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August 1:
- 1895 - Gábor Andreánszky was born in Alsópetény, Austria-Hungary.
First Diagnostic Marine Reptile Remains from the Aalenian (Middle Jurassic): A New Ichthyosaur from Southwestern Germany
Erin E. Maxwell, Marta S. Fernández, Rainer R. Schoch
published 01 Aug 2012
August 2:
- 1672 - Johann Jakob Scheuchzer was born in Zürich, Switzerland.
- 1832 - Andreas Kornhuber was born in Kematen, Austria.
- 1842 - Vladimir Kovalevsky was born in Vārkava, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire.
- 1918 - James A. Jensen was born in Leamington, Utah, USA.
Mountain Building Triggered Late Cretaceous North American Megaherbivore Dinosaur Radiation
Terry A. Gates, Albert Prieto-Márquez, Lindsay E. Zanno
published 02 Aug 2012
August 3:
- 1928 - William J. Breed was born in Massillon, Ohio.
Growth Dynamics of Australia's Polar Dinosaurs
Holly N. Woodward, Thomas H. Rich, Anusuya Chinsamy, Patricia Vickers-Rich
published 03 Aug 2011
August 4:
- 1822 - Charles-Théophile Gaudin was born in Petit-Château, Switzerland.
- 1922 - Charles Repenning was born in Oak Park, Illinois, USA.
- 1924 - Santiago Roth died.
- 1953 - Paul E. Olsen was born in New Jersey, USA.
August 5:
- 1865 - Leslie Reginald Cox died at age 67.
- 1870 - Edward Alexander Newell Arber was born in London.
Oldest Near-Complete Acanthodian: The First Vertebrate from the Silurian Bertie Formation Konservat-Lagerstätte, Ontario
Carole J. Burrow, David Rudkin
published 05 Aug 2014
August 6:
- 1888 - William Hellier Baily died in Dublin, Ireland.
- 1911 - Florentino Ameghino died of complications related to diabetes in Buenos Aires, Argentina at age 56.
- 1997 - Samuel Paul Welles died.
August 7:
- 1898 - James Hall died in Bethlehem, New Hampshire, USA at age 86.
August 8:
- 1833 - During the second voyage of the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin rode inland from the Rio Negro area of Argentina with gauchos.
- 1857 - Henry Fairfield Osborn was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.
- 1909 - Joseph Frederick Whiteaves died in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada at age 73.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Influence of Skull Reconstructions and Intraspecific Variability in Studies of Cranial Morphometrics in Theropods and Basal Saurischians
Christian Foth, Oliver W. M. Rauhut
published 08 Aug 2013
August 9:
- 1813 - William Fox was born in Cumberland, England.
Convergent Evolution in Aquatic Tetrapods: Insights from an Exceptional Fossil Mosasaur
Johan Lindgren, Michael W. Caldwell, Takuya Konishi, Luis M. Chiappe
published 09 Aug 2010
Assessing Arboreal Adaptations of Bird Antecedents: Testing the Ecological Setting of the Origin of the Avian Flight Stroke
T. Alexander Dececchi, Hans C. E. Larsson
published 09 Aug 2011
Lujiatun Psittacosaurids: Understanding Individual and Taphonomic Variation Using 3D Geometric Morphometrics
Brandon P. Hedrick, Peter Dodson
published 09 Aug 2013
August 10:
- 1886 - George Busk died in London, England at age 78.
A Subadult Specimen of Rubeosaurus ovatus (Dinosauria: Ceratopsidae), with Observations on Other Ceratopsids from the Two Medicine Formation
Andrew T. McDonald
published 10 Aug 2011
Variation, Variability, and the Origin of the Avian Endocranium: Insights from the Anatomy of Alioramus altai (Theropoda: Tyrannosauroidea)
Gabe S. Bever, Stephen L. Brusatte, Amy M. Balanoff, Mark A. Norell
published 10 Aug 2011
Earliest Example of a Giant Monitor Lizard (Varanus, Varanidae, Squamata)
Jack L. Conrad, Ana M. Balcarcel, Carl M. Mehling
published 10 Aug 2012
August 11:
- 1799 - Joachim Barrande was born in Saugues, France.
