Historical Biology

She also serves in leadership roles promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in the scientific community. As Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Historical Biology, she hopes to strengthen open and FAIR data practices and support transparent, reproducible research.

She collaborates on aquatic ecology projects examining productivity, nutrient availability & PFAS contaminants in modern rivers & contributes to efforts that develop AI-assisted tools for data curation, while advancing open & reproducible science through her work with MorphoBank.

For #FossilFriday, we're pleased to announce Dr. Brooke Long-Fox as our new deputy editor-in-chief! Dr. Brooke Long-Fox is a paleobiologist whose research explores how organisms respond to environmental change across spatial & temporal scales.

Hans left a huge mark in the field of palaeontology. He is well remembered by peers & enthusiasts for his thorough work & jolly sense of humour. He will be dearly missed by friends & colleagues at Historical Biology & beyond. Our thoughts are with his family at this time. (6/6)

Lastly, we have Pappochelys, which Hans called one of his favourite fossils. This diaspid reptile's discovery suggests turtles should also be considered diaspids. This critter, described by Hans in 2015, could thus be a stem turtle 🐢 Paper: nature.com/articles/natur… (5/6)

For #FossilFriday, we're paying tribute to fossils from the incredible work of our deputy editor-in-chief, Dr Hans Sues, who sadly passed away last weekend. This photo of him includes a cast of a Brontosaurus skull, a 20 m sauropod, from the Smithsonian where he worked 🦕(1/6)

Thrilled to announce that I’ve just become Associate Editor of Historical Biology journal @HistBiol! :) #Palaeobotany #oceanicisland

Reminder that Historical Biology is now operating under Publicly Available data policy 🔓 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: authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/data-sharing-p…

Reminder that Historical Biology is now operating under Publicly Available data policy 🔓 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: authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/data-sharing-p…

My review of Mark Witton's outstandingly good book King Tyrant, published 2025, is now online at Historical Biology ... tandfonline.com/eprint/UIQGIBH… hit me up if you want a pdf #dinosaurs #books

Reminder that Historical Biology is now operating under Publicly Available data policy 🔓️ 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: authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/data-sharing-p…

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: authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/data-sharing-p…

📣Editor spotlight Sue Beardmore uses skeletal taphonomy to indicate past environments. She works for Historic Environment Scotland, reviewed fossil collections for National Museums Scotland & 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 the gecko Geiseleptes delfinoi from the Eocene of Geiseltal, Germany. This species represents the oldest member of the gekkotan family Sphaerodactylidae currently known.

Historical Biology is hiring new associate editors! We are seeking associate editors in several areas including, but not limited to, terrestrial invertebrates, marine invertebrates, taphonomy, and ichnology. See the following for more details: think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recruit…