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New data on the diversity and abundance of smallbodied ornithopods (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Belly River Group (Campanian) of Albe...

The oldest North American pachycephalosaurid and the hidden diversity of small-bodied ornithischian dinosaurs . 2013. D.C. Evans, et al. Nat...

Ray Harryhausen passed away today. No doubt his spirit is roaming a jungle somewhere "way west of Sumatra" with Willis, Merian, ...

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...