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PLOS ONE Old Man of the Sea: Ancient Alabaman sea turtle ancestorRead more
This was originally published by PLOS Research News on April 18, 2018, by Beth Baker. The original post can be found here. If…
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Humans and Primates Footprints in the Sand: What ancient human footprints on Canada’s shoreline reveal about migration to North AmericaRead more
This was originally published by PLOS Research News on March 28, 2018, by Beth Baker. The original post can be found here. Human…
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Interview Dolphin Discovery: New Oligocene dolphin species found in EcuadorRead more
This article was written by Tessa Gregory and first appeared at PLOS Research News on December 20, 2017. The authors of a recent…
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Mammals Top 10 Open Access Fossil Taxa of 2017: Anatoliadelphys maasaeRead more
Continuing our march through the Top 10 Open Access Fossil Taxa of 2017… Today’s marsupials are almost entirely a southern hemisphere phenomenon–other than…
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Interview Author Interview: Bobby Boessenecker on the early dolphin AlbertocetusRead more
Today, a new paper describing new fossils of an early dolphin, Albertocetus, was published in PLOS ONE. This animal was named several years back, and…
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From the community Mollusc-Munching Marine Monster: First Jurassic ichthyosaur found in IndiaRead more
This interview with Guntupalli Prasad was published October 25, 2017, by Beth Baker at PLOS Research News. In a new PLOS ONE…
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Humans and Primates Oldest direct evidence of humans in the Americas?Read more
Featured Image Credit: Nick Poole and Thomas Spamberg, Liquid Junge Lab. CC-BY. When did humans really arrive in the Americas? It has been…
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Dinosaurs Waddling through duck-bill skullsRead more
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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Dinosaurs PLOS Paleo Top 10 OA Fossil Vertebrates #1: Gualicho shinyaeRead more
We’ve made it! Coming in at #1 is an absolutely amazing dinosaur published this summer in PLOS ONE. Congratulations to Gualicho shinyae, the didactyl…
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Interview Veggievore Fish of the TriassicRead more
Fish have a bit of a boring reputation among many vertebrate paleontologists–too many bones, too hard to identify, not as charismatic as…
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Climate Change Is a saber-tooth cat’s roar worse than its bite?Read more
Maybe….if it’s cold outside. When the climate changes, organisms change with it. Environmental stresses can impact an organism by limiting ideal living…