An international team of scientists have discovered the largest dinosaur foot ever in the Morrison Formation of the Black Hills region in the United States. This finding confirms brachiosaurs roamed the land over 150 million years ago. Anthony Maltese is co-author of...
PeerJ articles are viewed and downloaded by millions of readers in hundreds of countries. As we celebrate five years of disseminating scientific research, we are pleased to highlight some of the headline-making research published in PeerJ and PeerJ Computer...
Today we published two papers that each provide exciting details of discoveries about sauropod dinosaurs roaming the Earth over 150 million years ago. Osteology of Galeamopus pabsti sp. nov. (Sauropoda: Diplodocidae) by Emanuel Tschopp and Octávio Mateus describes a...
Materials and press release provided by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. For such small and delicate creatures, they can pack mighty painful stings. Known as clinging jellyfish because they attach themselves to seagrasses and seaweeds, Gonionemus is found along...
Materials and press release provided by the Field Museum What’s brightly colored, lives on shipwrecks, filter-feeds like a whale, and shoots webs like Spiderman? If you can’t readily come up with an answer, that’s okay: until now, such animals weren’t known to...
Today we published "Boxer crabs induce asexual reproduction of their associated sea anemones by splitting and intraspecific theft" by Yisrael Schnytzer, Yavin Giman, Ilan Karplus and Yair Achituv. This is a fascinating and elegant study which shows that Lybia boxer...
Last month, PeerJ Preprints published "Gender bias in open source: Pull request acceptance of women versus men". That preprint was quickly picked up, and went on to receive a huge amount of feedback in venues as diverse as twitter, Reddit, Slashdot, Facebook, news...
Today we are pleased to have published "Can we measure beauty? Computational evaluation of coral reef aesthetics" by Haas et al. Since antiquity, philosophers and art historians have searched for universally valid criteria for aesthetic principles — in other words, a...
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