- 1817 - Benjamin Franklin Mudge was born in Orrington, Maine, USA.
- 1943 - Frederick Schram was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
August 12:
- 1807 - George Busk was born in St Petersburg, Russian Empire.
- 1833 - During the second voyage of the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin met General Juan Manuel de Rosas, who was on a punitive expedition against local natives, and received permission to continue his expedition.
- 1857 - William Conybeare died in Itchen Stoke, England.
- 2005 - Jack A. Wolfe died.
Scales and Tooth Whorls of Ancient Fishes Challenge Distinction between External and Oral ‘Teeth’
Qingming Qu, Sophie Sanchez, Henning Blom, Paul Tafforeau, Per Erik Ahlberg
published 12 Aug 2013
August 13:
- 1946 - Ashton F. Embry was born.
- 2014 -
Titanosaur Osteoderms from the Upper Cretaceous of Lo Hueco (Spain) and Their Implications on the Armor of Laurasian Titanosaurs
Daniel Vidal, Francisco Ortega, José Luis Sanz
published 13 Aug 2014
Fenglu Han and others described the new ankylosaurid genus and species Chuanqilong chaoyangensis from the Lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of China
August 14:
- 1834 - Charles Darwin, during the second voyage of the HMS Beagle, embarked on horseback up the Andes near Valparaiso, Chile.
- 1856 - William Buckland died of tuberculosis in Islip, England at age 72.
- 1869 - Mignon Talbot was born in Iowa City, Iowa, USA.
- 1873 - Léon Pervinquière was born in La Roche-sur-Yon, France.
- 1929 - Osvaldo Reig was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Inter-Vertebral Flexibility of the Ostrich Neck: Implications for Estimating Sauropod Neck Flexibility
Matthew J. Cobley, Emily J. Rayfield, Paul M. Barrett
published 14 Aug 2013
August 15:
- 1815 - Alexander Keyserling was born in Kabile parish.
- 1914 - Alfred R. Loeblich Jr was born in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
- 2010 - Andre Keyser died of cancer in Pretoria, South Africa.
August 16:
- 1848 - William Jacob Holland was born in Jamaica.
- 1887 - Julius von Haast died in Christchurch, New Zealand.
August 17:
- 1834 - Charles Darwin, during the second voyage of the HMS Beagle, spent the day at the summit of Cerro La Campana in Chile.
- 1836 - The HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin on its second voyage, departed Bahia, Brazil to finally head home.
- 1909 - Earl Douglass of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History discovered a series of eight articulated Apatosaurus tail vertebrae in Utah, USA.
- 1978 - John Marwick died in Hastings, New Zealand.
August 18:
- 1917 - Charles Eugène Bertrand died.
- 2004 - Helen Niña Tappan Loeblich died in Anaheim, California, USA at age 86.
August 19:
- 2015 - Aude Cincotta and others published the results of two censuses of the French Velaux-La Bastide Neuve fossil site in PLoS ONE. They reconstructed it as a late Campanian floodplain home to creatures like Atsinganosaurus, crocodilians, pterosaurs, hybodonts, and bony fish.
August 20:
- 1857 -
August 21:
- 1833 - During the second voyage of the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin revisited the fossil sites near Punta Alta, Argentina that he studied the previous year.
New Insights into Non-Avian Dinosaur Reproduction and Their Evolutionary and Ecological Implications: Linking Fossil Evidence to Allometries of Extant Close Relatives
Jan Werner, Eva Maria Griebeler
published 21 Aug 2013
- 2015 - A man named Stjepan Sucec discovered a megalodon tooth while hunting for shells in the Kupa River near Pokupsko, Croatia. Sucec's megalodon was once an inhabitant of the region's Miocene-Pliocene Pannonian Sea.
