Everything we know about dinosaurs comes from their fossil record, and how we as humans document and interpret that. As such, our understanding of their evolution is based on what is known at any given point in time, and subject to change as new discoveries are made. As any science should be! Alessandro Chiarenza, Matt […]
Our mission at paleorXiv is to make the open sharing of paleontological research as simple as possible for researchers. We’ve published 65 articles already, and one of the most common pieces of feedback we get is how easy the process is, often only taking a few minutes. For the typical submission process, all you need […]
Snakes are beautiful and bizarre animals. Limbless vertebrates, they have been around for more than 150 million years, and occupy almost every ecological role possible, including living under the sea! Over geological time, they have come in all sorts of shapes and sizes (typically still sausage-ish shaped), and have a unique evolutionary history. One particular […]
Happy New Year from the paleorXiv team! We hope you all had a relaxing festive season, whatever you got up to. We thought it would be nice to start 2018 by updating you all on what we’ve been up to at paleorXiv, and see what the future has in store for us all. New GitHub […]
Jurassic World, you got it all wrong. Why make up a new dinosaur by fusing genetics, when you already have one that was terrifying enough? And also real. Source: Tyrannosaurs – the weird lovers we always wanted them to be? | PLOS Paleo Community
Initial success It’s been almost 2 months since paleorXiv launched! Since then, 35 papers have been published on the platform. We maintain a database of them all here. We have also created a Code of Conduct and a Diversity Statement, developed with the help of the wider community. These are to help foster paleorXiv as a welcoming community […]
So, I’ve been back in Berlin now for almost 3 months after taking 10 months off to work-travel. And crikey, what a time it has been! There’s been so much happening recently, and we’re in the middle of conference season too. Here’s just a list of stuff I’ve written or been involved in the last […]
Today, the Center for Open Science issued a press release announcing the launch of 6 new preprint servers, including paleorXiv. To compliment this, here is our own press release (PDF available here). Press release We are pleased to announce the launch of a free digital archive for Palaeontology, paleorXiv. Created with the technical assistance of […]
This week, I am very excited to announce the launch of paleorXiv! On the first day, we published 16 manuscripts alone, which is a great success by any measure! What does this mean? PaleorXiv provides a non-profit platform for paleontologists to freely upload their working papers, pre-prints, accepted manuscripts (post-prints), and published papers. We also […]
It’s raining crocs We have a new paper out! An international team of researchers, including myself, have published on a new fossil specimen of a crocodile-ancestor (Crocodyliformes). The specimen is around 160 million years old, from the Middle Jurassic of the Isle of Skye in Scotland. It’s Open Access, of course, and available here. It’s […]