Lead image: Newly re-described Atopodentatus unicus (Image copyright: Y . Chen, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology)
Papers:
- Inferring growth strategies and lifestyles using palaeohistology in extinct crocodylian ancestors (Open Access in PLOS ONE)
- A reappraisal of Polyptychodon (Plesiosauria) from the Cretaceous of England (Open Access in PeerJ)
- First nimravid skull from Asia (Open Access in Science Reports)
- Assessment of available anatomical characters for linking living mammals to fossil taxa in phylogenetic analyses (Open Access in Biology Letters)
- The earliest herbivorous marine reptile and its remarkable jaw apparatus (Open Access in Science Advances)
- Morphometric variation of extant platyrrhine molars: taxonomic implications for fossil platyrrhines (Open Access in PeerJ)
- A review and phylogeny of Scarabaeine dung beetle fossils (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae), with the description of two Canthochilum species from Dominican amber (Open Access in PeerJ)
- The first hominin from the early Pleistocene paleocave of Haasgat, South Africa (Open Access in PeerJ)
News:
- Dinosaur-era fossils unearthed in Antarctica (via CBS News)
Around the Blogosphere:
- Sometimes new dinosaurs are discovered while on a ‘relief break’ in the desert.. (Discover Magazine)
- Turtle Power! The complicated history and natural history of a giant Pleistocene Tortoise. (Reptilis)
- The story behind the skull of Old Man Mastodon (Valley of the Mastodon)
- Oldest Known Plant-Eating Marine Reptile Had A Bizarre ‘Hammerhead’ Mouth (Shaena Montanari)
- Whatever The Hell This Thing Is: A Primer (Waxing Paleontological)
- Vintage Dinosaur Art: Animals of the Past Stamps – Part 2 (Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs)
- What evidential role should (ancient) DNA play in paleoanthropology? (Extinct Blog)
- Many paths lead to a career in vertebrate paleontology (Society of Vertebrate Paleontology)
- So you want to hire a science illustrator (Glendon Mellow)
- Developing paleontology in Chile: A new Master’s Degree in Paleontology at the Universidad Austral (Society of Vertebrate Paleontology)
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Sarah Z. Gibson 