Fossil Friday Roundup: January 6, 2017

Featured Image: 3D printout of the Dwykaselachus brain case. Image courtesy University of Chicago. For more info, see first article under News

Happy New Year everyone!

Papers (All Open Access):

• The Importance of International Collaborations to Advance Research Endeavors (PLOS ONE)
• Body size–trophic position relationships among fishes of the lower Mekong basin (RSOS)
• Dinosaur incubation periods directly determined from growth-line counts in embryonic teeth show reptilian-grade development (PNAS)
• A cryptic record of Burgess Shale-type diversity from the early Cambrian of Baltica (Palaeontology)

News:

• 280 Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals Origins of Chimaeroid Fishes (Link)
• NASA Scientists Come To Dinosaur Provincial Park (Link)
• Fossil fuel formation: Key to atmosphere’s oxygen? (Link)
• South American fossil tomatillos show nightshades evolved earlier than thought (Link)
• South Texas fossil could be reptile that swam 90M years ago (Link)
• Pitt owns 6,000 acres of fossils, artifacts and inspiration in Wyoming (Link)
• Bones In Belgium Cave Prove Neanderthals Were Cannibals: Why Extinct Human Relative Practiced Cannibalism (Link)
• Study of Extinct Seabirds Reflects Climate Change in OC, California (Link)

Community Events and Society Updates:

• Webinar: Paleontological Resources Preservation Act of 2009 (PRPA), January 19, 2017 (Link)
• Paleontological Society Arthur James Boucot Research Grants (Link)

Around the Blogosphere:

• 2016 in Review (Equatorial Minnesota)
• My talk on copyright, from the University of Manchester’s “Open Knowledge in Higher Education” course (SV-POW)
• Review of 2016 (Raptormaniacs)
• Science, Religion, and Bad Poetry (Extinct)
• This Mesozoic Month: December 2016 (Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs)
• The Strange Case of the Minnesota Iceman (Tetrapod Zoology)
• Beware over-interpreting photos of fossils (SV-POW)
• Avian Evolution (Raptormaniacs)
• My year in review – bring on 2017! (Musings of a Clumsy Paleontologist)
• Underwhelming fossil fish of the Month December 2016 (UCL Blogs)
• Bears Ears Bibliography (Prehistoric Pub)
• Paleo Profile: The Northern Nasutoceratopsian (Laelaps)
• The Little Butts from Iowa (Laelaps)
• Red Canyon; Fossils and Silence (Prehistoric Pub)
• Help Save Dinosaur Ridge!!! (Prehistoric Pub)
• Open sourcing Lucy, the world’s most famous fossil (Ars Technica)
• Richard Fallon, Popularization, and Paleoart: Then and Now (Popularizing Palaeontology)

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