Dental microwear, seen in the tiny pits and scratches on a tooth, provides lots of detailed data for inferring diet and chewing behavior i...

In my last post , I introduced a ground-breaking study recently published in PLoS ONE , that shows how we can infer long-term trends in anim...

Last week, the online, open access journal Palaeontologia Electronica published a new issue , with a fantastic spectrum of papers. Much dis...

A new paper in PLoS ONE , by Mark Witton and Mike Habib , re-evaluates claims that big pterosaurs were too big to fly. To make a long story...

Pterosaurs - winged denizens of the Mesozoic skies - get a bum rap. It's bad enough that their name is smeared by the general public, w...

An earlier post here detailed a study just published in PLoS ONE , which focused on unraveling the relationship of an extinct Chinese beave...

Fossil preparators are the unsung heroes of paleontology. For every paper on a spectacular Archaeopteryx skeleton, or an exquisite new cera...

This blog has been hosting a sporadic series interviewing the editors from various open access journals for paleontologists. This time aro...

Yesterday, I ran the first part of this two-part interview with Anthony (Tony) Martin , senior author on a new paper in PLoS ONE . The rese...

The open access journal PLoS ONE has published a lot of neat paleontology articles over the last few years (see here for a reasonably comp...

Regular readers of this blog probably know that I'm a big proponent of open access publishing. Today, I wanted to highlight another open...