Our newest #SciComm editorial covers our recent publication identifying salt glands in spinosaurs, adding a whole new layer to the great "aquatic" debate.

Read the editorial here: doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2026.2686503

Read the original paper here: doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2026.2669954

Our newest #ScienceCommunication editorial focuses on a new paper that constructed a fully OA, reusable dataset on sauropod DMTA - a great early case study of our journal's recent transition to an Open and FAIR data policy! 🦕

Read the editorial here: doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2026.2672317

Read the original paper: doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2026.2627437

For #FossilFriday, we're pleased to announce Dr. Brooke Long-Fox as our new deputy editor-in-chief!

Dr. Long-Fox's research explores how organisms respond to environmental change across spatial & temporal scales. She studies chemosymbiotic lucinid bivalves to investigate how symbiosis, shell morphology, & environmental gradients shape biodiversity. As Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Historical Biology, she hopes to strengthen open & FAIR data practices & support transparent, reproducible research.

Reminder that Historical Biology is now operating under a new Publicly Available data policy 🔓️️️

All submitting authors must make their data &/or code available in an online repository that mints a DOI at submission. See the link below for more information: https://authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/data-sharing-policies/publicly-available/

Reminder that Historical Biology is now operating under a new Publicly Available data policy 🔓️️

All submitting authors must make their data &/or code available in an online repository that mints a DOI at submission. See the link below for more information: https://authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/data-sharing-policies/publicly-available/

Reminder that Historical Biology is now operating under a new Publicly Available data policy 🔓️

All submitting authors must make their data &/or code available in an online repository that mints a DOI at submission. See the link below for more information: https://authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/data-sharing-policies/publicly-available/

Historical Biology is now operating under a new Publicly Available data policy 🔓

All submitting authors must make their data &/or code available in an online repository that mints a DOI at submission. See the link below for more information: https://authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/data-sharing-policies/publicly-available/

📣Editor spotlight

Dr. Sue Beardmore uses skeletal taphonomy (articulation and completeness) to indicate past environments. She works for Historic Environment Scotland, reviewed fossil collections for National Museums Scotland and annually excavates Mesozoic vertebrates with the Natural History Museum of Utah

📣Editor spotlight

Dr. Soledad Gouiric-Cavalli is a palaeoichthyologist at the Vertebrate Paleontology Division, at National University of La Plata (CONICET). Her research interests are studying the ichthyofaunas of Argentina and Antarctica 🐟 🇦🇷

For #FossilFriday, we have a fossil from our editor Andrea Villa.

This is GMH Ce IV-4057-1933, holotype of Geiseleptes delfinoi from the Eocene of Geiseltal, Germany (housed in the Geiseltal Collection, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale)). This gecko species represents the oldest member of the gekkotan family Sphaerodactylidae currently known, and it is related to the only sphaerodactylid living nowadays in Europe, the Western Mediterranean endemic Euleptes europaea.