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Wallace Fitzgerald Beery (April 1, 1885 – April 15, 1949) was an American actor who appeared in more than 250 films in over 36 years. At 16...

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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...

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...

Using the Aesop's Fable Paradigm to Investigate Causal Understanding of Water Displacement by New Caledonian Crows . 2014. Jelbert, S.A....

Hutton (June 3, 1726 - March 26, 1797) is considered to be the father of modern geology . He is accredited with proposing that observed geol...

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Adam Sedgwich (March 22, 1785 - January 27, 1873) was an English geologist who first applied the name Cambrian to the geologic period of ...

image Tobey (Mar. 23, 1917 - Dec. 22, 2002) made a career of playing “take charge, men of authority”, such as Capt. Hendry in Howard Haw...

A New Large-Bodied Oviraptorosaurian Theropod Dinosaur from the Latest Cretaceous of Western North America . 2014. Lamanna, M.C., et al. PLo...

In 1866, the Peabody Museum of Natural History was founded with a gift from George Peabody. The same year his nephew, O.C. Marsh (Oct. 29, ...

Jack Arnold (Oct. 14, 1916 - March 17, 1992) directed a number of classic SF films including The Creature From the Black Lagoon , Revenge ...

A Diminutive New Tyrannosaur from the Top of the World . 2014. Fiorillo, A.R., and R.S. Tykoski. PLoS ONE 9(3): e91287 Nanuqsaurus hoglund...

A role for iron and oxygen chemistry in preserving soft tissues, cells and molecules from deep time . 2014. Schweitzer, et al. Proc. R. Soc....

From The Victorian Web : Buckland (March 12, 1784 – August 15, 1856) was the first man to identify and name a dinosaur ( Megalosaurus ),...

Andrews (Jan.26, 1884-Mar.11, 1960) was an American naturalist, explorer, and author, who spent his entire career at the American Museum ...

From Today in Science History : Miller is an American chemist who made a series of famous experiments beginning in 1953, to determine th...

Melanosomes or Microbes: Testing an Alternative Hypothesis for the Origin of Microbodies in Fossil Feathers . 2014. Moyer, A., et al. Scient...

On this day in 1954, director Jack Arnold let loose The Creature from his Devonian-aged Amazonian lagoon. The Creature was actually played ...