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image Paula (center) played the role of plucky Lee Hunter, assistant to paleontologist Dr. Thurgood Elson (Cecil Kellaway) (right) in Ray H...

image William King Gregory (May, 19 1876 – Dec. 29, 1970) was an American zoologist and paleontologist who studied under Henry Fairfield O...

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

From Today In Science History : In 1831, Charles Darwin set sail from Plymouth harbour on his voyage of scientific discovery aboard the H...

With the fantastic success of “ King Kong ”, RKO tried to cash in by rushing this sequel into production and release within the same year ...

Internal anatomy of the coelacanth, Latimeria chalumnae . From Today In Science History : In 1938, a coelacanth , a primitive fish thou...

From Today In Science History Hayden (Sept. 7, 1829 - Dec. 22, 1887) was an American geologist and explorer of the U.S. West. After finish...

The father of radiation genetics , Muller (Dec. 21, 1890 – April 5, 1967) began his career with T.H. Morgan studying mutations in fruit flie...

From the ever eloquent Today In Science History : Wright (Dec. 21, 1889 – March 3, 1988) was an American geneticist who was one of the fou...

Molecular mechanisms underlying the exceptional adaptations of batoid fins . 2015. PNAS image The evolution of the striking, wing-like pe...

image From Today In Science History : Leakey is a Kenyan physical anthropologist, paleontologist and second of three sons of noted ant...

Owen (July 20, 1804 – Dec. 18, 1892) was an English anatomist and paleontologist who is remembered for his contributions to the study of fos...

Lamarck (Aug.1, 1744 – Dec. 18, 1829) was French biologist noted for his speculations about the evolution of living things, particularly h...

Dobzhansky (Jan.25, 1900–Dec. 18, 1975) is noted for being one of the architects of the modern Synthetic Theory of evolution. During the fi...

Dec 17, 1908 – Sept. 8, 1980 Libby was an American chemist who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1960 for developing the technique of c...

In 1932 Betty Boop had her own “Night in the Museum”.

Jan. 28, 1858-Dec. 16, 1940 Eugene Dubois joined the Dutch Army as a medical officer, and used spare time from his medical duties to searc...

image May 28, 1807 - Dec. 14, 1873 (Jean) Louis (Rodolphe) Agassiz was a Swiss-born U.S. naturalist, geologist, and teacher who made re...

Armored kinorhynch-like scalidophoran animals from the early Cambrian . 2015. Scientific Reports A team of Virginia Tech researchers h...