Stories contributed by David Peters
Pappochelys: STILL not the ancestor of turtles, no matter what you read in Nature12
To Science and Technology on Friday Jul 19 2019 16:27
The flying fish (Exocoetus) enters the LRT alongside the swordfish10
To Science and Technology on Thursday Jul 18 2019 14:11
Testing for bipedalism in archosaurs (and pterosaurs)10
To Science and Technology on Wednesday Jul 17 2019 14:12
Indrasaurus and Microraptor: the inside story7
To Science and Technology on Tuesday Jul 16 2019 14:19
This month: 8 years of PterosaurHeresies and ReptileEvolution.com13
To Science and Technology on Monday Jul 15 2019 14:35
Feathers and fangs: What is Hesperornithoides?10
To Science and Technology on Sunday Jul 14 2019 14:14
The other clade descending from speedy jacks includes slower eels and anglers10
To Science and Technology on Saturday Jul 13 2019 14:19
Saurichthys: a Triassic ‘tuna’ close to the last of the lobefins12
To Science and Technology on Friday Jul 12 2019 14:11
Another seahorse sister: the electric elephantfish (Gnathonemus)12
To Science and Technology on Thursday Jul 11 2019 14:11
‘Close relatives’ of the enigmatic Tetraodontiformes6
To Science and Technology on Wednesday Jul 10 2019 14:11
What is the sister group of the ‘Teleostei’ (bony ray-fin fish)?4
To Science and Technology on Tuesday Jul 09 2019 14:28
Three basic mistakes in a new dino origin paper24
To Science and Technology on Monday Jul 08 2019 14:11
Revisiting the predatory metathere clade, Sparassodonta8
To Science and Technology on Sunday Jul 07 2019 14:35
The salamanderfish and the lizardfish enter the LRT together8
To Science and Technology on Saturday Jul 06 2019 18:58
Snake origin paper fails due to genomics and fakes an ancestral snake skull23
To Science and Technology on Friday Jul 05 2019 14:11
Devonian Cheirolepis has a living deep water sister10
To Science and Technology on Thursday Jul 04 2019 14:19
Hegetotherium and Pachyrukhos: not ungulates and not notoungulates7
To Science and Technology on Wednesday Jul 03 2019 14:19
The deep-sea gulper eel (Eurypharynx) also arises from rhizodontid lobefins6
To Science and Technology on Tuesday Jul 02 2019 14:03
The genesis of teeth in vertebrates11
To Science and Technology on Monday Jul 01 2019 14:12
One little shield-bearing aquarium catfish converges with Devonian placoderms14
To Science and Technology on Sunday Jun 30 2019 14:19
The little noticed connection between swordfish and gars21
To Science and Technology on Saturday Jun 29 2019 15:11
The primitive arowana (Osteoglossum) enters the LRT11
To Science and Technology on Friday Jun 28 2019 14:11
New origin of dinosaurs video by Dr. Sterling Nesbitt7
To Science and Technology on Thursday Jun 27 2019 14:19
Goodbye to another traditional clade: ‘Holostei’6
To Science and Technology on Wednesday Jun 26 2019 14:12
Triassic Pholidophorus nests with Devonian Strunius5
To Science and Technology on Wednesday Jun 26 2019 12:12
Mola mola enters the LRT13
To Science and Technology on Tuesday Jun 25 2019 17:27
Diodon, the pufferfish, enters the LRT4
To Science and Technology on Monday Jun 24 2019 14:12
Electric eels and anglerfish? They don’t look similar…21
To Science and Technology on Sunday Jun 23 2019 15:11
The tarpon (Megalops): closer to piranhas than to eels in the LRT20
To Science and Technology on Saturday Jun 22 2019 15:02
The giant oarfish (Regalecus) is a kind of seahorse!24
To Science and Technology on Friday Jun 21 2019 15:10
Barameda: transitional between lobefins and moray eels36
To Science and Technology on Thursday Jun 20 2019 14:19
The European eel is a barracuda sister9
To Science and Technology on Wednesday Jun 19 2019 14:10
