Earlier this month we published “Mammut pacificus sp. nov., a newly recognized species of mastodon from the Pleistocene of western North America“. In this study, researchers report on key taxonomic differences between the American mastodon, Mammut americanum, and the...
When and why did the giant mega-toothed shark Otodus megalodon become extinct?
Today we published “The Early Pliocene extinction of the mega-toothed shark Otodus megalodon: a view from the eastern North Pacific“. In this study, researchers review all records of the shark from western North America to get a better understanding of when and why...
Winner of PeerJ sponsored Best Presentation Award at International Biogeography Society’s 2019 meeting interviewed
Congratulations go to Christiana McDonald-Spicer, winner of the PeerJ Award for Best Oral Presentation at the International Biogeography Society meeting IBS 2019 in Malaga, Spain last month. The PeerJ Award includes a free publication in PeerJ (upon submission and...
Top 5 most-viewed PeerJ Preprints of 2018
Alongside PeerJ - the Journal of Life and Environmental Sciences, our preprint server, PeerJ Preprints, also celebrated its fifth birthday this year. With a number of scientific journals, funders and societies highlighting the importance of preprints to scientific...
Celebrating community growth and Open Science – PeerJ’s 2018 in review
As 2018 comes to an end, we would like to take a moment and recognize the significant efforts of our staff, authors, editors, reviewers, and many collaborators over this past year. And what a year it has been at PeerJ! We are proud to share it has been another...
Congratulations to the first round of PeerJ Award winners!
With the PeerJ Awards program in full swing, we are eager to highlight the winners so far. Here is a brief look at their award-winning contributions and their next steps in open science. By teaming up with a number of conferences to offer these awards, we are making...
The most complete enantiornithine bird fossil from North America: “The stuff of legend to those in the paleo-ornithology community”
We recently published “The most complete enantiornithine from North America and a phylogenetic analysis of the Avisauridae“. In this study, researchers describe one of the largest birds known from North America from the Age of Dinosaurs. Detailed analysis of the...
Get ready for Chemistry at PeerJ: Five new journals in Chemistry from Open Access publisher PeerJ
Today we are pleased to announce five new PeerJ journals covering distinct disciplines within chemistry: PeerJ Physical Chemistry; PeerJ Organic Chemistry; PeerJ Inorganic Chemistry; PeerJ Analytical Chemistry; and PeerJ Materials Science. Ever since the formation of...
Help take Open Science to the next level – become a PeerJ Ambassador
From open access articles to preprints to reproducibility initiatives, researchers today have no shortage of opportunities to embrace open science practices. And yet, even though great strides have been made in the last few years, we know that there is still so much...
BBCC2018 Call for Contributions and Award Announcement
PeerJ is proud to have supported the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology in Campania Conference in recent years. We hosted Collections of their output from 2015 and 2016 and so we are pleased to announce that we will also be hosting the output from BBCC2018 which...









