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image Directed by Carl Gottlieb and starring Ringo Starr, this film is probably best known for introducing Starr to his future wife, Barbar...

Buffon (Sept. 7, 1707 – April 16, 1788) was a French naturalist, who formulated a crude theory of evolution and was the first to suggest tha...

Image and a nice overview of her work on DNA Rosalind Franklin (July 25, 1920 - Apr. 16, 1958) was an English scientist who contributed to ...

Written and directed by Arthur C. Pierce, and starring the perennial C-list actor John Agar ( who had his own Prehistoric Theme Park! ), th...

From Today in Science History : On this day in 1953, the journal Nature published a paper from Francis Crick and James Watson, titled Mole...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

Feb. 12, 1809 – April 19, 1882 stamp More about Darwin HERE .

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

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

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...

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...

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

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