Portal:Paleontology/On this day/October 20
October 20:[edit]
- 1835 - The HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin on its second voyage, departed the Galapagos Islands for Tahiti. Darwin noticed that every species of mockingbird he collected came from a different island and that all were similar to the mockingbirds of mainland Chile.
- 1864 - Andrew Geddes Bain died of a heart attack in Cape Town, South Africa at age 67.
- 1869 - John Campbell Merriam was born in Hopkinton, Iowa, USA.
- 1882 - Leonard Frank Spath was born.
- 1884 - An Early Jurassic prosauropod specimen was discovered in a Manchester Connecticut, USA quarry. Workers noticed the pelvis and hindlimb of the animal after the block hypothesized to preserve the front half of the animal had already been used to build a bridge in South Manchester. Othniel Charles Marsh named the animal Anchisaurus major.
- 1910 - David P. Penhallow died on the S.S. Lake Manitoba during a voyage from Montreal to Liverpool, England.
The Effects of Biting and Pulling on the Forces Generated during Feeding in the Komodo Dragon (Varanus komodoensis)
Domenic C. D'Amore, Karen Moreno, Colin R. McHenry, Stephen Wroe
published 20 Oct 2011