Fossil News: The Journal of Avocational Paleontology: Vol. 19, No. 2

National and international news from the world of vertebrate and invertebrate paleontology, advice for amateur and para-professional fossil collectors, updates on important issues in paleontology, paleoart & photography, original book reviews, and many other features.

In the Summer 2016 issue:

-- a report on Jurassic plant fossils from Western Cuba

-- the first of a two-part series on the discovery of "Dee the Mammoth" in Wyoming

-- a "speculative paleoart" essay on the appearance and development of pterosaur embyos

-- a field trip report to view the counterpart of the famous "Berlin Archaeopteryx"

-- the saga of how a talented artists used ink from the fossil of an extinct Cretaceous octopus to paint the animal's portrait

-- a paleontologist's analysis of recent efforts to use microscopic evidence to reconstruct animal color in "deep time"

-- the Summer issue's featured paleoartist, Gareth Monger

- reviews of new books and literature & much more.