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

Featured Image: Utahceratops gettyi, a ceratopsian named in honor of Mike Getty, who passed away this week. From Sampson et al (2010). Papers (All Open Access): End-Cretaceous akaganéite as a mineral marker of Deccan volcanism in the

Featured Image: CT rendering of the jaws of Rhynchobatus. From Dean et al. (2017) Papers (All Open Access): Myosin repertoire expansion coincides with eukaryotic diversification in the Mesoproterozoic era (BMC Evolutionary Biology) Architecture of crossed-lamellar bivalve shells:

Featured Image: Paratype of †Sorbinicharax verraesi. MCSNV Na 47. From Mayrinck et al. (2017). Papers (All Open Access): The functional head of the Cambrian radiodontan (stem-group Euarthropoda) Amplectobelua symbrachiata (BMC Evolutionary Biology) New insights into Mesozoic

Featured Image: Holotype of Mesembrinella caenozoica sp. nov. From Cerretti et al. (2017). Papers (All Open Access): Heterogenous oceanic redox conditions through the Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary limited the metazoan zonation (Scientific Reports) First fossil of an oestroid

Featured Image: Lower jaw of Anatoliadelphys maasae, from Maga et al. 2017. CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Quid est Clea helena? Evidence for a previously unrecognized radiation of assassin snails (Gastropoda: Buccinoidea: Nassariidae) (PeerJ) Telychian (Llandovery,

Featured Image: The skull of Moschops capensis AM4950 in photograph and reconstruction showing neural structures. From Benoit et al (2017). Papers (All Open Access): The fossil history of pseudoscorpions (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones) (Fossil Record) The late Maastrichtian

Featured Image: Plate 40, drawn by Mary Morland, from W. Buckland (1824b) showing the lectotype right dentary of Megalosaurus. From Howlett et al. (2017). Papers (All Open Access): First discovery of the charophycean green alga Lychnothamnus

Featured Image: Maevia eureka from Riquelme and Menéndez-Acuña (2017) Papers (All Open Access): A Burmese amber fossil of Radula (Porellales, Jungermanniopsida) provides insights into the Cretaceous evolution of epiphytic lineages of leafy liverworts (Fossil Record) An exceptionally

Featured Image: Illustration of Aepyornithomimus tugrikinensis drawn by Mr. Masato Hattori. From Tsogtbaatar et al. (2017). CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Early evolution of radial glial cells in Bilateria (ProcB) Ecological interactions in Cloudina from the