Category Archives: Fossil Friday Roundup

Featured image: Paleontologists prepare to remove a Tyrannosaurus rex skull from a fossil dig site in northern Montana and transport it to the Burke Museum at the University of Washington. Credit: Dave DeMar/Burke Museum/University of Washington Papers (all Open Access): Progress to extinction: increased specialisation causes the demise of animal clades (Scientific Reports) Formation of the Isthmus ofContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: August 19th, 2016”

Featured image: The Piltdown Man is back in the headlines this week! Above: Group portrait of the Piltdown skull being examined. Back row (from left): F. O. Barlow, G. Elliot Smith, Charles Dawson, Arthur Smith Woodward. Front row: A S Underwood, Arthur Keith, W. P. Pycraft, and Ray Lankester. Painting by John Cooke, 1915. Public Domain. Papers (all Open Access): Molecular phylogenetic analysisContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: August 12, 2016”

Featured image: Australovenator attacking a Muttaburrasaurus. Artwork by Travis R. Tischler. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.2312/fig-1 Papers (all Open Access): An examination of feeding ecology in Pleistocene proboscideans from southern China (Sinomastodon, Stegodon, Elephas), by means of dental microwear texture analysis (Quaternary International) Barcoding the largest animals on Earth: ongoing challenges and molecular solutions in the taxonomic identification of ancient cetaceans (PTRSB) PalZ isContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: August 5, 2016”

Featured image: Statues of Iguanodon and Megalosaurus on display at the Natural History Museum in London. Photo by Sarah Gibson. Papers (all Open Access): Special volume dedicated to Tom Rich (Link) Osteogenic tumour in Australopithecus sediba: Earliest hominin evidence for neoplastic disease (South African Journal of Science) Earliest hominin cancer: 1.7-million-year-old osteosarcoma from Swartkrans Cave, SouthContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: July 29, 2016”

Featured image: Murusraptor barrosaensis, which lived about 80 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period. (Courtesy: Jan Sovak) Papers (all Open Access): New holostean fishes (Actinopterygii: Neopterygii) from the Middle Triassic of the Monte San Giorgio (Canton Ticino, Switzerland) (PeerJ) A new method for reconstructing brain morphology: applying the brain-neurocranial spatial relationship in an extantContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: July 22, 2016”

Featured Image: A pair of Gualicho dinosaurs pursuing prey. Image courtesy Jorge Gonzalez and Pablo Lara/PA Happy Fossil Friday! One quick announcement, the PLOS Paleontology Community has a new Facebook page (to replace our former Facebook Group) Click here to like us on Facebook! Papers (all Open Access): A tiny new marsupial lion (Marsupialia, Thylacoleonidae) from theContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: July 15th, 2016”

Featured Image: U.S. Forest Service paleontologist Bruce Schumacher jacketing a mammoth tibia discovered in July 2015 in San Isabel National Forest. Image courtesy U.S. Forest Service. Papers (all Open Access): Ataxioceras (Ataxioceras) lopeztichae Cantú-Chapa, 1991: Updating the systematic and palaeobiogeographic interpretation (Palaeontologia Electronica) Unveiling trampling history through trackway interferences and track preservational features: a case study fromContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: July 8, 2016”

Featured Image: Leonardo the hadrosaur. Image courtesy Red Rocket Photography/The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis/Wikimedia Common (CC BY-SA 3.0) Papers (all Open Access): Eutherians experienced elevated evolutionary rates in the immediate aftermath of the Cretaceous–Palaeogene mass extinction (Link) Mummified precocial bird wings in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Link) A fossil Diploglossus (Squamata, Anguidae) lizard from Basse-Terre and Grande-Terre Islands (Guadeloupe,ContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: July 1, 2016”