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Evolution. Extinction. Fossilization. (Repeat)

Saturday, October 31, 2015

Creature From The Black Lagoon Alternative Posters

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Friday, October 30, 2015

The Feeding Style of Man's 500 Million Year Old Ancestor

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Cambrian cinctan echinoderms shed light on feeding in the ancestral deuterostome . 2015. Proc. Roy. Soc.B Reconstruction of Protocinctus ....
Thursday, October 29, 2015

When Giant Mushrooms Ruled The Earth

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Excavating Prototaxites From around 420 to 350 million years ago, when land plants were still the relatively new kids on the evolutionary b...
Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Vertebrate Penis Only Evolved Once

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Resurrecting embryos of the tuatara, Sphenodon punctatus , to resolve vertebrate phallus evolution . 2015. Biology Letters image New ...
Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Paleonauts by Mark Schultz

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Paleonauts © Mark Schultz This strip and more great art by Mark Schultz can be found in his latest collection, " Portfolio: The Co...
Monday, October 26, 2015

Frazetta's, The Land That Time Forgot

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From Here
Sunday, October 25, 2015

The Amazing Art of Roy G. Krenkel

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From The Amazing Art of Roy G. Krenkel Facebook page.
Saturday, October 24, 2015

Premiered This Day: Trog

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"A sympathetic anthropologist (Joan Crawford!) uses drugs and surgery to try to communicate with a primitive troglodyte found living in...
Friday, October 23, 2015

Rapid Evolution in Parasitic Wasps

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Sequential divergence and the multiplicative origin of community diversity . 2015. PNAS. A parasitic wasp ( Diachasma alloeum ) that prey...
Thursday, October 22, 2015

Chelonoidis donfaustoi, New Tortoise Species Form The Galapagos

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Description of a New Galapagos Giant Tortoise Species (Chelonoidis; Testudines: Testudinidae) from Cerro Fatal on Santa Cruz Island . 2015. ...

Died This Day: Sir Roderick Impey Murchison

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Murchison (Feb. 19, 1792 - Oct. 22, 1871) was a Scottish geologist who first differentiated the Silurian strata in the geologic sequence of...
Wednesday, October 21, 2015

The strange beauty of paleo art

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By Simon Stålenhag Nice short article by Ross Andersen at The Atlantic

Arvinachelys goldeni, New Fossil Baenid Turtle from Utah

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A new species of baenid turtle from the Kaiparowits Formation (Upper Cretaceous: Campanian) of southern Utah. Lively, J.R. 2015. Journal of ...
Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Life On Earth Started 4.1 Billion Years Ago

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Potentially biogenic carbon preserved in a 4.1 billion-year-old zircon . 2015. PNAS UCLA geochemists have found evidence that life likely...
Saturday, October 17, 2015

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 appearing...
Thursday, October 15, 2015

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...
Wednesday, October 14, 2015

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 o...
Tuesday, October 13, 2015

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 12, 2015

Prehistoric Times Playset

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Thanks to Howard Moody at Vintage Dinosaur Pictures.
Saturday, October 10, 2015

Weird Tales - A Million Years Later!

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From Prehistosaurio
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