Cambrian fossils will get on your nerves
Nature Ecology & Evolution Community,
Exceptional 508-million-year-old fossils inform the organization of the nervous system in some of the earliest relatives of…
Panton Fellowship updates: June (month 3)
Ross Mounce,
It’s that time again… time to write my monthly Panton Fellowship update. The trouble is, as I start writing this it’s 6am (London…
Decay Processes and Chordate Phylogeny
Going Ape,
I have just read a Nature paper reporting some experimental work studying the pattern of decay in two soft-bodied species…
Rotting the tree of life
The Lancelet,
There are good papers, great papers, and those clever little papers that make you say "I wish I'd thought of that!". Before I…
Kissing the lipless
The Mermaid's Tale,
“Holly, it’s fossil time!” My doctoral adviser, let’s call him Sid, made an appointment with a man from Philipsburg—which is…
Fish Heads, Fish Heads, Rolly Polly Fish Heads,...
PALAEOBLOG,
Non-random decay of chordate characters causes bias in fossil interpretation. 2010. R. S. Sansom, et al. Nature, published…
Rotten Fish and the Chordate Tree of Life
dechronization,
The origin of vertebrates is part of a larger story involving the evolution of a more inclusive group of kin, the chordates…
The Lampreys of Port Lligat: Soft Phylogeny with Decaying Carcasses
iEditor,
I've long been fascinated by the question of the origin of the vertebrates, the group of animals that includes ourselves. A…
Morte apaga rastros da evolução
Gene Repórter,
Robert S. Sansom e colaboradores da University of Leicester, R.U., provavelmente tiveram um dos laboratórios mais inabitáveis…