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Monday, 12 August 2024
Tutorial 44: how to avoid using a preoccupied name for your new genus
The world is full of wonderful animals, both extant and extinct, and they all have names. As a result, it’s fairly common for newly named animals to be given names already in use — as for example with the giant Miocene sperm whale “Leviathan“ (now Livyatan). BUt there are ways to avoid walking into this
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More on PalArch: it’s dead
Last time we talked about the evident hijacking of the PalArch Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. No-one seemed to know what had happened or how. I managed to track down Andre J. Veldmeijer, who was involved [...]Stellenausschreibungen
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The 86th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society was an event I eagerly anticipated, and it didn’t disappoint. Hosted at the Palace of the Academies in Brussels, Belgium, the conference spanned from July [...]Reviviendo la fauna del pasado al estilo cartoon con Pyroraptor
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