PLoS ONE recently published articlesDid dinosaurs have feathers? More and more fossils are being uncovered suggesting that this is indeed the case. But some fossils are suspected to be hoaxes and others are difficult to study. Not being made of bone, feathers do not preserve well. While there are imprints of feathers around the fossilized skeletons, the feathers are [...]
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Raw data, statistical analysis, standard forms of graphing the result… sometimes observing these obscures what is really interesting about the information at hand. A clever or novel ways of visualizing data may, on the other hand, uncover phenomena that just jump at us from the image: “Wow! This is interesting!”
In other cases, while statistical [...]
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Mimoperadectes houdei, a new species of peradectid marsupial formally described by the authors of the new PLoS ONE paper, Cranial Anatomy of the Earliest Marsupials and the Origin of Opossums, is too small to count as megafauna but it certainly is very charismatic. This week’s PLoS ONE featured image is taken from Figure 6 of [...]
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As we approach PLoS ONE’s third birthday (or, rather, our third second birthday), this week’s featured image comes from a paper published on the day of the journal’s launch, December 20, 2006, Predator Mimicry: Metalmark Moths Mimic Their Jumping Spider Predators, by Jadranka Rota and David L. Wagner.
In their article, Rota and Wagner report a [...]
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A study by David Rand and Thomas Pfeiffer of Harvard University published in PLoS ONE yesterday reveals how scientific journals’ different publication and review policies can affect the number of citations of published papers. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) offers three different publication tracks [...]
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This week’s PLoS ONE featured image is taken from a paper published today by Denver Fowler and colleagues at the Museum of the Rockies, Montana State University. In the article, entitled, Predatory Functional Morphology in Raptors: Interdigital Variation in Talon Size Is Related to Prey Restraint and Immobilisation Technique, the authors report that the feet [...]
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The New Oxford American Dictionary’s Word of the Year for 2009, unfriend, has prompted much debate online as to whether the chosen word should really have been defriend instead. Either way, both unfriend and defriend are examples of a word’s meaning being changed through the addition of an affix; in this case, unfriend (and defriend) [...]
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This week’s PLoS ONE featured image is taken from a paper by Michael G. Anderson at Massey University, New Zealand, and colleagues Csaba Moskát, Miklós Bán, Tomáš Grim, Phillip Cassey and Mark E. Hauber. The article is entitled, Egg Eviction Imposes a Recoverable Cost of Virulence in Chicks of a Brood Parasite.
The common cuckoo (Cuculus [...]
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We must be approaching Halloween because after last week’s news stories about the discovery of an (almost) herbivorous spider, reported in Current Biology, a new species of spider has now woven its way into the headlines. In their PLoS ONE article published today, Matjaž Kuntner of the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of [...]
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This week’s featured PLoS ONE image is taken from an article entitled, ECG Response of Koalas to Tourists Proximity: A Preliminary Study, by Yan Ropert-Coudert of the Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien, France, and colleagues in Australia and Japan.
Koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) are listed by the IUCN as a vulnerable species and their distribution is now limited [...]
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It was too difficult to choose just one new PLoS ONE article with interesting multimedia to highlight this week, especially when I realised that the journal was a-tweet with fascinating bird research this week. You can choose whether you most enjoyed reading about the albatrosses, the budgerigars or the eagles.
Kentaro Sakamoto of Hokkaido University, Japan, [...]
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Our featured PLoS ONE image this week comes from an article published yesterday by Alicia Montesinos and colleagues from the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) in Spain. In the paper, entitled, Demographic and Genetic Patterns of Variation among Populations of Arabidopsis thaliana from Contrasting Native Environments, the authors describe a demographic study of native [...]
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This week’s PLoS ONE featured image is taken from an article published today by Maria Antonietta Costa of the Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile, and colleagues, in which the researchers describe the discovery in the archaeological cemetery of Coyo Oriente in Northern Chile of four female skulls with visible boney facial lesions. Using PCR-sequenced [...]
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PLoS ONE has published papers before on the evolution and significance of gestures and other forms of non-verbal communication in humans and in primates but an article published last week, Márta Gácsi and colleagues in Hungary and Austria studied the differences in gesture comprehension between pet dogs and socialised wolves and explain how their findings [...]
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Four years ago (this month actually), I remember watching the first news reports of hurricane Katrina ravaging the Gulf Coast. Some of the images of the devastating storm I can still recall vividly today. As years passed, news about the recovery effort in New Orleans dwindled. So I was interested to [...]
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