Vote for your story of the year – palaeontology
ByEd Yong
December 07, 2009
This is Round Two of the NERS Stories of the Year Reader’s Poll. To reiterate, or for those of you who’ve joined us late, I am going to select the most interesting stories from this blog over the last year by getting people to vote across a series of nine polls. Each will focus on a different theme and the last one will round-up missed stories and late-comers.
The animal behaviour poll is still going strong and this one will look at palaeontology. Here’s your selection:
- Breaking the Link – Darwinius revealed as ancestor of nothing
- Raptorex shows that T.rex body plan evolved at 100th the size
- Dinosaur proteins, cells and blood vessels recovered from Bracyhlophosaurus
- Puijila, the walking seal – a beautiful transitional fossil
- Tianyulong – a fuzzy dinosaur that makes the origin of feathers fuzzier
- Titanoboa – thirteen metres, one tonne, largest snake ever
- Fossil foetus shows that early whales gave birth on land
- The plague of tyrants – a common bird parasite that infected Tyrannosaurus
What’s your favourite palaeontology story of the year?(online surveys)
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