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... that Gustava Aigner made the first discovery of graptolites in the northern greywacke zone of the Alps, with her former fellow student, Ida Peltzmann, who named two species for her? (2013-07-02)
... that the paleobotanists David P. Penhallow and Chester A. Arnold both published studies on the extinct water-fern Azolla primaeva? (2010-09-17)
... that in 1902, 23-year-old British archaeozoologist Dorothea Bate discovered a new species of dwarf elephant in a cave on the island of Cyprus? (2007-11-28)
... that Mary Buckland, a scientific illustrator, took a year-long geological tour as a honeymoon with her husband William Buckland? (2012-09-29)
... that geologist T.H. Clark retired from McGill University in Quebec, Canada, at the age of 100, after teaching for 69 years? (2006-12-22)
... that despite having no university training, Agnes Crane described a new species of brachiopod in 1886? (2024-10-12)
... that Jan Czerski (pictured), exiled to Siberia after the January Uprising, became a self-taught scientist and Siberian explorer, thrice decorated with the gold medal by the Russian Geographical Society? (2007-11-09)
... that Suzanne Duigan was a botanist who specialised in palynology, particularly the study of fossil pollen? (2016-03-13)
... that Professor Clive Finlayson has theorized that the genetic similarities between Neanderthals and humans are not only due to interbreeding but could also originate from a common African ancestor? (2012-07-21)
... that, although Elizabeth Gray died, her family's tradition of collecting fossils at Girvan lasted for 86 years? (2015-12-28)
... that Endre Berner, Bjørn Føyn, Carl Jacob Arnholm, Eiliv Skard, Harald K. Schjelderup and Anatol Heintz were among the professors at the University of Oslo who were arrested by Nazis during World War II? (2010-01-25)
... that the bioluminescent crustacean Vargula hilgendorfii, named after Franz Hilgendorf, was used as a light source by Japanese soldiers in World War II? (2010-02-20)
... that Tory Member of Parliament Admiral Theobald Jones (1790–1868) laid the foundation of Irish lichenology? (2014-07-11)
... that malacologist Myra Keen was called the "First Lady of Malacology"? (2012-03-08)
... that paleontologist Gerta Keller theorizes that dinosaurs did not become extinct until 300,000 years after the Chicxulub meteor, though she agrees that "I'm sure the day after, they had a headache"? (2009-06-18)
... that French paleontologist Charles Lamberton scathingly rebutted a theory claiming that some extinct, giant lemurs were aquatic and that one of them was an "arboreal-aquatic acrobat"? (2012-02-23)
... that Frederic Brewster Loomis uncovered vertebrate fossils that were still exhibited at Amherst College's Beneski Museum of Natural History almost a century later? (2014-02-23)
... that paleoecologist Heinz Lowenstam discovered that living organisms can produce magnetite within their bodies? (2008-05-27)
... that palaeontologist Lü Junchang identified the pterosaur genus Darwinopterus, and "Mrs. T", a pregnant female discovered with her egg? (2018-12-04)
... that in the first scientific study of fossils in English, William Martin speculated that horn coral (pictured) was a kind of bamboo and said another fossil was not a small crocodile tail? (2011-03-06)
... that the fossil of Ichthyornis (pictured) discovered by Benjamin Franklin Mudge was the first bird recognized to possess teeth? (2007-04-07)
... that Francisco Javier Muñiz was considered the first important naturalist from Argentina? (2013-12-28)
... that Adolf Carl Noé challenged disbelief in the possibility of North American coal balls (example pictured) by presenting a wheelbarrow full of them? (2012-02-22)
... that Stephen Jay Gould once called Donald Prothero "the best punctuated equilibrium researcher on the West Coast"? (2013-03-18)
... that biological anthropologist David Tab Rasmussen enjoyed working in the Neotropics because it allowed him to study both primates and birds, his two favorite subjects? (2015-07-19)
... that Canadian paleontologist Scott D. Sampson hosted the four episode nature documentary series Dinosaur Planet for the Discovery Channel in 2003? (2010-05-31)
... that the British palaeontologist R. J. G. Savage was described by a colleague as "a raffish gentleman explorer"? (2015-08-24)
... that the dinosaur Wendiceratops (pictured) was named for fossil hunter Wendy Sloboda, who then had it tattooed on her arm in celebration? (2015-07-30)
... that palaeontologist Varavudh Suteethorn has helped name and describe more than 25 fossil species from Thailand, including dinosaurs, fish, mammals, turtles, and crocodylomorphs? (2018-12-08)
... that Scottish naturalist Ramsay Heatley Traquair received the Royal Medal of the Royal Society in 1907 for his work on fossil fish? (2011-08-14)
... that the extinct fern species Osmunda wehrii was named in honor of Northwest school painter and amateur paleobotanist Wesley C. Wehr? (2011-08-21)
... that Kirill Eskov named a genus from the Linyphiidae spider family discovered by him in 1988 after Kikimora, a female spirit in Slavic mythology? (2008-01-17)
... that Zhang Dongju, Chen Fahu, and J.-J. Hublin discovered that a fossil jaw from Baishiya Cave belonged to the first known Denisovan outside Siberia and the first known human on the Tibetan Plateau? (2019-06-07)