On this day in March
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March 1:
- 1457 -
March 2:
- 1791 - Philippe-Charles Schmerling was born in Delft, Netherlands.
- 1957 - Leonard Frank Spath died.
March 3:
- 1800 - Heinrich Georg Bronn was born in Ziegelhausen, Germany.
- 1960 - Julian P. Hume was born in Ashford, England.
- 2002 - Henry Nathaniel Andrews died in Concord, New Hampshire at age 91.
- 2008 - Malcolm McKenna was born in Boulder, Colorado, USA at age 76.
March 4:
- 1853 - Christian Leopold von Buch died in Berlin, Prussia at age 78.
Bird-Like Anatomy, Posture, and Behavior Revealed by an Early Jurassic Theropod Dinosaur Resting Trace
Andrew R. C. Milner, Jerald D. Harris, Martin G. Lockley, James I. Kirkland, Neffra A. Matthews
published 04 Mar 2009
March 5:
- 1834 - Charles Darwin and the rest of the crew of the second voyage of the HMS Beagle returned to the missionary outpost they established. They found a native they attempted to civilize had returned to his previous ways.
- 1933 - Keith Holmes was born in Penrith, New South Wales, Australia.
- 1936 - Yuri Alexandrovich Popov was born in Moscow, USSR.
Torvosaurus gurneyi n. sp., the Largest Terrestrial Predator from Europe, and a Proposed Terminology of the Maxilla Anatomy in Nonavian Theropods
Christophe Hendrickx, Octávio Mateus
published 05 Mar 2014
Lapita Diet in Remote Oceania: New Stable Isotope Evidence from the 3000-Year-Old Teouma Site, Efate Island, Vanuatu
Rebecca Kinaston, Hallie Buckley, Frederique Valentin, Stuart Bedford, Matthew Spriggs, Stuart Hawkins, Estelle Herrscher
published 05 Mar 2014
March 6:
- 1915 - Eberhard Fraas died of dysentary contracted during field work in German East Africa in Stuttgart, Germany.
Dinosaur Footprints and Other Ichnofauna from the Cretaceous Kem Kem Beds of Morocco
Nizar Ibrahim, David J. Varricchio, Paul C. Sereno, Jeff A. Wilson, Didier B. Dutheil, David M. Martill, Lahssen Baidder, Samir Zouhri
published 06 Mar 2014
March 7:
- 1857 -
March 8:
- 1877 - James Scott Bowerbank died in St Leonards-on-Sea, England at age 79.
- 1938 - Andre Keyser was born in Pretoria, South Africa.
First Evidence of Reproductive Adaptation to “Island Effect” of a Dwarf Cretaceous Romanian Titanosaur, with Embryonic Integument In Ovo
Gerald Grellet-Tinner, Vlad Codrea, Annelise Folie, Alessandra Higa, Thierry Smith
published 08 Mar 2012
March 9:
- 1847 - Mary Anning died of breast cancer in Lyme Regis, Dorset at age 47. Alfred Nicholson Leeds was born in Eyebury, England.
- 1998 - Colin Patterson died of a heart attack in London, England.
- 2013 - Larry Martin died of cancer at age 69.
March 10:
- 1830 - Eugène Eudes-Deslongchamps was born in Caen, France.
- 1905 - Bryan Patterson was born in London, England.
March 11:
- 1874 - Charles W. Gilmore was born.
- 1960 - Roy Chapman Andrews died in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California at age 76.
- 2011 - Osvaldo Rodrigues da Cunha died in Belém, Brazil.
March 12:
- 1784 - William Buckland was born in Axminster, England.
- 1818 - Frederik Johnstrup was born in Christianshavn, Denmark.
- 1888 - Walter Hermann Bucher was born in Akron, Ohio, USA.
- 1928 - Wilhelm von Branca died in Munich, Germany.
- 1968 - Michael P. Taylor was born in Bishop's Stortford, England.
An Ornithomimid (Dinosauria) Bonebed from the Late Cretaceous of Alberta, with Implications for the Behavior, Classification, and Stratigraphy of North American Ornithomimids
Thomas M. Cullen, Michael J. Ryan, Claudia Schröder-Adams, Philip J. Currie, Yoshitsugu Kobayashi
published 12 Mar 2013
A Diminutive New Tyrannosaur from the Top of the World
Anthony R. Fiorillo, Ronald S. Tykoski
published 12 Mar 2014
March 13:
- 1885 - Wilhelm Dunker died in Marburg, Germany.
- 1949 - Philip J. Currie was born in Brampton, Ontario, Canada.
- 1992 - Osvaldo Reig died.
Turning Semicircular Canal Function on Its Head: Dinosaurs and a Novel Vestibular Analysis
Justin A. Georgi, Justin S. Sipla, Catherine A. Forster
published 13 Mar 2013
- 2015 - Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska died in Poland.
March 14:
March 15:
- 1872 - François Jules Pictet de la Rive died.
- 1923 - Josef Victor Rohon died.
- 2005 - Miklós Kretzoi died.
March 16:
- 1822 - Charles M. Wheatley was born in Chipping Ongar, England.
