Sharing in Paleontology leads to re-use

Submitted by Isabel Chadwick, Open University

This opinion piece on the PLOS Integrative Paleontology blog "And this is why we should always provide our data..." is about a  paleontologist who published data about dinosaur teeth in PLOS One, which was reused, leading to a new discovery about the evolution of small theropod dinosaurs.

Source: Andrew Farke. And this is why we should always provide our data. The Integrative PAleontologists (blog). January 25, 2013. Retrieved from http://blogs.plos.org/paleo/2013/01/25/and-this-is-why-we-should-always-provide-our-data/ 

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