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image Robert Broom (Nov. 30, 1866 – April 6, 1951) was a South African doctor and paleontologist. From 1903 to 1910 he was professor of zo...

Steno (a.k.a. Niels Steensen, or Stensen)(Jan. 10 – Nov. 26, 1686) was a Danish geologist and anatomist who first made unprecedented discove...

Time cover Conkin (Nov. 24, 1963 - Nov. 21, 1952) was an American biologist and embryologist. In 1905 he discovered that the contents of a t...

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

Carlson (April 29, 1912 – Nov. 24, 1977) starred as Dr. David Reid in the classic Creature From The Black Lagoon (1957). You know that he w...

image Steve Clemente (born Esteban Clemento Morro Nov. 22, 1885—May 7, 1950) was a Mexican actor known for his many villainous roles. He ...

Armstrong (Nov. 20, 1890 – April 20, 1973) took Fay Wray to Skull Island in 1933. He returned later the same year to find The Son of Kong, o...

The Boston Globe has a nice article about the late paleontologist, Farish Jenkins, who passed away earlier this year.

Walt Disney’s epic film, Fantasia, opened this day on Broadway in New York City in 1940. The film featured Leopold Stokowski and the Philad...

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...

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

Art © Mark Schultz, 2012 Abstract: Xenoceratops foremostensis gen. et. sp. nov., a new centrosaurine ceratopsid from the Foremost Formati...

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

image This 1948 film written by Robert T. Shannon and directed by Jack Bernhard features some of the worst ‘man dressed up as a T. rex ’ e...

Jack Arnold (Oct. 14, 1916 - March 17, 1992) directed a number of classic SF films including The Creature From the Black Lagoon , Revenge ...

Louis and Mary Leakey From Today In Science History : Leakey (Aug 7, 1903 – October 1, 1972), an archaeologist and anthropologist, was ...

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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 ...

Did you know that the Royal Ontario Museum did a comic book to go with their excellent new dinosaur show, " Ultimate Dinosaurs "? ...

An early SF story by Al Williamson