Monthly Archives: November 2018

Featured Image: Scanning electron micrographs (SEM) of feathers. From Schweitzer et al. (2018), CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Value of species and the evolution of conservation ethics (RSOS) New perspectives in the study of the Earth’s magnetic field and climate connection: The use of transfer entropy (PLOS ONE) Multi-decadal to centennial hydro-climate variability and linkage toContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: November 30, 2018”

Featured Image: Piramys auffenbergi, holotype skull, GSI 18133. From Ferriera et al. (2018), CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): The Unfinished Synthesis?: Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology in the 20th Century (Journal of the History of Biology) A general pattern of the species abundance distribution (PeerJ) Negative biotic interactions drive predictions of distributions for species from a grasslandContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: November 16, 2018”

Featured Image: Changchunsaurus parvus, from Chen et al. (2018), CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): First U-Pb zircon ages for late Miocene Ashfall Konservat-Lagerstätte and Grove Lake ashes from eastern Great Plains, USA (PLOS ONE) The Howiesons Poort lithic sequence of Klipdrift Shelter, southern Cape, South Africa (PLOS ONE) Stability trophic cascades in food chains (RSOS) Phylogeny,ContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: November 9, 2018”

Featured Image: Tomographic renderings of endoskeletal anatomy of †Saurichthys sp. (NHMD_157546_A), right lateral (mirrored) view. From Argyriou et al. (2018). CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Colorado Plateau Coring Project, Phase I (CPCP-I): a continuously cored, globally exportable chronology of Triassic continental environmental change from western North America (Scientific Drilling) Highly bioavailable dust-borne iron delivered to the SouthernContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: November 2, 2018”