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Cover of Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences featuring a person outdoors with greenery in the background, highlighting the most read article in 2025.
Our most read article of 2025 examines the Canadian fossil record supporting anagenesis in Triceratops. Read it now ▶️ https://ow.ly/1KQC50XVNF1
👥 Jordan Mallon, Mathew Roloson, Emily Bamforth, John Scannella, Dr Michael J Ryan
#BestofCSP Canadian Museum of Nature Carleton University
PREMIERED THIS DAY (1915): THE DINOSAUR & THE MISSING LINK. It features the earliest work of a young Willis O'Brien who would go on to bring King Kong to life. Watch the film thanks to The Library of Congress. youtu.be/so9Exr5Ammo?...
BORN THIS DAY: ELKANAH BILLINGS (May 5,1820-June 14,1896): Canada’s first paleontologist. His boss Sir William Logan wrote him (1869): "Your constant absence from the office is a worrying annoyance, particularly as I have reason to suspect that it does not arrive from rheumatism."
More for May the 4th: colleague Dr David West Reynolds standing at the bluff where Luke looked down on Mos Eisley. In the distance you can just see the palm trees that mark the location of the Well of Souls dig site from Raiders of the Lost Ark. Was this Tunisian adventure really 30 years ago?!
My colleague, Dr. David West Reynolds, released a Kickstarter-backed documentary about this adventure with LucasFilm a few years ago.
Looking forward to this overdue collection. Any chance DC might also reprint the old Golden Age Doctor Fate archive collection? Mine went AWOL during a move.
For May the 4th: Me discovering the origin Krayt Dragon prop skeleton in Tunisia back in the early 90’s. The film quarry abandoned this & all the Star Wars props when they left. After I found them (and left them in place!), collectors followed in my footsteps and scoped them up. Hello Ebay!
BORN THIS DAY: JOSEPH BARRELL (Dec 15, 1869–May 4, 1919: Proposed that sedimentary rocks were produced by the action of rivers, etc (1917); used radioactive dating to reinterpret Earth's age to billion years; argued that severe climate drove the evolution of air-breathing vertebrates
Died This Day: Joseph Leidy (Sept 9, 1823 - April 30, 1891). The Father of American Vertebrate Paleontology described the holotype of Hadrosaurus foulkii, the 1st American mostly complete dinosaur. He also mentored a young E.D. Cope and pointed he and Marsh to the rich fossil resources of the West
DIED THIS DAY: LOUIS DOLLO (Dec 7, 1857–April 19, 1931). Dollo researched the Iguanodons found in 1878 in a mine at Bernissart, Belgium. He is also noted for ‘Dollo's Law of Irreversibility’ which states that a complex structure once lost in evolution never reappears exactly in its former state
Died This Day: Erasmus Darwin (Dec 12, 1731 – April 18, 1802). Grandfather of Charles Darwin, he was a philosopher/naturalist who formulated one of the first theories of evolution in his ‘Zoonomia’ (1794-1796). In it he discussed how life evolved from a single common ancestor
phys.org/news/2025-04... Really? I thought that Martin Lockley described some years ago. Either way, congrats to Victoria and the team!
cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... Thanks to Jordan Mallon for inviting me onto this nifty paper.
I wonder how those other bands did? 🎸🔊
She's great in The Inner Circle (1946). That film needs a Bluray restoration!
youtu.be/-UWRBzi0Heo?... Who doesn't love stop-motion dinosaurs?! "Radatron - Journey to the Dinosaurs" circa 1965. That looks a lot like Jack Kirby's Devil Dinosaur.
DIED THIS DAY: JAMES HUTTON (June 3, 1726 – Mar 26, 1797). Scottish geologist known as the Father of Modern Geology for helping establish geology as a modern science. His Principle of Uniformitarianism states that modern geological features are the result of continuing natural processes over time.
I was all over the radio and MTV in it's day.....
Cool!
Marsh
Died This Day: Othniel Charles Marsh (Oct 29, 1931 - Mar 18, 1899). One of the most important figures in North American dinosaur paleontology, Marsh is noted for naming numerous dinosaurs, including Stegosaurus and Triceratops, and his bitter rivalry with Edward Drinker Cope know as The Bone Wars.
Premiered This Day (1970): When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth. Hammer’s follow up to One Million Years B.C. (1966) lacked Ray Harryhausen’s animated dinosaurs, but did feature excellent stop-motion work by Jim Danforth and David Allen, and arguably a better script by English SF author, J.G. Ballard.
Isn't that Guilala, the X from Outer Space?
