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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