August 22:
- 1832 - The HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin on its second voyage, departed from Cape San Antonio, Argentina to survey the South American coast.
August 23:
- 1769 - Georges Cuvier was born in Montbéliard, France.
- 1833 - Giovanni Capellini was born in La Spezia, Italy.
- 1947 - Clive Forster-Cooper died.
- 1990 - Mirko Malez died in Zagreb, Croatia at age 65.
- 2003 - Pierre Hupé died in Paris, France.
August 24:
- 1824 - Antonio Stoppani was born in Lecco, Italy.
- 1831 - August Henslow wrote a letter to Charles Darwin urging him to take the supernumerary naturalist position aboard the HMS Beagle, which was being prepared for its second voyage.
- 1954 - James Kirkland was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts, USA.
- 2011 - Leonid Petrovich Tatarinov died in Moscow, Russia.
A New Ankylosaurid Dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous (Kirtlandian) of New Mexico with Implications for Ankylosaurid Diversity in the Upper Cretaceous of Western North America
Victoria M. Arbour, Michael E. Burns, Robert M. Sullivan, Spencer G. Lucas, Amanda K. Cantrell, Joshua Fry, Thomas L. Suazo
published 24 Sep 2014
August 25:
- 1911 - André Leroi-Gourhan was born in Paris, France.
- 1917 - Alfred Nicholson Leeds died.
- 1943 - Niles Eldredge was born.
Estimating Impact Forces of Tail Club Strikes by Ankylosaurid Dinosaurs
Victoria Megan Arbour
published 25 Aug 2009
- 2013 - Rajko Pavlovec died in Ljubljana, Slovenia at age 81.
August 26:
- 1881 - Alice Wilson was born in Cobourg, Ontario, Canada.
- 1957 - Joseph Tyrrell died in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at age 98.
A New Mass Mortality of Juvenile Protoceratops and Size-Segregated Aggregation Behaviour in Juvenile Non-Avian Dinosaurs
David W. E. Hone, Andrew A. Farke, Mahito Watabe, Suzuki Shigeru, Khishigjav Tsogtbaatar
published 26 Nov 2014
August 27:
- 1855 - Jane Longstaff was born in Carlisle, England.
- 1947 - Robert R. Reisz was born in Oradea, Romania.
- 1948 - Louis L. Jacobs was born.
- 1962 - Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan was born.
August 28:
- 1914 - Frank Peabody was born.
- 1939 - Jere H. Lipps was born in Los Angeles, California, USA.
August 29:
- 1831 - Charles Darwin's father, Robert, temporarily convinced him not to join the planned second voyage of the Beagle.
- 1930 - Gundolf Ernst was born in Hamburg, Germany.
- 1959 - Alexey Bystrow died.
Martharaptor greenriverensis, a New Theropod Dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Utah
Phil Senter, James I. Kirkland, Donald D. DeBlieux
published 29 Aug 2012
Abdominal Contents from Two Large Early Cretaceous Compsognathids (Dinosauria: Theropoda) Demonstrate Feeding on Confuciusornithids and Dromaeosaurids
Lida Xing, Phil R. Bell, W. Scott Persons, Shuan Ji, Tetsuto Miyashita, Michael E. Burns, Qiang Ji, Philip J. Currie
published 29 Aug 2012
August 30:
- 1831 - At his father's bidding, Charles Darwin penned a letter to August Henslow, declining the offer of a supernumerary position aboard the HMS Beagle, which was then being prepared for its second voyage. He would change his mind and accept the offer the next day.
- 1910 - Carlos de Paula Couto was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
- 1918 - Samuel Wendell Williston died in Chicago, Illinois, USA at age 67.
August 31:
- 1809 - Oswald Heer was born in Nieder-Utzwyl, Switzerland.
- 1815 - Heinrich Ernst Beyrich was born in Berlin, Germany.