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A bizarre Jurassic maniraptoran theropod with preserved evidence of membranous wings . 2015. Xu, et. al. Nature A new scansoriopterygi...

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 ”.

An enigmatic plant-eating theropod from the Late Jurassic period of Chile . 2015. Novas, F., et al. Nature. Chilesaurus diegosuarezi is ...

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

Here's a great blog post from our friend and master artist, Luis Rey , on his participation in Chicken Fest in London on April 23, 201...

Complete genomes reveal signatures of demographic and genetic declines in the woolly mammoth . 2015. Palkopoulou et al. Current Biology. ...

image Flavin (May 14, 1906 – April 23, 1976) starred in his first film ( The Airmail Mystery ) in 1932. After that he played mostly suppor...

Evidence for Sexual Dimorphism in the Plated Dinosaur Stegosaurus mjosi (Ornithischia, Stegosauria) from the Morrison Formation (Upper Jura...

Changing the picture of Earth's earliest fossils (3.5-1.9 Ga) with new approaches and new discoveries . 2015. PNAS New analysis of world...

Patrick Matthew (1790-1874) was a Scottish landowner with a keen interest in politics and agronomy who also came up with the concept of ...

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...

Cabot (April 20, 1904 – May 3, 1972) saved Fay Wray from King Kong back in 1933, one of eight films he made that year.

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...

Feb. 12, 1809 – April 19, 1882 stamp More about Darwin HERE .

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

image Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (April 19, 1795 - June 27, 1876) was a German biologist, microscopist, explorer and micropaleontol...

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

Arkell (June 9, 1904 - April 18, 1958) was an English paleontologist who was an authority on Jurassic ammonites and their environments. He w...