Portal:Paleontology/On this day/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