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Fossil Friday Roundup: July 1, 2016
Featured Image: Leonardo the hadrosaur. Image courtesy Red Rocket Photography/The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis/Wikimedia Common (CC BY-SA 3.0) Papers (all Open Access): Eutherians experienced...
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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 U.S. Forest Service. Papers (all Open...
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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 Paleontology Community has a new...
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Beaked birds champions of the last mass extinction
A new study shows that teeth are not too good for you if you’re a dinosaur trying to not go extinct. Around 66 million years ago, a time known as the end-Cretaceous, there was a massive extinction of...
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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): New holostean fishes (Actinopterygii:...
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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 Access): Special volume dedicated to Tom Rich (Link)...
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The first crocodile ancestors
Did you know that birds and crocodiles are practically cousins? Around 230 million years ago, you wouldn’t have been able to tell the difference between the two different lineages. This is because...
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Birds of a fibula
Over the last 20 years, there has grown insurmountable evidence that birds are the direct modern descendants of dinosaurs. Eagles are dinosaurs. Pigeons are dinosaurs, annoyingly. Even penguins are...
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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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Tracking Australia’s dinosaur past
The Australian outback. Known for a few, very specific things. Kangaroos. Sand. Lots of animals that want to kill you. More sand. Paul Hogan. And dinosaurs! Some of the very best dinosaur fossils we...
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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 left): F. O. Barlow, G. Elliot Smith, Charles Dawson,...
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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 at the University of Washington. Credit: Dave...
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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, Rheinische...
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A busy year for a little dinosaur
This is a guest post by Matt Baron, a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, UK. Take a walk around the Free State of South Africa, or, if you fancy it, Lesotho (le-sOO-tOO), and you might just...
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Fossil Friday Roundup: September 2, 2016
Featured image: A new pterosaur was the size of a housecat, published this week in Royal Society Open Science. Image courtesy Mark Witton. Papers (all Open Access): Osteology of the Late Triassic...
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Fossil Friday Roundup: September 9, 2016
Featured image: A reconstruction of the Storr Lochs Monster, the most complete ichthyosaur from Scotland. Art by Todd Marshall. Papers (all Open Access): Big-headed marine crocodyliforms and why we...
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How did wombat noses evolve?
One of the great questions in life. Clearly, this had been plaguing Alana Sharp, a postdoctoral researcher from Australia, so much that she had to go out and research it for herself! In part of a...
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Brain anatomy convergence between crocodylians and their epic carnivorous...
If I ask you to think of a large, extinct carnivorous reptile, what do you think of? I’m gonna guess that pretty much all of you went straight for a T. rex, or if you’re a bit weird (or vegetarian),...
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All the better to chew you with, my dear
Hadrosaurs were the ‘duck billed’ cows of the Cretaceous. They got this reputation firstly for their unusual ‘beaked’ mouths, and secondly for their apparent ability to chew food with amazing...
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The Brazilian Titan
Sometimes the greatest dinosaur discoveries are just lying waiting to be found in a museum cupboard. Titanosaurs were some of the most enormous animals to have ever strode the Earth, moving in enormous...
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