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New dinosaur found in a South African museum!

Fig 1: Photographs of the skull of BP/1/4779

August 5, 2019

New dinosaur found in a South African museum!

Researchers have unearthed a new species of dinosaur from a 30 year old museum collection in South African. The new species has been named Ngwevu intloko.

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August 27, 2019

A comprehensive molecular phylogeny of Geometridae (Lepidoptera) with a focus on enigmatic small subfamilies

Leidys Murillo-Ramos, Gunnar Brehm, Pasi Sihvonen, Axel Hausmann, Sille Holm, Hamid Reza Ghanavi, Erki Õunap, Andro Truuverk, Hermann Staude, Egbert Friedrich, Toomas Tammaru, Niklas Wahlberg

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7386 PubMed 31523494

August 16, 2019

Towards a barnacle tree of life: integrating diverse phylogenetic efforts into a comprehensive hypothesis of thecostracan evolution

Christine Ewers-Saucedo, Christopher L. Owen, Marcos Pérez-Losada, Jens T. Høeg, Henrik Glenner, Benny K.K. Chan, Keith A. Crandall

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7387 PubMed 31440430

August 22, 2019

Estimating the phylogeny of geoemydid turtles (Cryptodira) from landmark data: an assessment of different methods

Eduardo Ascarrunz, Julien Claude, Walter G. Joyce

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7476 PubMed 31497387

August 30, 2019

Echinoids from the Tesero Member (Werfen Formation) of the Dolomites (Italy): implications for extinction and survival of echinoids in the aftermath of the end-Permian mass extinction

Jeffrey R. Thompson, Renato Posenato, David J. Bottjer, Elizabeth Petsios