Viewed solely on its cinematic merits, few are likely to evaluate Andrew Niccol’s film Gattaca as great art. As a vehicle for stimulating debate about serious social and moral issues, however, it shows up well against Independence Day, Jurassic Park, and most other attempts to translate science fiction onto the big screen. Relying heavily on less than subtle imagery (the staircase which the par...

ll science involves what we might call "art" in the sense of requiring intuition, creativity, and inspiration (whether to grasp the underlying causal connection between seemingly unrelated observations or to construct an elegant experimental design). But in a few disciplines, science also closely intermingles with the fine arts, such as painting and sculpture. Dinosaur study is one such discipl...

Jurassic deposits are discovered in the Shahreza area, southwest of Isfahan city, central Iran. They yield plant macrofossils belonging to 22 species assigned to 17 genera of various orders such as Equisetales, Filicales, Bennettitales, Cycadales, Ginkgoales and Coniferales. According to the occurrence of Annulariopsis simpsonii, Coniopteris hymenophylloides, Cladophlebis aktashensis, Nilssonia...

Nannotanyderus oliviae sp. nov. from the Lower Jurassic (Sinemurian) of England, the oldest representative of family Tanyderidae, is described and illustrated. 

The holotype of the thalattosuchian Machimosaurus hugii von Meyer, 1837 from the Lower Kimmeridgian strata of Soleure, Switzerland has been erected on the basis of teeth. Due to their characteristic morphology bearing a set of pronounced vertical ridges on the enamel surface, the genus Machimosaurus von Meyer, 1837 is easily recognizable in Late Jurassic strata of Europe (Sauvage & Li nard 1879...

middle jurassic (bajocian-bathonian) sphenophyta fossils of the silicified level peats of the pabdana coal mine (kerman) recovered. four new species of sphenophyta described for the first time. they include equisetites pabdanaii sp. nov., equisetites sparseii sp. nov., equisetites hojedkii sp. nov. and equisetites irregularii sp. nov.,. descriptions of the above mentioned new species has been d...

BACKGROUND Marine deposits from the Callovian of Europe have yielded numerous species of metriorhynchid crocodylomorphs. While common in English and French Formations, metriorhynchids are poorly known from the Iberian Peninsula. Twenty years ago an incomplete, but beautifully preserved, skull was discovered from the Middle Callovian of Spain. It is currently the oldest and best preserved metrio...