Some fossils are just too cool. And slightly tragic. A 48 million year old fossil from the Messel beds of Germany fits this category…
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PLOS ONE Ancient “Horse” Pregnancy Frozen in TimeRead more
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In the News PLOS Publication Costs UpdateRead more
Open Access scientific publishing makes scholarship available globally and relieves scholarly institutions from the overwhelming burden of commercial subscription fees. Because of…
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Synthetic Biology An Introduction to Start-Ups in Synthetic BiologyRead more
by Aditya Kunjapur When did you first hear the phrase “synthetic biology”? Was it many years ago, or did it just happen when…
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post How to get the latest PLOS ONE Paleo papers delivered to your inbox using the PLOS “Journal Alerts” toolRead more
PLOS ONE publishes hundreds of articles each week, and keeping up with it all is a challenge. Now you can tailor PLOS…
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Open Access Behind the Scenes at PhyloPicRead more
Open science is about more than just tossing some publications and data notebooks into the digital ether. It’s all about communication–so, at…
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Publishing Research MattersRead more
Research Matters is a new article series in which active scientists speak directly about why basic research in their field matters. It…
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Dinosaurs The Curse of the Horned Dinosaur EggRead more
Horned dinosaurs (ceratopsians) just can’t catch a break when it comes to their fossilized eggs. The first purported examples turned up in…
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post From Broca’s area to Broca’s aphasia: a tale of two eponymsRead more
In 1861, the French scientific journal Bulletin de la Societe Anatomique published an article that would prove immeasurably important to the study…
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Open Data Sharing Paleodata (Part 4): MorphoSourceRead more
Today I continue my series highlighting repositories for paleontological raw data. Previous posts in this series can be found here, here, and here…
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post Romer’s Gap and the Four-Limbed Critters of Nova ScotiaRead more
The fossil record is a window into the past, but much of that window is boarded over. This situation spurs paleontologists to look in new places…
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Dinosaurs Brontosaurus thunders back!Read more
Pretty much every person who ever read a dinosaur book or went to a natural history museum learned that Brontosaurus is just an…
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post Bringing student-driven genetics education to the university campusRead more
By: Franjo Ivankovic Biology and Anthropology, University of Florida According to the survey conducted by the Oklahoma State University this January, as…