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...
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...
Today we published "Evidence of acclimatization or adaptation in Hawaiian corals to higher ocean temperatures". In this study, scientists replicate a landmark coral bleaching study from the 1970s to determine changes in coral sea temperature tolerance over time. In...
Months of work go into the preparation and evaluation of your scientific article so that it is ready to be shared far and wide. PeerJ takes a number of deliberative steps to ensure that your research receives a large and global reach. But there are a number of steps...
The World Health Organization designates some antimicrobial classes to be of the “highest priority critically important” to human health. In a recent paper published in PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences, researchers looked at the levels of...
P-values and significance testing have come under increasing scrutiny in scientific research. How accurate are these methods for indicating whether a hypothesis is valid? PeerJ Author Valentin Amrhein looks at the many issues with significance testing, why the p-value...
How do butterflies choose their mate? Research has largely focused on male visual attraction towards female colour patterns, but a recent study finds there are more signals at play here. Kathy Darragh from the University of Cambridge shares more on the research...
Software is an essential component of 21st-century science workflows, yet it often receives little attention in formal scientific publication. Software citation is one way to encourage wider recognition of software's role in scientific analysis. In 2016, we published...
The difference between koala poop and wombat poop is not only in shape! Different microbial communities point to why koalas are able to digest the leaves of Eucalyptus trees. Yesterday we published Gene and genome-centric analyses of koala and wombat fecal microbiomes...
This is a guest post written by PeerJ Academic Editor Christopher Lortie, who recently shared a preprint on PeerJ Preprints discussing optimal ways of cultivating ideas for scientific discovery. Invasion biology shows that there is a lot to be learned from studying...
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