Fossil Friday Roundup: January 6, 2017
Featured Image: 3D printout of the Dwykaselachus brain case. Image courtesy University of Chicago. For more info, see first article under News
Happy New Year everyone!
Papers (All Open Access):
- The Importance of International Collaborations to Advance Research Endeavors (PLOS ONE)
- Body size–trophic position relationships among fishes of the lower Mekong basin (RSOS)
- Dinosaur incubation periods directly determined from growth-line counts in embryonic teeth show reptilian-grade development (PNAS)
- A cryptic record of Burgess Shale-type diversity from the early Cambrian of Baltica (Palaeontology)
News:
- 280 Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals Origins of Chimaeroid Fishes (Link)
- NASA Scientists Come To Dinosaur Provincial Park (Link)
- Fossil fuel formation: Key to atmosphere’s oxygen? (Link)
- South American fossil tomatillos show nightshades evolved earlier than thought (Link)
- South Texas fossil could be reptile that swam 90M years ago (Link)
- Pitt owns 6,000 acres of fossils, artifacts and inspiration in Wyoming (Link)
- Bones In Belgium Cave Prove Neanderthals Were Cannibals: Why Extinct Human Relative Practiced Cannibalism (Link)
- Study of Extinct Seabirds Reflects Climate Change in OC, California (Link)
Community Events and Society Updates:
- Webinar: Paleontological Resources Preservation Act of 2009 (PRPA), January 19, 2017 (Link)
- Paleontological Society Arthur James Boucot Research Grants (Link)
Around the Blogosphere:
- 2016 in Review (Equatorial Minnesota)
- My talk on copyright, from the University of Manchester’s “Open Knowledge in Higher Education” course (SV-POW)
- Review of 2016 (Raptormaniacs)
- Science, Religion, and Bad Poetry (Extinct)
- This Mesozoic Month: December 2016 (Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs)
- The Strange Case of the Minnesota Iceman (Tetrapod Zoology)
- Beware over-interpreting photos of fossils (SV-POW)
- Avian Evolution (Raptormaniacs)
- My year in review – bring on 2017! (Musings of a Clumsy Paleontologist)
- Underwhelming fossil fish of the Month December 2016 (UCL Blogs)
- Bears Ears Bibliography (Prehistoric Pub)
- Paleo Profile: The Northern Nasutoceratopsian (Laelaps)
- The Little Butts from Iowa (Laelaps)
- Red Canyon; Fossils and Silence (Prehistoric Pub)
- Help Save Dinosaur Ridge!!! (Prehistoric Pub)
- Open sourcing Lucy, the world’s most famous fossil (Ars Technica)
- Richard Fallon, Popularization, and Paleoart: Then and Now (Popularizing Palaeontology)
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