Green Tea and Velociraptors

This was originally posted here. Mass extinctions are insanely catastrophic, but important, events that punctuate the history of life on Earth. The Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary, around 145 millio...

https://blogs.egu.eu/network/palaeoblog/2016/02/26/why-i-think-the-jurassiccretaceous-boundary-is-super-important/

This was originally posted here! Happy New Year everyone! It’s that time of year when all the summaries of an amazing year of research are coming out, and goodness, what a year it’s been! The...

https://blogs.egu.eu/network/palaeoblog/2016/01/04/which-palaeontology-stories-in-2015-captured-the-publics-imagination/

This was originally posted here. I mentioned in a previous post how important it is for researchers to equip themselves with knowledge about copyright issues (like this), and to become active in...

https://blogs.egu.eu/network/palaeoblog/2015/12/20/how-to-write-to-your-meps-about-european-copyright-reform/

This was originally posted on the PLOS Paleo blog Crocodiles are freakin’ amazing animals. They’ve been around for about 250 million years, and throughout this time have survived two mass ext...

https://blogs.egu.eu/network/palaeoblog/2015/12/15/new-fossil-croc-on-the-block/

This was originally posted at: https://thewinnower.com/papers/2301-my-open-science-story It never really occurred to me not to be open. From the moment I started my PhD, I made a promise to myse...

https://blogs.egu.eu/network/palaeoblog/2015/10/21/getting-into-open-science/

New research on crocodiles shows that a combination of changing sea levels and temperatures were responsible for driving their biodiversity over millions of years. Living crocodiles are threatene...

https://blogs.egu.eu/network/palaeoblog/2015/09/24/crocodiles-feeling-the-heat-of-extinction/

Yes, Nessie had to be in the title. Am I sorry? A little. But not enough to not use it. Colleagues from the University of Edinburgh and myself have described the first Scottish crocodile fossil! ...

https://blogs.egu.eu/network/palaeoblog/2015/09/11/nessie-dwarfed-by-new-scottish-crocodile/

Earth’s history is punctuated by extreme events known as mass extinctions. The End-Permian extinction, 252 million years ago, is believed to be the biggest, killing 90 % or more of all species ...

https://blogs.egu.eu/network/palaeoblog/2015/09/11/molecular-clocks-and-the-end-permian-mass-extinction/

A new species of extinct dolphin closely related to modern Amazonian ‘river dolphins’, but which dwelled in ancient oceans, is helping to solve the mystery of how and when dolphins adapted fo...

https://blogs.egu.eu/network/palaeoblog/2015/09/07/new-species-of-river-dolphin-reveals-their-ancient-marine-origins/

The ARCS (Advancing Research Communication and Scholarship) have launched a new ‘open scholarship’ competition. The aim is simple: describe your ‘open science story’, and you could win $1...

https://blogs.egu.eu/network/palaeoblog/2015/09/05/new-open-science-competition-through-arcs/