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A New Titanosaurian Sauropod from the Hekou Group (Lower Cretaceous) of the Lanzhou-Minhe Basin, Gansu Province, China   Image : Universi...

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

From My Greatest Adventure #31 , May, 1959 DC Comics. Cover by Bob Brown. Art by George Roussos

Horace Bénédict de Saussure Born 17 Feb 1740; died 22 Jan 1799. A Swiss physicist and geologist, he introduced the term geology into the ...

From the U Calif., Berkeley : Along with Dobzhansky (1900 - 1975), animal systematist Ernst Mayr , and paleontologist George Gaylord Simp...

From Today In Science History : August (Friedrich Leopold) Weismann (Jan. 17, 1834 – Nov. 5, 1914) was a German biologist and one of the f...

Ruth Rose (Jan. 16, 1896 - June 8, 1978 ) was the daughter of Edward E. Rose. In 1926 she meet (and later married) cinematographer Ernest S...

Decoupled Hf-Nd isotopes in Neoarchean seawater reveal weathering of emerged continents Viehmann, et al., Geology, on-line early publicatio...

Art © Mark Schultz Munro is probably best known for her role in in the Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). She had a long career in a ...

d'Halloy (Feb. 16, 1783 - Jan. 15, 1875) was a Belgian geologist who was an early proponent of evolution and was acknowledged by Charles...

From Today in Science History : U.S. zoologist and paleontologist who studied invertebrate fossil records, the evolution of the cephalopod...

Devil Dinosaur by Jack Kirby © Marvel Comics

Good news for everyone who followed the Palaeoblog. It will be coming back in a modified form in the near future. Much like the Rhedosaurus ...

After an extended break, the Palaeoblog is officially closing up shop. When it started up almost 10 years ago it was a great way to get pa...

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 ...