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February 18:

 * 1839 - Harry Seeley was born in London, England.
 * 1876 - Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart died.
 * 1928 - John Ostrom was born in New York City, New York, USA.
 * 1938 - Dmitrii Mushketov died in the Great Purge of the USSR.
 * 1974 - Oliver Bulman died in Cambridge, England at age 71.
 * 2015 - Femke M. Holwerda, Diego Pol, and Oliver W. M. Rauhut demonstrated that the wrinkled texture of sauropod tooth enamel could be used to distinguish different species found in the Early - Middle Jurassic Cañadón Asfalto Formation of Argentina and possibly elsewhere. Momo Yamashita, Takuya Konishi, and Tamaki Sato published a study of the sclerotic rings of mosasaur eyes.