The word “Madagascar” conjures up images of lemurs and baobob trees—indeed, a great portion of vertebrate paleontological research has pursued questions on the origin of the island’s unique land-dwelling life forms. Yet, there is also

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The word “Madagascar” conjures up images of lemurs and baobob trees—indeed, a great portion of vertebrate paleontological research has pursued questions on the origin of the island’s unique land-dwelling life forms. Yet, there is also
0000-0002-6784-3980This was originally published by PLOS Research News on April 18, 2018, by Beth Baker. The original post can be found here. If you’ve ever seen a sea turtle, you’ll not be surprised to hear that
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
0000-0002-6784-3980#4 in our list of the winners of the Top 10 Open Access Fossil Vertebrates of the year is shared between two new species in a new genus of crocodiles: Lohuecosuchus megadontus and mechinorum, that
0000-0002-6784-3980South America has proven very lucrative in the last few decades when it comes to new theropod dinosaur discoveries from the Late Cretaceous. The list is impressive, with genera such as Megaraptor [1], Orkoraptor [2], Aerosteon
0000-0002-6784-3980Featured image above courtesy Mario Quiñones Faúndez May has been a spectacularly busy month. And a lot of awesome research was recently published on PLOS ONE and other open access journals (check out our Fossil
“$%@# rain. It was sprinkling last night when I went to bed, and [it] was full-scale rain by 3 [a.m.] or so. Still raining at 7. Off and on rain, up to 9 a.m. as