthropod locomotion . 2011. N. J. Minter, et al. Proc. R. Soc. B. Published online before print Nov...

(March 2, 1886 - November 8, 1962) From his biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia: O'Brien was a special effects wizar...

Visit The Paleomap Project Alfred Lothar Wegener ( Nov. 1, 1880 – Nov, 1930 ) was a German meteorologist and geophysicist who first gave a ...

de Beer (Nov. 1, 1899 – June 21, 1972) was an English zoologist and morphologist who contributed to experimental embryology, anatomy, and ...

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

"A sympathetic anthropologist (Joan Crawford!) uses drugs and surgery to try to communicate with a primitive troglodyte found living in...