Over at SV-POW! , Mike Taylor recently addressed the issue of how to format in-text citations. Writing in his inimitable style, he makes the...

Beavers are some of the most distinctive (and largest) rodents around today. Two species of the extant beaver, Castor , are found throughout...

A little over three weeks ago, Dave Hone and I kicked off the 2010 Paleo Project Challenge . Basically, it is an opportunity to finish off ...

Everyone has an unfinished project. Most of us have at least a half dozen. Those partly finished manuscripts, paintings, data sets, and prep...

First, congratulations to Chris Brochu and colleagues on their paper describing a new species of "horned" crocodile from Olduvai G...

When many of us think of viewing things under a " black light ," we either think of those psychedelic posters from the 1960s or el...

Well. . .January 1, 2010 has faded into memory, and with it the 2009 Paleo Paper Challenge (PPC) . For those of you who need a brief reminde...

On a personal note, I have recently stepped up as "Section Editor" for paleontology at PLoS ONE . This means that I'll be coor...

I was pleasantly surprised to learn earlier today that last week's post about pachycephalosaur ontogeny was awarded " Blog Pick of ...

Distinguishing the skulls of juveniles and adults of the same species, and sometimes different species, can be a prickly thing in the fossil...

Dave Hone of Archosaur Musings and I were recently chatting online and were lamenting the inevitable problem of ‘the unfinished paper’. Mos...

A few months ago, Matt Wedel (of SV-POW! fame ) lamented the lack of measurements in most contemporary scientific papers . As a real numberh...

Research of catastrophic proportions. Another piece of the Shiny Digital Future . An unholy union between members of SV-POW! and The Open S...

I am happy to announce that one of the papers resulting from my dissertation research, on head-butting in goats, is now freely available fo...

Unfortunately, not everyone has access to a massive research library (or in some cases, any research library at all). Yet, the literature is...

Allometric scaling - roughly defined, when different parts of an organism grow at different rates - is an important factor in biology. In pa...

First, congratulations to Dr. Mark Loewen , who successfully completed his dissertation defense on Tuesday afternoon. His dissertation focus...

Fossil footprints (falling in the general category of "ichnofossils") reveal a wealth of information about dinosaur biology, such ...

If you haven't seen already, the past two weeks have been great for paleontology on the pages of PLoS ONE , a high-profile open access j...

Wow! The past few days have been a real whirlwind. As mentioned in my last post , our long-awaited paper (well, long-awaited by my co-author...