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Evolution. Extinction. Fossilization. (Repeat)

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Bob Bakker: Kung Fu Stegosaurs

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Stegosaurian Martial Arts: A Jurassic Carnivore Stabbed by a Tail Spike, Evidence for Dynamic Interactions between a Live Herbivore and a Li...

Died This Day: John Scopes

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Image Scopes (Oct. 21, 1970 - Aug. 4, 1900) was an American teacher and geologist who was the defendent in the infamous Scopes Monkey Trial...
Friday, October 17, 2014

Born This Day: Julie Adams

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. Julie starred as Kay Lawrence in The Creature From The Black Lagoon (1954). Adams has had a long career in films and TV, recently appe...

Got Great Paleo Art?

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By Danielle Dufault

The Queen of Dinosaur Planet

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Prints by Kevin Dart available HERE
Thursday, October 16, 2014

Captain Comet Explains Evolution

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HERE
Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Tachiraptor admirabilis, early dinosaur from Venezuela

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New dinosaur (Theropoda, stem-Averostra) from the earliest Jurassic of the La Quinta formation, Venezuelan Andes . 2014. Langer, M.C., et al...

On This Day (1827): Darwin Accepted into Cambridge

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In 1827, Charles Darwin was accepted into Christ's College at Cambridge, but did not start until winter term because he needed to catc...

Premiered This Day: Unknown Island

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image This 1948 film written by Robert T. Shannon and directed by Jack Bernhard features some of the worst ‘man dressed up as a T. rex ’ ef...
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Born This Day: Jack Arnold

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

Died This Day: Thomas Davidson

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May 17, 1817 – Oct. 14, 1885 Davison was a Scottish naturalist and paleontologist who became known as an authority on brachiopods. His maj...
Monday, October 13, 2014

Born This Day: Sir John William Dawson

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Dawson (Oct. 13, 1820 - Nov. 20, 1899>) was a Canadian geologist who made numerous contributions to paleobotany and extended the knowled...
Monday, October 06, 2014

Died This Day: George Gaylord Simpson

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Simpson (June 16, 1902 - October 6, 1984) is known for his contributions to evolutionary theory and to the understanding of intercontinent...
Wednesday, October 01, 2014

Died This Day: Louis Leakey

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Louis and Mary Leakey From Today In Science History : Leakey (Aug 7, 1903 – October 1, 1972), an archaeologist and anthropologist, was ...
Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Debuted This Day (1960): The Flintstones

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Born This Day: Charles Lapworth

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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 ...
Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Mercuriceratops gemini, A New Chasmosaurine Ceratopsid

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Illo by Danielle Dufault Read about it here .
Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Born This Day: E.O. Wilson

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Wilson is an American biologist noted for founding the science of sociobiology. In his book Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975) he argu...
Sunday, June 08, 2014

Born This Day: Francis Crick

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From Today In Science History : Crick (June 8, 1916 – July 28, 2004) was a British biophysicist, who, with James Watson and Maurice Wilkin...
Wednesday, June 04, 2014

A Lower Cretaceous Ichthyosaur Bone Bed from Chile

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