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0000-0002-6784-3980This article was originally posted on the PLOS Research News website on June 6, 2018. The original post can be found here. Little is known about the early hunter-gatherer populations that lived on islands in
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
0000-0002-6784-3980This was originally published by PLOS Research News on March 28, 2018, by Beth Baker. The original post can be found here. Human footprints found off Canada’s Pacific coast may be 13,000 years old, according to
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
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
Barracuda are fearsome aquatic predators, also known within pop culture for that song by Heart. The fish (not the song) within the genus Sphyraena have a virtually global distribution, but tend to hang out in nice and
The duck-billed dinosaurs (hadrosaurs) may not be as glamorous as tyrannosaurs (and most tyrannosaur researchers sure don’t respect these “Cretaceous food items” anyhow), but in many ways they are a far more interesting and scientifically
0000-0002-6784-3980Next in the countdown of the winners of the PLOS Paleo Open Access Fossil Vertebrates of the past year is Xenyokeryx amidalae! This critter also had the honor of being featured on the PLOS Paleo
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
