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The mastodon–an Ice Age cousin of today’s elephants–is an icon of North American paleontology. Known to science for over 200 years, and studied by some of the greatest scientific minds, you might think that all
0000-0002-6784-3980When someone studies migration patterns of different organisms, one may consider many lines of evidence. For modern organisms, that is easy: visual and audio cues, tracks, feces, etc. In the fossil record, it can be
0000-0002-6784-3980Last week, a new species of dinosaur was described in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. The dinosaur, Arkansaurus fridayi, is an ornithomimosaur the Early Cretaceous of Arkansas, and represents the first dinosaur to be described
I’m a huge anatomy geek, and love papers that figure and describe the nooks and crannies of skulls. The increasingly widespread use of digital scans, coupled with the unfettering of page and color limitations by
0000-0002-6784-3980 This article was written by Tessa Gregory and first appeared at PLOS Research News on December 20, 2017. The authors of a recent PLOS ONE study describe a small dolphin skull discovered in Ecuador, which
0000-0002-6784-3980With the end of the year comes the end to our countdown of the winners of the Top 10 Open Access Fossil Taxa of 2017. We appreciate everyone that took the time to read all
0000-0002-6784-3980Our readers have spoken, and the Top 10 Open Access Fossil Taxa of 2017 have been selected. To celebrate each individual taxon and study, the editors of PLOS Paleo will highlight each in its own individual blog post, counting
Today, a new paper describing new fossils of an early dolphin, Albertocetus, was published in PLOS ONE. This animal was named several years back, and the fossils presented in the work fill in many aspects of the critter’s anatomy
0000-0002-6784-3980 This interview with Guntupalli Prasad was published October 25, 2017, by Beth Baker at PLOS Research News. In a new PLOS ONE study, Guntupalli Prasad and colleagues announce the discovery of what is thought
Ancient mammals were weird. And it wasn’t the “super-size and add saber teeth” kind of weird, either. Mammalian evolutionary history is full of fascinating dead ends and interesting side branches–exemplified quite well by hyaenodonts. Don’t let the
