Catch up on NHM blogs from the recent Lyme Regis Fossil Festival, attended by Charlie Underwood:
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/community/research/earth_sciences_news/b...
Want to know about the 2015 Festival? http://www.fossilfestival.co.uk/
A rare Goblin shark was recently caught in the Gulf of Mexico:
http://news.sciencemag.org/signal-noise/2014/05/rare-goblin-shark-spotted
....Last Friday I scanned two fossil specimens from the collection of the Natural History Museum. I'm really excited to use this technology on fossils myself, for the first time, and can't wait to see the results..
Here is a link to the news about the new sawshark species; published in December 2013:
http://www.sci-news.com/biology/science-pristiophorus-lanae-new-species-...
Here is a link to the Digimorph website:
http://digimorph.org/specimens/Heterodontus_francisci/
This is very useful and informative. We can browse slices, watch videos...and it also shows 3 stages of development...a very good resource!
The paper is titled ''The secret of the mermaid's purse: Phylogenetic affinities within the Rajidae and the evolution of a novel reproductive strategy in skates'', .by Chiquillo et al, 2014.
A new publication from Gareth Fraser's lab: ''Evolution and developmental diversity of tooth regeneration''
Welcome to our project blog!
This is my first entry, and I would like to kick off with news about a fossil sawfish, found in the ENCI quarry near Maestricht, the Netherlands.
Translated from the article in Dutch:
''Thursday, December 19, 2013 11:11
Fossil sawfish snout, an unique discovery
In the marl quarry of ENCI, Maastricht, the snout , a so-called rostrum, of a fossil sawfish was found.
