Vote for your story of the year – palaeontology

This is Round Two of the NERS Stories of the Year Reader’s Poll. To reiterate, or for those of you who’ve joined us late, I am going to select the most interesting stories from this blog over the last year by getting people to vote across a series of nine polls. Each will focus on a different theme and the last one will round-up missed stories and late-comers.

The animal behaviour poll is still going strong and this one will look at palaeontology. Here’s your selection: 

• Breaking the Link – Darwinius revealed as ancestor of nothing
• Raptorex shows that T.rex body plan evolved at 100th the size
• Dinosaur proteins, cells and blood vessels recovered from Bracyhlophosaurus
• Puijila, the walking seal – a beautiful transitional fossil
• Tianyulong – a fuzzy dinosaur that makes the origin of feathers fuzzier
• Titanoboa – thirteen metres, one tonne, largest snake ever
• Fossil foetus shows that early whales gave birth on land
• The plague of tyrants – a common bird parasite that infected Tyrannosaurus

What’s your favourite palaeontology story of the year?(online surveys)