Fossil Friday Roundup: December 30, 2016
Featured Image: An artist’s depiction of Limusaurus inextricabilis, which was found to have lost its teeth in adolescence. Art by Yu Chen. First paper.
Papers (All Open Access):
- Extreme Ontogenetic Changes in a Ceratosaurian Theropod (Current Biology)
- A cryptic record of Burgess Shale-type diversity from the early Cambrian of Baltica (Palaeontology)
News:
- Obama declares Bears Ears National Monument in southern Utah (Link)
- Triassic armored “coastal crocodile” unearthed in China (Link)
- Deer species capable of building and shedding their antlers already existed in the Miocene (Link)
Society Updates:
- Best Practice Guidelines for Repositing and Disseminating Contextual Data Associated with Vertebrates (Link)
Around the Blogosphere:
- Extinct, One Year In! (Extinct)
- 2016 Year-End Summary (Dr. Neurosaurus)
- From Argentina With Love: Top Fossils of 2016 (Letters From Gondwana)
- Top Fossils of 2016 (The Guardian)
- Christmas Edition: Geologizing with Dickens, Part II (Letters from Gondwana)
- Pew! Pew! Paleontologists Harness the Power of Lasers (Discover)
- Giant Dinosaur Discoveries of 2016 (Seeker)
- Favorite Articles of 2016, Part 1 (Everything Dinosaur)
- Mud Dragons, Tully Monsters, And Toothed Whales: The Best Paleo Art of 2016 (Motherboard)
- Top thirteen fossil stories of 2016 (Earth Archives)
- The Time 19th-Century Paleontologists Punched It Out (Laelaps)
- A Crushing Bite Gives Sea Otters Their Cute Mugs (Laelaps)
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