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February 12:

 * 1790 - Jean Jacques Nicolas Huot was born in Paris, France.
 * 1815 - Edward Forbes was born in Douglas, Isle of Man.
 * 1858 - William Berryman Scott was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
 * 1859 - Samuel Stutchbury died in Bristol, England.
 * 1873 - Barnum Brown was born in Carbondale, Kansas, Kansas, USA.
 * 1900 - Carroll Lane Fenton was born in Iowa, USA.

Terrestrial Origin of Viviparity in Mesozoic Marine Reptiles Indicated by Early Triassic Embryonic Fossils

Ryosuke Motani, Da-yong Jiang, Andrea Tintori, Olivier Rieppel, Guan-bao Chen

published 12 Feb 2014


 * 2015 - Ignacio Díaz-Martínez and others published a review summarizing science's knowledge about the fossilized footprints of large ornithopod dinosaurs.