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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 ...

Photo from Parade of Life Through The Ages , by Charles Knight, Nat. Geo., Feb. 1942. From the American Museum of Natural History web sit...

“2 Billion Years in the Making!” Produced and directed by Irwin Allen, whose long career included such TV hits as Lost In Space and Voyag...

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

An interesting looking Kickstarter project from the always excellent Jim Lawson.

Oldest known euarchontan tarsals and affinities of Paleocene Purgatorius to Primates . 2015. Chester, S.G.B, et al. PNAS A new study has...

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 ...

Late Pleistocene Australian Marsupial DNA Clarifies the Affinities of Extinct Megafaunal Kangaroos and Wallabies . 2015. Llamas, B., et al. ...

image . On this day in 1759 , the British Museum , in Bloomsbury, London, the world's oldest public national museum, opened to the publ...

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

Island life in the Cretaceous - faunal composition, biogeography, evolution, and extinction of land-living vertebrates on the Late Cretaceou...

”Romer (Dec. 28, 1894 – Nov. 5, 1973) was director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University until his retirement in 1961 ...

A Ceratopsian Dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Western North America, and the Biogeography of Neoceratopsia . Farke, A., et al. PLoS On...

Erasmus (Dec. 12, 1731 – April 18, 1802) was a prominent English physician, poet, philosopher, botanist, naturalist and the grandfather of n...

Mary Douglas Nicol Leakey (Feb. 6, 1913 – Dec. 9, 1996) was in London, England . She meet her future husband, Louis Leakey , when he asked h...

image Spencer (April 27, 1820 - Dec. 8, 1903) was an English sociologist and philosopher who was an early adherent of evolutionary theo...

Today is the 25th anniversary of the Montreal Massacre at École Polytechnique in Montreal, Quebec that saw 14 women murdered, and another 1...

Louis Antoine Marie Joseph Dollo ( Dec. 7, 1857 – April 19, 1931 ) was a French vertebrate paleontologist who stated Dollo's Law of Irre...

Here's an example of a fun, short-lived strip that I'd never heard of. From Here

Painting by Mary Parrish Scott (Nov. 28, 1854 – Jan. 29, 1934) was an English paleobotanist and leading authority of his time on the struc...