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

Featured Image: Teeth from the lower jaw of an antelope, featured in an article published in PLOS ONE that focused on crowdsourcing image outlines for paleontological research. Source: Matthews et al. 2017. CC-BY. Papers (All Open

Featured Image: New methods for scanning large fossils was published this week in PLOS ONE. From Das et al. (2017). Papers (All Open Access): Environmentally driven extinction and opportunistic origination explain fern diversification patterns (Scientific

Featured Image: MJSN TCH006-574, Plesiochelys etalloni (Kimmeridgian, Porrentruy, Switzerland). From Pütener et al (2017). Papers (All Open Access): Further study of Late Devonian seed plant Cosmosperma polyloba: its reconstruction and evolutionary significance (BMC Evolutionary Biology) Pleistocene

Featured Image: Remnant of a typical hydrothermal quartz dyke in the northern Jack Hills region / Western Australia which crystallized presumably in Archaean time in deeper parts of a shear-dominated crust (photograph by Thomas Kirnbauer, with

Featured Image: Skull of specimen MCP-PV-1600-T (holotype of Probelesodon kitchingi) in lateral view. From Martinelli et al. (2017). Papers (All Open Access): Dating early animal evolution using phylogenomic data (Scientific Reports) Tiny pollen grains: first

Featured Image: The Jurassic fish Cavenderichthys from the Talbralgar Beds of Australia, shown under an Aluminum elemental map. From Frese et al. (2017). Papers (All Open Access): Disc-shaped fossils resembling porpitids or eldonids from the early

Featured Image: Reconstruction of Camarasaurus, based on specimen GPDM 220. Art by Scott Hartman. From Woodruff and Foster (2017). Papers (All Open Access): Phylogenomic analyses of Crassiclitellata support major Northern and Southern Hemisphere clades and a Pangaean

Featured Image:   Dorsal view of Promecops (Promecodes) divarichela n. sp. in Dominican amber. From Poinar and Legalov (2017). Papers (All Open Access): Impact of e-publication changes in the International Code of Nomenclature for algae,

Featured Image: Artistic life reconstruction of the new species Galeamopus pabsti from the Jurassic of Wyoming, USA, by Davide Bonadonna (Milan, Italy). Copyright: Davide Bonadonna, permission granted for use in news articles. See Tschopp and Mateus