Featured image: Restoration of Bonacynodon schultzi in life by Jorge Blanco. From Martinelli et al. (2016) below.
Papers (all Open Access):
- Two New Cynodonts (Therapsida) from the Middle-Early Late Triassic of Brazil and Comments on South American Probainognathians (PLOS ONE)
- Variable wing venation in Agathiphaga (Lepidoptera: Agathiphagidae) is key to understanding the evolution of basal moths (RSOS)
- New dragonflies and damselflies from Middle Miocene deposits in SW Bulgaria (Insecta: Odonata) (PalaeoE)
- A fossil biting midge (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from early Eocene Indian amber with a complex pheromone evaporator (SciRep)
- A new elusive otodontid shark (Lamniformes: Otodontidae) from the lower Miocene, and comments on the taxonomy of otodontid genera, including the ‘megatoothed’ clade (Historical Biology)
- Young relicts and old relicts: a novel palaeoendemic vertebrate from the Australian Central Uplands (RSOS)
- Bony cranial ornamentation linked to rapid evolution of gigantic theropod dinosaurs (Nature Communications)
- Stratigraphy, mammalian paleontology, paleoecology, and age correlation of the Wasatch Formation, Fossil Butte National Monument, Wyoming (Journal of Paleontology)
- Foot pressure distributions during walking in African elephants (Loxodonta africana) (RSOS)
- Estimating shifts in diversification rates based on higher-level phylogenies (RSOS)
News:
- SUE Lends a Hand: Field Museum Scientists Remove T. rex’s Arm for Argonne Study (Link)
- Research: Mosasaurs: Cold or Warm Blooded? (Link)
- New website for traveling exhibition: Daring to Dig: Women in Paleontology (Link)
- Britain’s last mammoths died when they fell en masse into an enormous pit left by melting ice 14,000 years ago (Link)
- Ancient global cooling gave rise to modern ecosystems (Link)
- Gender bias found in Earth-science society journals (Link)
- Giant dinosaur footprint discovered in Mongolia desert (Link)
- Paleontologist suggests ‘great dying’ 252 million years ago wasn’t as bad as thought (Link)
- Research to Answer a Crushing Evolutionary Question (Link)
- IRCM researchers explain how evolution has equipped our hands with five fingers (Link)
Events and Society Updates:
- DEADLINE IS TODAY! Digital Data in Paleontological Research Workshop (Link)
- 2016 SVP Women in Science Social (Link)
- OpenCon 2016 (Link)
Around the Blogosphere:
- Toothy, Rodent-like Reptile Is Our Ancient Forebear (Discover Magazine)
- Photogrammetry Testing 2: VisualSFM and MeshRecon (Peter Falkingham blog)
- Excavating Hidden Truths (Extinct)
- The Great Permian Extinction: When all life on Earth almost vanished (Earth Archives)
- Fossil type specimens of the National Parks (Equatorial Minnesota)
- The Day After TetZooCon (Tetrapod Zoology)
- Fossil Dinosaur Eggs at the VMNH (VMNH Paleo Lab)
- The National Fossil Hall Rejects (Extinct Monsters)
- TetZooCon 2016 Review (Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs)
- A Brief History of Pterosaurs (Letters from Gondwana)
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