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Fossils key to fulfilling Darwin's 160-year-old prediction December 12, 2018, University of Salford https://phys.org/news/2018-12-fossils-key-fulfilling-darwin-year-old.html The paper is: Beck R.M.D., and Baillie C. 2018. Improvements in the fossil record may largely resolve current conflicts between morphological and molecular estimates of mammal phylogeny. Proc. R. Soc. B. 285: 20181632. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/07/20/373191 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2018/07/20/373191.full.pdf https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2018.1632 Yours, Paul H.

Fossils of Mongolia Dr. Bolortsetseg Minjin, Institute for the Study of Mongolian Dinosaurs, talks about the future of Mongolian palaeontology. Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology Apr 18, 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up99B262WEQ Yours, Paul H.

Fossils We Want To Find. There’s a list of fossils I’d really like you to go out and find. Good luck. By Darren Naish, Scientific American Blog, July 21, 2017 https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/fossils-we-want-to-find Yours, Paul H.

My name is Rick, and of course just signed up. First and foremost, I apologize for my pretentious-sounding user name, but I tried several permutations of my name, but all seemed to be taken, and so I gave up in frustration and just used the nickname that people have given me. I'm an evolutionary biologist, a retired Dean and Professor from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. I stumbled on this site because, for the past few months, I've been consulting on an extensive, old private collection, dating back to the 1950s, that was bought by a local science and education store. I've been identifying, or verifying the identifications, of many hundreds if not thousands of fossils of every imaginable type, and, of course, determining fair market prices. And so, during my 'net surfing, I was directed to The Fossil Forum on several occasions, and became intrigued. And here I am. I may ask your collective advice at times regarding the identification of various items, and may on occasion just post a photo or two that some people might find interesting. I've got a load of them. This collection is truly astonishing.

Cyclops and Dragon Tongues: How Real Fossils Inspired Giant Myths By Stephanie Pappas, Live Science, July 18, 2017 https://www.livescience.com/59837-how-real-fossils-inspired-giant-myths.html Romano, M. and Avanzini, M., 2017. The skeletons of Cyclops and Lestrigons: misinterpretation of Quaternary vertebrates as remains of the mythological giants. Historical Biology, pp. 1-24. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08912963.2017.1342640 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317896323_The_skeletons_of_Cyclops_and_Lestrigons_misinterpretation_of_Quaternary_vertebrates_as_remains_of_the_mythological_giants Another paper is: Agnesi, V., Di Patti, C. and Truden, B., 2007. Giants and elephants of Sicily. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 273(1), pp. 263-270. https://iris.unipa.it/retrieve/handle/10447/18688/41318/Giants and Elephants of Sicily.pdf Yours, Paul H.