Chinese fossil forgery in the last decade highlights some troubling trends in Chinese vertebrate paleontology (1–4). While fossil forgeries unfailingly stoke public fascination in a field capable of producing the infamous Piltdown man hoax, the widespread damages that forgery causes are often not sufficiently recognized. Amid the renaissance of Chinese paleontology evidenced by stunning discove...

Recovery of new decapod specimens from middle and late Eocene rocks of Pakistan prompted reevaluation of the known decapod fauna of the region. Specimens come from the Sulaiman Range in Balochistan, North-West Frontier, and Punjab provinces, and range temporally from the middle Lutetian through the Bartonian and possibly early Priabonian global marine ages. Proxicarpilius planifrons, Portunus s...

The purposes of classification and taxonomy are reviewed. Using examples from fields ranging from paleontology to planetology, I argue that non-exclusive classifications, which allow Pluto to be considered both a planet and a TNO, provide the most desirable approach to progress in our science.

Mari Bugti hills and surroundings belong to Sulaiman basin (fragment of Gondwana) lies under the territory Balochistan, South Punjab North Sindh (Pakistan) but luckily have diverse marine terrestrial sediments varying in age from Triassic Recent, petroleum a large number mineral resources especially huge gypsum cement resources, numerous suitable anticlinal structures world-famous paleontology....

There is little consistency in the notation and orientation terminology used in discussions of non-mammalian fossil vertebrate dentitions. The standardization of this terminology, as done in the medical and dental sciences, would facilitate all future research on fossil teeth. For mammals, we recommend following convention, where incisors, canines, premolars, and molars are abbreviated as In, C...