Many amazing plants and animals that once existed on this planet are now extinct, but there are remnants of these life forms. Ancient fossils and DNA provide a glimpse into the world as it was for dinosaurs and
Among his various contributions, one of the most important is the systematic paleontological revision of several taxa of the group, with the proposal of several new genera, subgenera, species and subspecies, as well as the amendment of several families. His successful career has been deserving of...
Mary Anning’s first major fossil discovery was a complete ichthyosaur skeleton, which she found in 1811, at the age of 12. This was an important find, as the ichthyosaur, a marine reptile, was previously unknown to science. It was her discovery of this fossil that gained her recognition a...
As they sailed, he fell asleep. A squall came down on the lake, so that the boat was being swamped, and they were in great danger. The disciples went and woke him, saying, “Master, Master, we’re going to drown!” He got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waters; the storm...
By teaming up with a number of conferences to offer these awards, we are making it as easy as possible for organizers to reward excellence in science, support students and early career researchers, and signal to the wider research community that open science is...
"It's incredibly satisfying to know that my career and that the viewing audience that has traveled from the first ['Jurassic Park'] to this one now have taken a love of some of things we do," he notes. As creature effects creative supervisor on the film, Scanlan worked closely...
I also found a few other fossils I didn’t expect to find, but there they were. This happenstance served as a good reminder that simply going out into the field with a bullet-point checklist of what you think you’ll find (like what you just read) isn’t good enough. In other words...
At Princeton University, Henry Fairfield Osborn conducted studies of brain anatomy while serving as assistant professor of natural sciences (1881–83) and professor of comparative anatomy (1883–90). He spent the greater part of his career in New York City, as professor of biology (1891–96) ...
Gould uses the career of C.D. Walcott, who discovered these fossils, as a lesson in scientific accomplishment and the perils of scientific administration. has been criticized, in part because of Goulds argument about the uniqueness of these organisms. Yet the book remains an important exemplar ...
A rare exception is his speech at the celebration of the fortieth anniversary of Gorky’s literary career. Along with a number of platitudes, Marr offered here a stage-like account of the evolution of literary genres, referring to poetry as an earlier mode of writing and insisting on prose ...