Quote of the day
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
Colin Patterson

Born: October 13, 1933
Died: March 9, 1998 (aged 64)
Bio: Colin Patterson FRS, was a British paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London from 1962 to his official retirement in 1993 who specialised in fossil fish and systematics, advocating the transformed cladistics school.