PLOS announced today that after an extensive search, Dr. Joerg Heber has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of PLOS ONE. Heber will be responsible…

As the parent of a three-year-old, I am quite familiar with the animated film Finding Nemo. These adventures of the young clownfish Nemo are of course heavily…

South America has proven very lucrative in the last few decades when it comes to new theropod dinosaur discoveries from the Late…

The development of farming was a key milestone in human history, but as a species we were quite late to the party. Insects got…

Featured image above courtesy Mario Quiñones Faúndez May has been a spectacularly busy month. And a lot of awesome research was recently…

Salamanders are fairly adorable, but often forgotten, animals. Because their skeletons are pretty delicate, the fossil record for this group is spotty, with many…

Ouch! That word came to mind a lot while reading a new paper published today in PLOS ONE. In the new paper…

Several years ago, back when I was working as the lab and collections manager for the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site in…

This article was originally published January 11, 2016 by Rebecca Hofland over at the PLOS EveryONE blog, a member of the PLOS Blogs…

This article was originally posted by PLOS Paleo editor Jon Tennant over at Discover Magazine on January 11, 2016, featuring a paper published last week…

With the successful launch of the PLOS Paleo Community*, it seems like a good time to concentrate all of the awesomeness of…

If you eat red meat, you’ve probably eaten a ruminant. This group of hoofed mammals includes our domesticated cattle and sheep, as…