William Buckland was a man of many achievements—most of them poop-centered. No one would be more proud of this than William Buckland. William Buckland eventually became the Dean of Westminster, an ...

When William Buckland was a kid, an undergraduate at Oxford in the late 1790s, he pulled a prank that was so rude, so smart, and so biologically... In yesterday's post, I crowned an Oxford geologist ...

Coprolites, from the Greek "kopros" and "litos" (or dung-stone), can be regarded as a variety of ichnofossils (trace fossils), defined more precisely as fossilized, large biodepositional structures, ...

It wasn't until 1824 that William Buckland, Oxford University's first professor of geology, described and named the first known dinosaur, based on a lower jaw, vertebrae and limb bones found in ...

IN the early decades of this century Geology had not established for itself an acknowledged place in the circle of the natural sciences. With as yet no settled philosophical basis, it offered a ...