Saturday, March 30, 2013

Geological Time Scale First Proposed (1759)

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Geological Time Scale In 1759, Italian geologist Giovanni Arduino (1714-1795) dated a letter to Professor A.Vallisneri the younger, in whic...
Friday, March 29, 2013

Premiered This Day: Gorgo

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Gorgo premiered on this day in 1961. Directed by Eugène Lourié from a script by John Loring and Daniel Hyat, it featured a man in a rubber...
Monday, March 25, 2013

The End Triassic Extinction

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Zircon U-Pb geochronology links the end-Triassic extinction with the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province . Blackburn, T.J., et al., Science, ...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Scrappy Little Jaw

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The Ottawa, ON, based band <><>>>>> (aka The Band Whose Name is A Symbol , aka TBWNIS ) will shortly be releasing t...
Monday, February 25, 2013

The Brainless Origin of The Head

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The bilaterian head patterning gene six3/6 controls aboral domain development in a cnidarian . 2013. Sinigaglia, C., et al. PLoS Biology 10....
Thursday, February 21, 2013

Bads News on Jobs for Recent Ph.D.s

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Read the article at The Atlantic: The Ph.D Bust: America's Awful Market for Young Scientists—in 7 Charts
Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Born This Day: Barnum Brown

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Feb. 12, 1873 – Feb. 5, 1963 Photo © AMNH From the AMNH bio : The greatest dinosaur hunter of the twentieth century was Barnum Brown , w...

Born This Day: Charles Darwin

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Feb. 12, 1809 – April 19, 1882 stamp More about Darwin HERE .
Sunday, February 10, 2013

Published This Day: Steno Recognizes the Organic Origin of Fossils

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From Today In Science History : In 1667, a classic paleontological paper by Nicolaus Steno was published by the Royal Society, London. Hi...
Saturday, February 09, 2013

Asteroid Did Kill The Dinosaurs

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Time Scales of Critical Events Around the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary . 2013. P.R. Renne, et al. Science 339: 684-687. Abstract: Mass ex...
Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Published This Day: Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication by Darwin

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From Today In Science History : In 1868, Charles Darwin's book - Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication - was published....
Monday, January 28, 2013

Born This Day: Eugene Dubois

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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...
Sunday, January 27, 2013

The Good Old Days of Dinosaur Provincal Park

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As I was sorting through some old photos (circa 2000) I set aside some taken not all that long ago when the field station in DPP was the cen...

Died This Day: Adam Sedgwick

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From Today In Science History : Sedgwick (March 22, 1785 - January 27, 1873) was an English geologist who first applied the name Cambrian...
Saturday, January 26, 2013

Born This Day: Roy Chapman Andrews

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Photo from Parade of Life Through The Ages , by Charles Knight, Nat. Geo., Feb. 1942. From the American Museum of Natural History web sit...
Friday, January 25, 2013

Born This Day: Theodosius Dobzhansky

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Dobzhansky (Jan.25, 1900–Dec. 18, 1975) is noted for being one of the architects of the modern Synthetic Theory of evolution. During the fi...
Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Sheep Taphonomy

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Photo and caption by Johannes Bojesen The sheep had drowned while trying to cross a small canal in the meadow-swamp 'Tøndermasken' i...

Abstracts due for Vertebrate Paleontology session at North-Central GSA, 2013

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You're invited to present at the GSA North-Central Section 47th Annual Meeting in Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2–3 May 2013. Evan Scott (ees20 a...
Sunday, January 13, 2013

Stalking Attenborough

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