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Von Baer (Feb 29, 1792 - Nov 28, 1876) was a Prussian-Estonian embryologist who discovered the mammalian egg (1827) and the notochord. He...

The twice Oscar-nominated Kellaway (Aug. 22, 1893 – Feb. 28, 1973) played Prof. Thurgood Elson in the classic Ray Harryhausen film, “ The Be...

On this day in 1953 Francis Crick (right)and J. Watson (left) discovered the structure of the DNA molecule. Molecular Visualizations of DNA...

Evolution of the Earliest Horses Driven by Climate Change in the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum . 2012. R. Secord, et al. Science 335: 959...

On this day in 1871 , Charles Darwin's book " Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex " was published in London.

Nov. 14, 1797 - Feb. 22, 1875 From Minnesota State University at Mankato comes this excellent bio on Lyell: Sir Charles Lyell attended Ox...

Cyanophora paradoxa Genome Elucidates Origin of Photosynthesis in Algae and Plants . 2012. D.C. Price, et al. Science 335: 843-847. Atmosph...

From My Greatest Adventure #40 , DC Comics The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig, Germany, has completed the ge...

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...

Any student of biology, or anyone with an interest in the natural world, will be familiar with Ernst Mayr who passed away on February 3rd,...

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From Today In Science History : In 1868, Charles Darwin's book - Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication - was published. ...

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...

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

Theory of the Origin, Evolution, and Nature of Life . 2012.E. D. Andrulis. Life 2012: 1-105. The Earth is alive, asserts a revolutionary sci...

Brad Ricca, a SAGES Fellow at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland who teaches classes on comic books and biography, is earning acco...

Follow Dr. David Evans from the Royal Ontario Museum/Univ. of Toronto on Twitter Here.

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

New evidence on the colour and nature of the isolated Archaeopteryx feather . 2012. R.M. Carney, et al. Nature Communications 3. Lead auth...

Oldest known dinosaurian nesting site and reproductive biology of the Early Jurassic sauropodomorph Massospondylus . 2012. R. Reisz et al. P...