Featured Image: Xanthopimpla messelensis, from Spasojevic et al. 2018. Papers (All Open Access): How many landmarks are enough to characterize shape and size variation? (PLOS ONE) How does it feel? The affective domain and undergraduate student perception

Featured Image: A reconstruction of the antiarch Phymolepis cuifengshanensis from the Devonian of China. Art by Dinghua Yang. From Wang and Zhu (2018), CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): The Weeks Formation Konservat-Lagerstätte and the evolutionary transition

Featured Image:  A range of ways to present 3D data on a theropod track. From Falkingham et al. (2018). CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): A standard protocol for documenting modern and fossil ichnological data (Frontiers

Featured Image:  Pycnodus (BSPG AS I 1209). Scale bar equals 1 cm. Photo credit: Jürgen Kriwet. From Cawley et al. (2018). Papers (All Open Access): Multilevel analysis of dendroclimatic series with the R-package BIOdry (PLOS ONE)

Featured Image: View of Grotta La Fabbrica, from Villa et al. (2018). Papers (All Open Access): Binary-state speciation and extinction method is conditionally robust to realistic violations of its assumptions (BMC Evolutionary Biology) Did the transition

Featured Image: Citipati osmolskae, IGM 100/1004 in left lateral view. Anterior is to the left. From Norell et al. (2018). Papers (All Open Access): Quantifying the living fossil concept (PalaeoE) Getting somewhere with the Red Queen: chasing

Featured Image: From Nowakowski (2018). CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Quantifying ecological impacts of mass extinctions with network analysis of fossil communities (PNAS) Late Miocene climate cooling and intensification of southeast Asian winter monsoon (Nature

Featured Image: Skull of Sellamynodon zimborensis (holotype, UBB MPS 15795), a Late Eocene-Early Oligocene amynodontid from Dobârca (Romania). From Tissier et al. (2018), CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): The Cambrian–Ordovician succession at Lanna, Sweden: stratigraphy and

Featured Image: Parababinskaia makarkini sp. n., holotype male. From Hu et al. (2018), CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Diel hysteresis between soil respiration and soil temperature in a biological soil crust covered desert ecosystem (PLOS ONE)

Featured Image: webpic Images used to compare data collection methods. Specimens were collected from locality number TT92-3 (“Dori’s Tuff”). From Chang (2018). Papers (All Open Access): Combined morphological and phylogenomic re-examination of malawimonads, a critical taxon for inferring