One of the most interesting research areas in organismal science is the cross-road between palaeontology and neontology, which puts togethe...

I really like the journal PeerJ , not only because it is open access and publishes the peer review process, but also because it's one o...

A colleague pointed me to a paper published last year in Science about a spectacular fossil find: an Eocene Physalis- fruit with a preserv...

Palaeontological phylogenetic researchers typically put a lot of effort into inferring trees. It has been argued (and occasionally pointed ...

In this post, I will show a network that I generated some time ago as illustration of a point: morphological data should not be used to inf...