As placoderm sisters, is there an armored catfish?10
To Science and Technology on Tuesday Jun 18 2019 15:11
The moray eel: a living lobefin without lobes or fins6
To Science and Technology on Monday Jun 17 2019 14:12
A closer look at Cabonnichthys, another human ancestor59
To Science and Technology on Sunday Jun 16 2019 15:19
Surprise! The longnose gar (Lepisosteus) enters the LRT with sticklebacks and seahorses33
To Science and Technology on Saturday Jun 15 2019 14:50
Fresh data on little Ningchengopterus (not a baby pterosaur)7
To Science and Technology on Friday Jun 14 2019 14:04
Prenatal development in pterosaurs14
To Science and Technology on Thursday Jun 13 2019 14:11
Two piranhas nest with the bowfin in the LRT110
To Science and Technology on Wednesday Jun 12 2019 14:27
Restoring Plagiomene (incomplete basal placental)8
To Science and Technology on Tuesday Jun 11 2019 15:04
Mystacodon: still NOT the earliest known toothed mysticete6
To Science and Technology on Tuesday Jun 11 2019 14:51
The weird ratfish, Iniopteryx, enters the LRT31
To Science and Technology on Monday Jun 10 2019 23:34
Ischnacanthus: basal to spiny sharks and most ray-fin fish9
To Science and Technology on Sunday Jun 09 2019 14:18
Rhincodon, the whale shark, enters the LRT basal to sharks and placoderms11
To Science and Technology on Saturday Jun 08 2019 16:03
Belantsea, an odd Early Carboniferous ratfish4
To Science and Technology on Friday Jun 07 2019 14:19
Sloth DNA results “differ substantially from morphology-based concepts”18
To Science and Technology on Thursday Jun 06 2019 15:59
Lophias, the goosefish, enters to LRT8
To Science and Technology on Thursday Jun 06 2019 14:28
The shark-like pre-sturgeon, Chondrosteus, enters the LRT8
To Science and Technology on Wednesday Jun 05 2019 14:03
In praise of Smithsonian muralist Jay Matternes14
To Science and Technology on Tuesday Jun 04 2019 19:59
Thoracopterus: a Triassic flying fish sister to giant Cretaceous Xiphactinus4
To Science and Technology on Tuesday Jun 04 2019 14:11
Menaspis: a late placoderm and early catfish2
To Science and Technology on Monday Jun 03 2019 14:11
‘Horny’ Falcatus enters the LRT44
To Science and Technology on Sunday Jun 02 2019 14:10
Placoderms and the origin of teeth16
To Science and Technology on Saturday Jun 01 2019 14:19
New basal vertebrates added to the lineage of humans9
To Science and Technology on Friday May 31 2019 14:22
The swordfish (genus: Xiphias) enters the LRT10
To Science and Technology on Thursday May 30 2019 14:43
The swordfish (genus: Xiphia) enters the LRT9
To Science and Technology on Thursday May 30 2019 14:35
The barracuda (genus: Sphyraena) enters the LRT17
To Science and Technology on Wednesday May 29 2019 14:51
Reconstructing the wicked skull of Onychodus6
To Science and Technology on Tuesday May 28 2019 14:59
A small Cheirolepis gets a new face7
To Science and Technology on Monday May 27 2019 14:58
The nomenclature of skull bones in primitive lungfish7
To Science and Technology on Sunday May 26 2019 15:59
Kenichthys is supposed to be a basal tetrapodomorph16
To Science and Technology on Saturday May 25 2019 17:26
Stensioella is supposed to be a basal placoderm7
To Science and Technology on Friday May 24 2019 14:19
The halibut and electric eel enter the LRT… together!260
To Science and Technology on Thursday May 23 2019 21:34
Devonian Ymeria not added to the LRT4
To Science and Technology on Wednesday May 22 2019 14:19
Guiyu and Psarolepis enter the LRT together315
To Science and Technology on Tuesday May 21 2019 16:11
Bird neck length correlated to leg length7
To Science and Technology on Monday May 20 2019 14:19
