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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 artist 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.