PeerJ has a strong press program and media network. We press release articles most weeks via our own press list and EurekAlert, and our authors’ research is regularly featured in a wide range of media outlets, from popular international news sites to specialist sites....
Assessing the toxicity of Reddit comments
Researchers analyze over 2 billion posts and comments from cross-community Redditors to assess how toxicity changes depending on the community in which they participate New research, published in the Open Access journal PeerJ Computer Science, which analyses over 87...
New Sabre-Tooth Predator Precedes Cats by Millions of Years
Paleontologists describe sabre-toothed mammal new to science, offering view into evolution of meat-eaters in recently published PeerJ Life & Environment article Diegoaelurus, a new machaeroidine (Oxyaenidae) from the Santiago Formation (late Uintan) of southern...
A new 225-million-year-old reptile from Brazil
In a new study published in PeerJ – Reassessment of Faxinalipterus minimus, a purported Triassic pterosaur from southern Brazil with the description of a new taxon – researchers present Maehary bonapartei a small reptile that is considered to be the most basal of the...
Researchers describe a three-meter long Mesozoic marine reptile named Baisesaurus robustus
In a new study published in PeerJ - A new basal ichthyosauromorph from the Lower Triassic (Olenekian) of Zhebao, Guangxi Autonomous Region, South China - researchers describe a three-meter long Mesozoic marine reptile named Baisesaurus robustus "I'm inclined to take...
PeerJ Preprints to stop accepting new preprints Sep 30th 2019
PeerJ to offer only peer-reviewed open access journal publishing going forward. PeerJ Preprints is a free service that launched in April 2013, just two months after publishing began in our more traditional peer-reviewed journal, PeerJ. At the time, there were no...
Researchers develop photographic identification methods for monitoring the movement of the mysterious but massive smalleye stingray
Today we published “Spotting the “small eyes”: using photo-ID methodology to study a wild population of smalleye stingrays (Megatrygon microps) in southern Mozambique“. In this study, scientists assessed the suitability of photographic-identification for identifying...
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...
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...
Fossil Stoneflies in Burmese Amber named after the Rolling Stones
Just in time for Mick Jagger’s 75th birthday today, Arnold H Staniczek, entomologist at Stuttgart State Museum of Natural History and long time hardcore fan of the Rolling Stones, paid a very special homage to his rock heroes. During a collaborative project on fossil...