Board Thread:Fossil Fuels/@comment-3213993-20151028044038

The 2015 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting has come and gone, and various paleontologists have talked about their research. The PDF is here, and I have noticed some interesting-sounding upcoming papers and research from Mary Schweitzer and her team. They include an immunological study of Citipati claw remains hinting at keratin preservation, and an examination of molecular preservation of Dreadnoughtus. A look at this page suggests that we may get the latter paper soon.

Another abstract from Arhat Abzhanov, who is studying developmental and morphological evolution of archosaur skulls, says that his team has managed to generate an ancestrally large maxillary region in bird embryos. This is in addition to his recent achievement of turning of premaxilla fusion in chick embryos. 