What is Alcmonavis poeschli?20
To Science and Technology on Sunday May 19 2019 14:42
Ozarcus mapesae is not a Palaeozoic shark12
To Science and Technology on Saturday May 18 2019 14:43
Clarias, the walking catfish, is a living placoderm29
To Science and Technology on Friday May 17 2019 14:11
Upper Jurassic tidal flat pterosaur tracks from Poland21
To Science and Technology on Friday May 17 2019 00:58
The skull of the bizarre mudpuppy (Necturus) under review26
To Science and Technology on Thursday May 16 2019 14:27
Thelodus and Squatina: two overlooked human ancestors11
To Science and Technology on Wednesday May 15 2019 14:11
Karaurus and the origin of frogs + salamanders7
To Science and Technology on Tuesday May 14 2019 14:28
Mapping the rabbitfish (Chimaera) skull12
To Science and Technology on Monday May 13 2019 14:59
Chlamydoselachus and the loss of gill slit sets5
To Science and Technology on Sunday May 12 2019 14:11
Ambopteryx enters the LRT…19
To Science and Technology on Saturday May 11 2019 14:18
Cladoselache and Doliodus enter the LRT21
To Science and Technology on Friday May 10 2019 14:34
Sharks and sturgeons: fish with a lateral temporal fenestra5
To Science and Technology on Thursday May 09 2019 14:11
Like Yi qi, the new Ambopteryx does NOT have bat wings67
To Science and Technology on Wednesday May 08 2019 21:58
Novel origin for the Acanthodii9
To Science and Technology on Wednesday May 08 2019 15:43
Latest pterosaur cladogram fails on many levels8
To Science and Technology on Tuesday May 07 2019 14:42
Fatal flaw in Taylori et al. 2019 hypothesis on avian flapping genesis3
To Science and Technology on Tuesday May 07 2019 14:26
Strunius: transitional between lobe fins and ray fins15
To Science and Technology on Monday May 06 2019 14:51
A new cat-sized flightless azhdarchoid from Canada25
To Science and Technology on Sunday May 05 2019 14:11
Guinyu: another of your Silurian ancestors22
To Science and Technology on Saturday May 04 2019 21:50
New yeti tracks?37
To Science and Technology on Friday May 03 2019 15:43
Entelognathus identifies enigmatic lungfish skull bones8
To Science and Technology on Thursday May 02 2019 23:50
Ray-fin Xiphactinus enters the LRT with the lobe-fins and Cheirolepis17
To Science and Technology on Thursday May 02 2019 00:11
Temnospondyl evolution (Fortuny and Steyer 2019)6
To Science and Technology on Wednesday May 01 2019 09:35
Air-breathing Polypterus: it’s in our direct ancestry16
To Science and Technology on Tuesday Apr 30 2019 02:11
Where do sea horses come from?109
To Science and Technology on Saturday Apr 27 2019 14:11
Ever hear of Palaeothentes?14
To Science and Technology on Friday Apr 26 2019 14:18
UV light vs. LCA (last common ancestor) approach to flapping flight in birds8
To Science and Technology on Thursday Apr 25 2019 14:27
When elbows and knees start bending in basal tetrapods4
To Science and Technology on Wednesday Apr 24 2019 14:11
Plagiosuchus: confluent orbital-temporal fenestra, like birds and mammals6
To Science and Technology on Tuesday Apr 23 2019 15:27
Untangling the Sclerothorax chimaera9
To Science and Technology on Monday Apr 22 2019 20:59
Dvinia enters the TST14
To Science and Technology on Sunday Apr 21 2019 15:43
Trypanognathus: the most primitive fingers and toes in the LRT27
To Science and Technology on Saturday Apr 20 2019 17:11
Therocephalians evolved to smaller size? Large Carnivora did not?103
To Science and Technology on Thursday Apr 18 2019 15:58
Kammerer 2019 nests a new dicynodont305
To Science and Technology on Wednesday Apr 17 2019 14:35
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