This week we published New insights into the giant mustelids (Mammalia, Carnivora, Mustelidae) from Langebaanweg fossil site (West Coast Fossil Park, South Africa, early Pliocene) The research by scientists at Iziko Museums of South Africa and the University of Cape...
Today we published Thecodont tooth attachment and replacement in bolosaurid parareptiles The study examines how Bolosaurids jaws were constructed revealing unusual patterns of tooth development and replacement. We spoke to Author Adam Snyder to find out more. Can you...
Last month we published Dental characters used in phylogenetic analyses of mammals show higher rates of evolution, but not reduced independence by Neil Brocklehurst and Gemma Louise Benevento Here we talk to the authors about their research journey, the issues with...
Today we published Insight into the kinematics of blue whale surface foraging through drone observations and prey data. The research suggests that feeding at the ocean’s surface appears to play an important role in New Zealand blue whales’ foraging strategy,...
PeerJ recently published An unusual 100-million-year old holometabolan larva with a piercing mouth cone. The research describes finding an odd new larva preserved in Burmese amber with beak-like mouthparts, extremely rare among larval forms. Here we talk to...
Last week we published A new plesiosaurian from the Jurassic–Cretaceous transitional interval of the Slottsmøya Member (Volgian), with insights into the cranial anatomy of cryptoclidids using computed tomography The research describes the exciting discovery of a new...
We published a new biodiversity paper last week alerting the world to a brand new species of fish: ‘Cirripectes matatakaro, a new species of combtooth blenny from the Central Pacific, illuminates the origins of the Hawaiian fish fauna’ by Mykle Hoban and Jeffrey...
Guest blog post from David Coil, first author of the recently published article "Porphyrobacter mercurialis sp. nov., isolated from a stadium seat and emended description of the genus Porphyrobacter". This paper is our first attempt at entering the world of bacterial...
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