The mastodon–an Ice Age cousin of today’s elephants–is an icon of North American paleontology. Known to science for over 200 years, and…

The word “Madagascar” conjures up images of lemurs and baobob trees—indeed, a great portion of vertebrate paleontological research has pursued questions on…

Happy New Year! As we look forward to 2019’s paleontology discoveries, let’s also look back upon some of the open access dinosaurs…

Coprolites, a fancy term for fossilized poo, are commonly highlighted by paleontologists for pure shock value and bad pun potential (“Protect Rare…

Museum collections are a core resource of paleontology, far beyond their role in providing fossils for exhibits. Collections, with their fossils and…

I’m a huge anatomy geek, and love papers that figure and describe the nooks and crannies of skulls. The increasingly widespread use…

Continuing our march through the Top 10 Open Access Fossil Taxa of 2017… Today’s marsupials are almost entirely a southern hemisphere phenomenon–other than…

Continuing our march through the Top 10 Open Access Fossil Taxa of 2017… We’re now in the top five, as determined by…

The word “Mesozoic” makes most people think of dinosaurs, and that’s not a bad thought. But, the first chunk of the Mesozoic, the…

We’re continuing with our countdown of the Top 10 Open Access Fossil Taxa of 2017…here in the Number Nine Slot, we’ve got…

The big moment is finally here! With 669 votes cast from around the world, we have our Top 10 Open Access Fossil Taxa…

Every species on Earth has a story. My job as a paleontologist is to read and retell that story, so that we have a…