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Art by Henry Boltinoff, Showcase #41 < DC Comics, 1962  Plus some Science Facts from Showcase #40:

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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...

A Silurian myodocope with preserved soft-parts: cautioning the interpretation of the shell-based ostracod record . Siviter, D.J., et al. Pro...

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High C/N ratio (not low-energy content) of vegetation may have driven gigantism in sauropod dinosaurs and perhaps omnivory and/or endothermy...

Erasmus (Dec. 12, 1731 – April 18, 1802) was a prominent English physician, poet, philosopher, botanist, naturalist and the grandfather of n...

From Strange Adventures #3, 1950

Louis Antoine Marie Joseph Dollo ( Dec. 7, 1857 – April 19, 1931 ) was a French vertebrate paleontologist who stated Dollo's Law of Irre...

The oldest dinosaur? A Middle Triassic dinosauriform from Tanzania . 2012. Nesbitt, S., et al. Biol. Lett.. 2013 9 1 20120949 Abstract: T...

Read The Land That Time Forgot from Forbidden Worlds, 1956.

Jack Lerbekmo, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Alberta, passed away on Thursday, November 29. To par...

image Frank Reicher (Dec. 2, 1875 – Jan. 19, 1965) was born in Munich,Germany and had a long career in Hollywood. He appeared in over 200 ...

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

Haldane (Nov. 5, 1892 - Dec. 1, 1964) is best remembered along with E. B. Ford and R. A. Fisher one of the three major figures to develop th...

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...