Pterosaur fossils are among the rarest and their eggs are even rarer. How then can we get an insight into the lifestyle of these flying reptiles? A wealth of new pterosaur fossils, including eggs, from China now provides exactly that.

Alan Jack Charig was Curator of Fossil Amphibians, Reptiles and Birds at the British Museum (Natural History) from 1961 to 1987. We here review his academic accomplishments and the impact of his work within vertebrate palaeontology. His position gave him considerable influence in the discussion of emerging theories and in how vertebrate palaeontology was portrayed to the public. His main areas ...

A new stem bythinine in Cretaceous Burmese amber and early evolution of specialized predatory behaviour in pselaphine rove beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) Zi-Wei Yin, Joseph Parker, Chen-Yang Cai, Di-Ying Huang & Li-Zhen Li To cite this article: Zi-Wei Yin, Joseph Parker, Chen-Yang Cai, Di-Ying Huang & Li-Zhen Li (2017): A new stem bythinine in Cretaceous Burmese amber and early evolution o...

What is your favourite/least favourite conference? I was inspired by the Cold Spring Harbour Meetings on Human Evolution and Disease in the 1990s which brought together the scientific world elite from various fields of human evolution. Unfortunately, dedicated conferences that include specialists from different fields working on human evolution such as palaeontology, archaeology, linguistic, bi...

Tyler R. Lyson1,2,*, Antoine Bercovici3, Stephen G. B. Chester4, Eric J. Sargis4,5, Dean Pearson6 and Walter G. Joyce5,7 Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA Marmarth Research Foundation, Marmarth, ND 58643, USA State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology (China University of Geosciences), Wuhan 430074, China Department of Anthropology...