- 1834 - The HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin on its second voyage, returned to the Falkland Islands to help suppress a native rebellion.
- 1850 - Alexander Bittner was born in Friedland, Czech Republic.
- 1985 - Archibald Lamont died.
March 17:
- 1869 - Józef Grzybowski was born in Kraków, Poland.
- 1882 - George William Stow died of heart failure in Heilbron, South Africa.
March 18:
- 1899 - Othniel Charles Marsh died in New Haven, Connecticut, USA at age 67.
March 19:
- 2002 - Eduard Meine van Zinderen-Bakker died of a stroke in Somerset West, South Africa.
Early Triassic Marine Biotic Recovery: The Predators' Perspective
Torsten M. Scheyer, Carlo Romano, Jim Jenks, Hugo Bucher
published 19 Mar 2014
The Earliest Colubroid-Dominated Snake Fauna from Africa: Perspectives from the Late Oligocene Nsungwe Formation of Southwestern Tanzania
Jacob A. McCartney, Nancy J. Stevens, Patrick M. O’Connor
published 19 Mar 2014
A New Large-Bodied Oviraptorosaurian Theropod Dinosaur from the Latest Cretaceous of Western North America
Matthew C. Lamanna, Hans-Dieter Sues, Emma R. Schachner, Tyler R. Lyson
published 19 Mar 2014
March 20:
- 1934 - Francis Arthur Bather died.
- 1946 - Amadeus William Grabau died of an internal hemorrhage in Peking, China at age 76.
- 1949 - James Chatters was born.
March 21:
- 1835 - Charles Darwin during the second voyage of the HMS Beagle, embarked on another voyage up the Andes near Valparaiso, Chile.
- 1972 - Louise Leakey was born in Nairobi, Kenya.
New Information on the Cranial Anatomy of Acrocanthosaurus atokensis and Its Implications for the Phylogeny of Allosauroidea (Dinosauria: Theropoda)
Drew R. Eddy, Julia A. Clarke
published 21 Mar 2011
March 22:
- 1875 - Friedrich von Huene was born in Tübingen, Germany.
- 1901 - Harold John Finlay was born in Comilla, India.
- 1907 - Pierre Hupé was born in Baye, France.
- 1935 - Luigi Piacenza was born in Bussolengo, Italy.
- 1987 - Gustava Kahler died .
March 23:
- 1946 - Philip D. Gingerich was born in Iowa, USA.
March 24:
- 1868 - Edward Drinker Cope gave a presentation to a meeting of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia reporting his description of a giant plesiosaur from Kansas, USA that he named Elasmosaurus platyurus.
- 1916 - Harry B. Whittington was born in Birmingham, England.
- 1945 - Robert T. Bakker was born in Bergen County, New Jersey, USA.
- 1963 - Ethel Currie died in Glasgow, Scotland.
A New Basal Sauropodomorph Dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic Navajo Sandstone of Southern Utah
Joseph J. W. Sertich, Mark A. Loewen
published 24 Mar 2010
March 25:
- 1963 - Elmer S. Riggs died in Sedan, Kansas, USA at age 94.
- 1982 - Sterling Nesbitt was born in Mesa, Arizona, USA.
- 2015 - Laura Domingo, Fernando Barroso-Barcenilla, and Oscar Cambra-Moo studied the climate and ecology of the Late Cretaceous Lo Hueco site in Spain using the δ18O oxygen isotopes of the fossils preserved there.
March 26:
- 1831 - Eugène Renevier was born in Lausanne, Switzerland.
- 1946 - Gerhard Heilmann died.
- 2002 - Elaine Anderson died in Denver, Colorado.
March 27:
- 1935 - Viera Scheibner was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia.
Global Taxonomic Diversity of Living Reptiles
Daniel Pincheira-Donoso, Aaron M. Bauer, Shai Meiri, Peter Uetz
published 27 Mar 2013
March 28:
- 1824 - Jules Haime was born in Tours, France.
- 1861 - Auguste Bravard died in Mendoza, Argentina.
- 1869 - Jaroslav Perner was born in Týnec nad Labem.
The Ontogenetic Osteohistology of Tenontosaurus tilletti
Sarah Werning
published 28 Mar 2012
Reassessment of the Evidence for Postcranial Skeletal Pneumaticity in Triassic Archosaurs, and the Early Evolution of the Avian Respiratory System
Richard J. Butler, Paul M. Barrett, David J. Gower
published 28 Mar 2012
March 29:
- 1947 - William Berryman Scott died at age 88.
March 30:
- 1857 -
March 31:
- 1759 - Adriaan Gilles Camper was born.
- 1831 - Angelo Heilprin was born in Sátoraljaújhely, Kingdom of Hungary.
- 1850 - Charles Doolittle Walcott was born in New York Mills, New York, USA.
- 1882 - Dmitrii Mushketov was born in St Petersburg, Russia.
- 1887 - George Bax Holmes died.
- 1902 - Alexander Bittner died in Vienna, Austria.
- 1907 - Brian John Marples was born in Hessle, England.
- 2008 - Halszka Osmólska died in Poland.