2013 Event Paleontologist Philip Currie reveals the fully-intact baby Chasmosaurus dinosaur fossil he excavated at Alberta's Dinosaur Provincial Park; the 72 million-year-old dinosaur is about 1.5 meters long and estimated to have been three years old when it died 2002 Death William Anthony Swithin Sarjeant, paleontologist/fantasy writer, dies at 66 1997 Death Alan Charig, paleontologist, BBC science show presenter, dies at 70 1994 Death Otto Roesch, paleontologist, dies at 93 1984 Death George S Simpson, U.S. paleontologist, dies at 82 1982 Death Gustav MR von Koenigswald, German/Dutch paleontologist, dies at 79 1977 Event Paleontologist Elso Barghoorn announces that 3.4-billion-year-old one-celled fossils, the earliest life forms, had been discovered 1964 Death Victor van Straelen, Flemish biologist/paleontologist, dies at 74 1949 Death Joseph A Cushman, U.S. paleontologist, dies at 68 1940 Death M Eugene F T Dubois, geologist/paleontologist (Wadjakmens), dies 1904 Death Karl A von Zittel, German geologist/paleontologist (Libya), dies at 64 1902 Birthday Gustav von Koenigswald, paleontologist, found Pithecanthropus erectus 1900 Birthday Otto Roesch, paleontologist 1881 Birthday Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, France, philosopher/paleontologist 1875 Birthday Othenio Able, Austria, paleontologist 1857 Birthday Henry Osborn, Conn, paleontologist/author, 52 Years of Research 1839 Birthday Karl A von Zittel, German geologist/paleontologist, Libya 1838 Birthday Alpheus Hyatt, U.S., invertebrate paleontologist 1799 Birthday Joachim de Barrande, French paleontologist/geologist
