Author Profile

About
Latest Posts

Dave Marshall

Dave Marshall is a mature PhD student at the University of Bristol where he is researching the evolution of chelicerates. Dave also publishes the palaeontology podcast, Palaeocast.

www.palaeocast.com

Latest posts by Dave Marshall (see all)

Newly discovered 500 million year old species offers insights into the ancestral arthropod - 31st January 2017
Meet Jogi and Birgit: scorpion lovers from the Permian period - 7th April 2016
The oldest and the scariest sea scorpion: a giant discovery - 1st September 2015

Newly discovered 500 million year old species offers insights into the ancestral arthropod

31/01/2017

BMC Series blog

Described today in BMC Evolutionary Biology is a new species of lobopodian, a group that lived around 500 million years ago and is ancestral to modern… Read more »

Meet Jogi and Birgit: scorpion lovers from the Permian period

07/04/2016

BMC Series blog

BMC Evolutionary Biology has today published research discovering a fossilized scorpion couple from the Permian period. Expert in the field, Dave Marshall… Read more »

The oldest and the scariest sea scorpion: a giant discovery

An artist's rendition of the sea scorpion

01/09/2015

BMC Series blog

Described today in BMC Evolutionary Biology is the new eurypterid, Pentecopterus decorahensis. In this guest blog, expert in the field Dave Marshall explains… Read more »

Author Profile

Dave Marshall

Latest posts by Dave Marshall (see all)

Newly discovered 500 million year old species offers insights into the ancestral arthropod

Meet Jogi and Birgit: scorpion lovers from the Permian period

The oldest and the scariest sea scorpion: a giant discovery

Our blogs

Latest BioMed Central Articles