Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Debuted This Day (1960): The Flintstones

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Read about Alan Reed , the voice of Fred Flintstone.

Born This Day: Charles Lapworth

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Lapworth (Sept. 30, 1842 - March 13, 1920) was an English geologist who proposed what came to be called the Ordovician period (505 to 438 ...
Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Pterosaur From The Valley of Gwangi

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From Prehistosaurio
Monday, September 28, 2015

Uncovering The Original Colour of Fossil Organisms

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Chemical, experimental, and morphological evidence for diagenetically altered melanin in exceptionally preserved fossils . 2015. PNAS. Re...
Sunday, September 27, 2015

Dead As A Dinosaur!

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From Prehistosaurio
Saturday, September 26, 2015

Born This Day (~1889): Winsor McCay

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Sept. 26, 1887 – July 26, 1934 McCay was one of the great American artists of the last century. He is best known for his newspaper comic...

Born This Day (1944): Victoria Vetri

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Victoria had a career doing bit parts in 1960’s TV including Batman and Star Trek (Isis the cat) , before becoming playmate of the year (1...

Born This Day (1941): Martine Beswick

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Image from here Beswick played Nupondi in One Million Years B.C. and also starred in Prehistoric Women , in addition to many roles on TV...

Born This Day (1887): Antonio Moreno, Discoverer of The Creature From The Black Lagoon

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image Antonio Moreno played Carl Maia, the scientist who discovered the fossil evidence for The Creature from the Black Lagoon. Moreno ...
Friday, September 25, 2015

The Evolution of Bees' Tongues Via Global Warming

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Functional mismatch in a bumble bee pollination mutualism under climate change . 2015. Science. Xenozoic © Mark Schultz Global warmin...
Thursday, September 24, 2015

Born This Day (1922): Bert I. Gordon

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Gordon was a movie producer of low, low budget films known for having great posters that sold the film. These films were fodder for many ep...

Died This Day: William Diller Matthew

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Matthew (Feb. 19, 1871 – Sept. 24, 1930) was a superb mammalian paleontologist and important biogeographic theorist , and also G. G. Simpson...
Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Desmatochelys padillai, The Oldest Known Marine Turtle?

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Oldest known marine turtle? A new protostegid from the Lower Cretaceous of Colombia . 2015. PaleoBios The partial skeleton of Desmatochel...
Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Ugrunaaluk kuukpikensis, A New Hadrosaur From North Alaska.

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A new Arctic hadrosaurid from the Prince Creek Formation (lower Maastrichtian) of northern Alaska . 2015. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. Ug...
Sunday, September 20, 2015

Dinosaurs Are Ruining My Life!

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From: Prehistosaurio!
Saturday, September 19, 2015

Tree of Life Published

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Synthesis of Phylogeny and Taxonomy Into a Comprehensive Tree of Life . C. Hinchliff et al. PNAS A first draft of the "tree of life...
Thursday, September 17, 2015

458-Million Year Old Twin Impact Craters Found in Sweden

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Scientists in Sweden have found two craters south of the city of Östersund with diameters of 7.5 and 0.7 kms. The two meteorite impacts o...
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

On This Day (1835): Darwin Reaches the Galapagos Islands

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image On this day in 1835, Charles Darwin arrived at the Galapagos archipelago, a cluster of islands on the equator 600 miles west of S...
Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Happy 101st Birthday to Gertie the Dinosaur!

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One hundred and one years ago today, Winsor McCay's animated film, Gertie the Dinosaur , premiered. Gertie is considered by many as the ...

So, What about Homo naledi's Geologic Age?

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Read the Phys. Org opinion piece quite rightly calling out the unknown age of the Homo naledi material reported here last week.