Although we can directly weigh modern birds, we can’t do this with extinct birds–and we need to know body mass to understand…

“How heavy was it?” Body mass is not just an intuitive way to compare the size of animals, but it’s also critical…

After a long journey through the millennia, fossils inevitably arrive in the present as damaged goods. Bacteria, scavengers, erosion, wind, rain, and…

In the last few months, a lot has been going around about a pretty interesting topic—dino sex. Besides the mechanics of dinosaur…

This week and next at PLOS Blogs, we are doing a focus on climate change. This is leading up to a great…

Finite element analysis, or FEA, is a computer modeling technique that lets researchers simulate how structures “behave” under various conditions. For instance…

With yesterday’s publication of the paper describing and naming the dinosaur Dahalokely, one stage of a loooong research journey has reached its end…

When we think of Madagascar, its unique wildlife immediately springs to mind. Around 95 percent of the terrestrial animals on this island…

The growth of Open Access has increased the pool of digital information that is available for Text Mining. This relatively new interdisciplinary…

For a long time now, I’ve been beating the drum of “provide your data.” If you’re willing to take take a whole…

For my inaugural post here at The Integrative Paleontologists, I am going to discuss a recent paper in PLOS ONE that highlights…

Most of us are pretty familiar with frogs and salamanders, but many outside the world of natural history buffs have not heard…