Blogs about: Practical Palaeontology
To me – to you: directions and descriptions
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David Hone wrote 4 days ago: Having covered the ongoing saga (though to be honest it’s less of a saga than a small novella) of th … more →
Cranial-Caudal vs Anterior-Posterior
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David Hone wrote 4 days ago: This is something I have been avoiding for a while as I know for a fact that this is divisive in the … more →
Some specimens are more equal than others
David Hone wrote 5 days ago: I got into a discussion with my colleagues the other day about the merits of collecting multiple spe … more →
A bit more on convergence
David Hone wrote 1 week ago: Before my brief hiatus with a trip to Shandong (very worthwhile, despite the illness that stuck me d … more →
Spiny-ness in mammals and rampant convergence
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David Hone wrote 1 week ago: As the title has already given away, I’m going to talk about mammals a bit on here for once (well, O … more →
Proof by illustration
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David Hone wrote 1 week ago: One might think that after developing as a science for the last two hundred years, palaeontology wou … more →
Tremble ye mighty referees and authors
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David Hone wrote 2 weeks ago: Possibly. Anyway, I’ve now been formally taken on as one of the associate editors of the palaeontolo … more →
Memory and the fossil record – laboured analogy time
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David Hone wrote 4 weeks ago: It occurred to me the other evening that the human memory can serve as quite a good analogy for the … more →
Keeping up with the literature
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David Hone wrote 4 weeks ago: My colleagues Mike Taylor and Andy Farke among others have done an admirable job of promoting the co … more →
Casts vs sculptures
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David Hone wrote 1 month ago: A long time ago in the dim and distant past on here I wrote about fossil chimeras and mounting skele … more →
The casqued cassowary
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David Hone wrote 1 month ago: While we are talking birds with odd beaks, skulls, ornaments and all that, it seemed most pertinent … more →
Underprinting and more tricky tracks
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David Hone wrote 1 month ago: A recent discovery of ‘giant’ sauropod tracks in France has got the media all of a flutt … more →
Footprints and footpads - trusting those tricky tracks
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David Hone wrote 2 months ago: Just a quick point this time out on an obscure (as far as the literature goes at least) and unusual … more →
Spotting ontogeny
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David Hone wrote 2 months ago: I recently covered the issues of ontogeny for taxonomy but deliberately did not cover how one can sp … more →
Guest Post: Writing a press release - a guide for researchers
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David Hone wrote 2 months ago: My recent post on the media coveragea of my paper on theropod feeding generated a huge amount of int … more →
Sexual dimorphism and taxonomy
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David Hone wrote 2 months ago: The final of my posts on characters that vary in populations that can cause problems for taxonomists … more →
Ontogeny and taxonomy
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David Hone wrote 2 months ago: Having covered intraspecific variation, it seemed only appropriate to nail down another oft missed ( … more →
Intraspecific variation and taxonomy
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David Hone wrote 2 months ago: One aspect of vertebrate palaeontology that often gets overlooked is how much individuals can vary f … more →
Another decaying carcass
David Hone wrote 3 months ago: Long term readers will be familiar with my post on decaying donkeys in Mexico (that also prompted th … more →
