Fossil Friday Roundup: September 22, 2017

Featured Image: Sclerobionts on mollusc shells. From Agostini et al. (2017).

Papers (All Open Access):

• In defence of the three-domains of life paradigm (BMC Evolutionary Biology)
• The Vicissicaudata revisited – insights from a new aglaspidid arthropod with caudal appendages from the Furongian of China (Scientific Reports)
• The evolutionary history of Stomatopoda (Crustacea: Malacostraca) inferred from molecular data (PeerJ)
• What determines sclerobiont colonization on marine mollusk shells? (PLOS ONE)
• Bite force in the horned frog (Ceratophrys cranwelli) with implications for extinct giant frogs (Scientific Reports)
• Endocast of the Late Triassic (Carnian) dinosaur Saturnalia tupiniquim: implications for the evolution of brain tissue in Sauropodomorpha (Scientific Reports)
• Consumption of crustaceans by megaherbivorous dinosaurs: dietary flexibility and dinosaur life history strategies (Scientific Reports)
• Quantifying the dynamic wing morphing of hovering hummingbird (RSOS)
• Determinants of spring migration departure decision in a bat (Biology Letters)
• Into the dark: patterns of middle ear adaptations in subterranean eulipotyphlan mammals (RSOS)
• Neanderthal and Denisova tooth protein variants in present-day humans (PLOS ONE)
• Upper Triassic lithostratigraphy, depositional systems, and vertebrate paleontology across southern Utah (UGA)
• South Atlantic paleobathymetry since early Cretaceous (Scientific Reports)
• An evidence-based evaluation of transferrable skills and job satisfaction for science PhDs (PLOS ONE)
• Comparative studies need to rely both on sound natural history data and on excellent statistical analysis (RSOS)
• Thresholds of catastrophe in the Earth system (Science Advances)

Community Events, Society Updates, and Resources:

• Upcoming National Fossil Day Events, Part 1 (PLOS Paleo)
• Call for Nominations: Nat’l Academy of Sciences Elliot Medal, due Oct. 12 (Link)
• Principles of Vertebrate Functional Morphology, October 16–20, 2017, Barcelona, Spain (Link)
• The Fourth TetZooCon (Link)
• The Science Ambassador Scholarship for female undergraduate and high school seniors, Deadline December 11, 2017 (Link)
• Trekking Across the GOBE: From the Cambrian through the Katian, IGCP 653 Annual Meeting, June 3-7, 2018, Athens, Ohio, USA (Link)
• North American Paleontological Convention June 23–27 2019 (Link)

News and Views:

Animals and Anatomy:

• Dickinsonia is an animal (Earth Archives)
• Enigma of the Day: Rutgersella (Equatorial Minnesota)
• Cretaceous Hell Ants (Dr. Neurosaurus)
• Will fame corrupt our sweet bugs-next-door, the Solite insects? (Updates from the VMNH Paleo Lab)
• Life after death: Largest discovered Ichthyosaurus preserves a fossilised embryo (PLOS Paleo)
• Swimming With Dinosaurs (Synapsida)
• Did toxic algae kill these dinosaurs? (Earth Touch News)
• Fossilized poo reveals that vegetarian dinosaurs had a taste for crabs (Nature News)
• Lumbering giants had agile ancestors (Link)
• Dinosaurs Laid Blue Eggs—And That’s a Big Deal (National Geographic)
• Killing-off Scottish Mammaliamorphs (Giant Science Lady)
• Fossil Friday – mastodon vertebra revisited (Valley of the Mastodon)
• Mastodon bones in West Michigan could add new piece to prehistoric puzzle (Link)
• A Little Giant (Laelaps)

Museums, Methods, and Musings:

• Paleontological Luck (Extinct)
• Undergraduate Research Experience (Time Scavengers)
• Miguasha National Park – 150 things about Canadian palaeo, part 16 (Musings of a Clumsy Paleontologist)
• Giving talks: some more positive thoughts (SV-POW)
• Giving talks: what to leave out (SV-POW)
• The Dinosaur that Went Viral: Looking at the science behind the Facebook posts (Time Scavengers)
• Tenth Anniversary Post (Archosaur Musings)
• September has been very busy (Green Tea and Velociraptors)
• The Museum of Ordinary Animals opens at the Grant Museum (UCL Blogs)

Featured Folks and Fieldwork:

• Finding Fossils with Wendy Sloboda: the Canadian Badlands’ Legendary Dinosaur Hunter (Insatiable Traveler)
• J. Mike Hils, Paleontologist and Instructor (Time Scavengers)
• Meet Undraa, our Volunteer of the Quarter (IMSD)
• Meet Paleoartist Henry Sharpe, our Fall 2017 Featured Artist (IMSD)
• Daines honors Montanan of the Week (Link)
• SVP Taylor & Francis Award Interview: Christopher Griffin (Old Bones)
• A Labor of Love: Museum Paleontology Volunteers Ann and Randy Johnson (NHMU Blog)
• SVP Romer Prize Interview: Aaron LeBlanc (Old Bones)

Art, books, culture, and fun:

• Vintage Dinosaur Art: How Tough was a Tyrannosaurus? (Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs)
• Science Literacy Week 2017: Good Vibrations (Pseudoplocephalus)
• Palaeoart: The Collaboration Between Art and Science (Inside the Royal Tyrrell Museum)
• Science Literacy Week 2017: How to Be a Scientist (Pseudoplocephalus)
• Science Literacy Week 2017: Last Chances (Pseudoplocephalus)
• Paleoart: University of Calgary casts spotlight on bridge between art and dinosaurs (Link)
• Science Literacy Week 2017: You can really taste the silt. (Pseudoplocephalus)

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