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From Today In Science History : Lapworth (Sept. 30, 1842 - March 13, 1920) was an English geologist who proposed what came to be called ...

Illo by Danielle Dufault Read about it here .

Wilson is an American biologist noted for founding the science of sociobiology. In his book Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975) he argu...

From Today In Science History : Crick (June 8, 1916 – July 28, 2004) was a British biophysicist, who, with James Watson and Maurice Wilkin...

A Lower Cretaceous ichthyosaur graveyard in deep marine slope channel deposits at Torres del Paine National Park, Southern Chile . 2014. W. ...

image (Jean) Louis (Rodolphe) Agassiz (May 28, 1807 - Dec. 14, 1873) was a Swiss-born U.S. naturalist, geologist, and teacher who made rev...

Mary Anning (May 21, 1799 - March 9, 1847)was an English fossil collector who made her first significant discovery at the age of 11 or 12...

Rates of Dinosaur Body Mass Evolution Indicate 170 Million Years of Sustained Ecological Innovation on the Avian Stem Lineage . 2014. Benso...

From Today In Science History : Billings (May 5, 1820 - June 14, 1896) was a Canadian geologist and paleontologist, who was the first Cana...

From the UC Berkeley Page : Huxley (May, 4, 1825 - June 29, 1895) was born in Ealing, near London, the seventh of eight children in a fami...

From cscs.umich.edu : D'Arcy Thompson (May 2, 1860 – June 21, 1948) was a British biologist whose masterwork, On Growth and Form , is ...

Carlson (April 29, 1912 – Nov. 24, 1977) starred as Dr. David Reid (center)in the classic Creature From The Black Lagoon (1957). You know ...

Nov. 12, 1943 – April 29, 2008 The late Julie Ege had the lead role as Nala in the 1971 Hammer film, “ Creatures The World Forgot ”.

image Back on this day in 1956 the second sequel to The Creature From the Black Lagoon debuted . It's long been considered the weakes...

This Friday and Saturday DinoFest runs at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History . There will be lots of kid and family-friendly dino-r...

From the Willi Hennig Society : Hennig (April 20, 1913 – Nov. 5, 1976) is best known for developing phylogenetic systematics ,  a coherent...

From Today in Science History : Logan (April 20, 1798 – June 22, 1875) was a Canadian geologist dubbed the "Father of Canadian Geolog...

Armstrong (Nov. 20, 1890 – April 20, 1973) took Fay Wray to Skull Island in 1933. He returned later the same year to find The Son of Kong, o...

image “Meanwhile, the light-skinned Noble Johnson (April 18, 1881 – Jan. 9, 1978) was heavily made up for his role as the village chief [in...