Featured Image:Triassic archosauromorph tracks from the Catalan Pyrenees. From Mujal et al. (2017) Papers (All Open Access): Problems related to the taxonomic…
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Fossil Friday Roundup Fossil Friday Roundup: April 21, 2017
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Interview Author Interview: Matt Borths on the newly named fossil mammal Masrasector nananubis (and the possibility that he accidentally unleashed an ancient evil upon paleontology)
Ancient mammals were weird. And it wasn’t the “super-size and add saber teeth” kind of weird, either. Mammalian evolutionary history is full of…
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Fossil Friday Roundup Fossil Friday Roundup: April 14, 2017
Featured Image: Reconstruction of Teleocrater rhadinus in a Middle Triassic scene. Artwork by Mark Witton. From Nesbitt et al (2017), see press release here…
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Dinosaurs Waddling through duck-bill skulls
The duck-billed dinosaurs (hadrosaurs) may not be as glamorous as tyrannosaurs (and most tyrannosaur researchers sure don’t respect these “Cretaceous food items&rdquo…
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Fossil Friday Roundup Fossil Friday Roundup: April 7, 2017
Featured Image: Edmontosaurus reconstruction from Xing et al. 2017, published this past week in PLOS ONE. Papers (All Open Access): Fossils matter: improved…
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Fossil Friday Roundup Fossil Friday Roundup: March 24, 2017
Featured Image: Jaw of Argyromys cicigei, from López-Guerrero et al. 2017, PLOS ONE. Papers (All Open Access): Late Messinian mollusks and vertebrates from Moncucco…
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Fossil Friday Roundup Fossil Friday Roundup: March 10, 2017
Featured Image: Egg Holotype of Suchoolithus portucalensis, oogen. and oosp. nov. Specimen FCT-UNL706 from Cambelas, Assenta Member, Lourinhã Formation, Upper Jurassic. The shape and…
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post “More Complex Than Previously Thought”
The pursuit of science is an interesting beast. It’s awesome to distill our world down to a basic set of principles…laws, rules…
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Fossil Friday Roundup Fossil Friday Roundup: February 17, 2017
Featured Image: A reconstruction of Platychelys oberndorferi. Artwork by P. Röschli. From Anquetin et al (2017), first paper listed below. Papers (All Open Access): A Jurassic…
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Fossil Friday Roundup Fossil Friday Roundup: February 10, 2017
Featured Image: Bajaichthys elegans, photograph of the holotype MCSNV T.922 From Davesne et al (2017), first paper listed below. Papers (All Open Access)…
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Climate Change Extending the History of Crocs in California
If you think of crocodylians in the United States (you do think about them, don’t you?), your mind probably settles on the…
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Fossil Friday Roundup Fossil Friday Roundup: December 23, 2016
Featured Image: Triceratops ornament adorns a Christmas Tree. Ornament was purchased at The Field Museum, Image by Sarah Gibson. Happy Holidays from the PLOS Paleo…