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Today I continue my series highlighting repositories for paleontological raw data. Previous posts in this series can be found here, here, and here. MORPHOSOURCE (http://morphosource.org/) MorphoSource is a data repository for 3D data – raw
What has 16 fingers and a digital skull? Acanthostega, that’s what! Acanthostega was one of the first limbed (rather than strictly “finned”) vertebrates, living around 365 million years ago in the shallow waters of modern day Greenland. Imagine
Data sharing is important–it helps scientists to reproduce others’ results, add data to previous analyses, and otherwise maximize the impact of an individual publication. This isn’t really news, of course. But, now that we are
“How heavy was it?” Body mass is not just an intuitive way to compare the size of animals, but it’s also critical for understanding their biology. Numerous scientifically interesting attributes can be related to body
As promised, today I begin a series on repositories used for paleontological raw data. I will focusing on repositories to which data is submitted before publication, so that mention of it can appear in the
Science depends on the ability to make observations, repeat experiments, test hypotheses, and share knowledge. When a new study comes out, other researchers evaluate an author’s arguments based on the data they present and the
