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I can haz cone shell? Cambrian (541–485 million years ago) This doge-y looking arthropod ancestor is…
I can haz cone shell? Cambrian (541–485 million years ago) This doge-y looking arthropod ancestor is…
Diving into the haystack to make hay is one of the most inefficient activities imaginable (as well as a figurative absurdity).
In May 2009, a small fossil mammal was announced to the world as Darwinius masillae. Despite looking (let's be honest) like…
The course of the news was slightly perturbed recently by the description of the 55-million-year-old fossil primate Archicebus…
The arms of Ida. The large tubercle of rough bone on her right wrist is an injury she sustained weeks prior to death. Image…
Wpis na temat Idy był pierwszym wpisem na blogu dotyczącym brakującego ewolucyjnego ogniwa. Nie ostatnim zapewne – ogniw…
You all probably remember Darwinius, that little extinct primate that caused such a huge fuss last year (the image at left is…
Im letzten Jahr gab es ja einige Aufregungen um „Ida“, einem aus der Grube Messel bei Darmstadt stammenden Affenfossil, das…
Na blogu Respectful Insolence bardzo ciekawe porównanie rzeczywistych wniosków z pewnego naukowego artykułu (o wpływie fruktozy…
A radiograph of Darwinius masillae, aka "Ida" It was the fossil infamously hyped as the scientific discovery “THAT WILL CHANGE…
Williams, Richard Kay, Christopher Kirk and Callum Ross have published a new paper in the Journal of Human Evolution…
Artist rendering of Darwinius. Image: Julius T. …
2009 will go down as the year when open access publication really, truly made its mark in the field of vertebrate paleontology.
[By Peter Binfield, Managing Editor - PLoS ONE | originally posted at Everyone - PLoS ONE community blog] 'It was on Dec 20th…
The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a non-profit organisation committed to making the world’s scientific and medical…
Yesterday afternoon, I received an exciting press release from PLoS (the text of which is largely similar to this blog post) …
Writing papers is fun, but rather pointless unless anyone reads them, uses them, and cites them. How do we find out if anyone…
In the previous two posts of this series, I discussed the past, present, and future of the internet mailing list--along with…
Da questa rubrica ne abbiamo parlato più volte: quando una notizia scientifica di grido arriva nelle mani della stampa…
After all of the…
Others have said it before me, but I think PLoS ONE and online journals like it represent the future of scientific publishing.
I have been blogging and tweeting the dead horse primate that is Ida Darwinius masillae for several days now, culminating in…
By now you’ve probably heard about Ida, the newly discovered fossil being heralded by many as “the missing link” in human…
Leave it to me to go out camping in the wilderness while the most important discovery in the history of mankind was being…
Darwinius masillae and the fallacy of a "missing link" See thro' this air, this ocean, and this…
Nada a respeito deste fóssil é ordinário.A vida de Ida, o mais completo fóssil de primata encontrado até então, termina às…
I brought this up back in February regarding the new stegosaur Miragaia longicollum; about how regardless of the claims made by…
Unless you have been living under a slab of oil shale, you will have already heard, read and seen quite a lot about the Eocene…
May…
I don't even know where to start. The full media onslaught that is "Ida" or Darwinius masillae has been all the buzz since it…
James Randerson, The palaeontologist who brought fossil Ida to the world, The Guardian, May 19, 2009. Excerpt: ...There…
Darwinius…
I just downloaded my copy of the sensational, upcoming movie-of-the-week the “Complete Primate Skeleton from the Middle Eocene…
Ayer se presentó un fósil clave para el estudio de la evolución humana y de los primates. Un pequeño ser similar a un lemur de…
Poor Darwinius, getting all this attention that it can never possibly live up to. Thankfully, a number of blogs out there are…
Complete Primate Skeleton from the Middle Eocene of Messel in Germany: Morphology and Paleobiology. 2009. J. Franzen, et al.
Participating in Darwin conference this week, so not much time to comment on this announcement. The discovery of Darwinius…
An article published recently, by Franzen et al. (2009), describing Darwinius masillae, a Middle Eocene aged fossil from Messel…
By…
Articles in The Guardian in London announced today a remarkably well-preserved fossil--named Ida--that is being interpreted as…
On Tuesday, The New York Times ran its second article about a 47-million-year-old skeleton that is being described as “the most…
Here is a link to a recent publication describing the most complete known fossil primate specimen–Darwinius masillae–from PLoS…
Franzen et al.
Today's PLoS ONE includes an article on a new primate from the Eocene of Germany, Darwinius masillae. Poor Darwinius…
Meet Ida! a.k.a. Darwinius masillae. Ida is a 47…