Featured image: A new pterosaur was the size of a housecat, published this week in Royal Society Open Science. Image courtesy Mark…
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Fossil Friday Roundup Fossil Friday Roundup: September 2, 2016
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PLOS ONE Finding Nemo, Paleozoic Style
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…
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Fossil Friday Roundup Fossil Friday Roundup: August 26, 2016
Featured image: Palaeobatrachus diluvianus (GOLDFUSS, 1831). Holotype (STIPB-Goldfuss-1343) deposited in Goldfuss Museum, Steinmann- Institut für Geologie, Mineralogie und Paläontologie…
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Fossil Friday Roundup Fossil Friday Roundup: August 19th, 2016
Featured image: Paleontologists prepare to remove a Tyrannosaurus rex skull from a fossil dig site in northern Montana and transport it to the Burke Museum…
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Fossil Friday Roundup Fossil Friday Roundup: August 12, 2016
Featured image: The Piltdown Man is back in the headlines this week! Above: Group portrait of the Piltdown skull being examined. Back row (from…
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Fossil Friday Roundup Fossil Friday Roundup: August 5, 2016
Featured image: Australovenator attacking a Muttaburrasaurus. Artwork by Travis R. Tischler. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.2312/fig-1 Papers (all Open Access): An examination of feeding ecology in Pleistocene…
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Fossil Friday Roundup Fossil Friday Roundup: July 29, 2016
Featured image: Statues of Iguanodon and Megalosaurus on display at the Natural History Museum in London. Photo by Sarah Gibson. Papers (all Open…
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Fossil Friday Roundup Fossil Friday Roundup: July 22, 2016
Featured image: Murusraptor barrosaensis, which lived about 80 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period. (Courtesy: Jan Sovak) Papers (all Open Access)…
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Fossil Friday Roundup Fossil Friday Roundup: July 15th, 2016
Featured Image: A pair of Gualicho dinosaurs pursuing prey. Image courtesy Jorge Gonzalez and Pablo Lara/PA Happy Fossil Friday! One quick announcement, the PLOS…
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Interview Getting in the Head of Euparkeria: An Interview with Gabriela Sobral
To understand a group of organisms, you have to start at their very beginning. The name “archosaur” translates as “ruling reptiles”, and…
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Fossil Friday Roundup Fossil Friday Roundup: July 8, 2016
Featured Image: U.S. Forest Service paleontologist Bruce Schumacher jacketing a mammoth tibia discovered in July 2015 in San Isabel National Forest. Image courtesy…
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Dinosaurs Chew on this! Mammal-like mastication for the dinosaur Leptoceratops
We all chew, but hardly ever think about it. Even a moment’s consideration, though, reveals how complex of a process it actually…