These can be depressing times for a paleontologist - funding is poor for most, the job market is dim for many talented friends and colleague...

Big commercial publishers - especially Elsevier - have been getting a lot of flack lately. There's the usual background noise about hig...

Back before the new year, I reviewed all 17 of the new fossil taxa that were published in PLoS ONE during 2011. Here, I look at the genera...

My thoughts on Days 2 and 3 of ScienceOnline2012 are found elsewhere - here I sum up some other impressions. Twitter at ScienceOnline...

In Day 3 of ScienceOnline 2012 (my second day), we had a fun mix of split sessions and common gatherings. Areas of interest for me included...

ScienceOnline is really one of those unique experiences - explicitly set up as an "UnConference," it encourages freewheeling inpu...

What do sauropods, primates, crabs, cats, and crocodiles have in common? They're all animals in the fossil record that had new spec...