Human-sized fossils a big discovery

Roy Plotnick, professor of earth and environmental sciences, talks about the discovery of prehistoric, human-size sea scorpion fossils on LiveScience.com.

“Ultimately, (reproductive coercion) is about power and control – the perpetrators get off on that feeling of having complete power over their partners, even to the point of controlling a bodily function exclusive to women: pregnancy.”

Jeanna Park, visiting clinical instructor in obstetrics and gynecology, on “reproductive coercion” or birth control sabotage, a form of partner abuse, Sept. 6 Reuters Health

“We need to face the consequences of what ISIS has done to children. [They are] traumatizing and indoctrinating a whole future generation.”​

Stevan Weine, professor of psychiatry and director of the International Center on Responses to Catastrophes, on the fate of ISIS’s child soldiers, Sept. 3 Newsweek

“To find something as well preserved as this is pretty exciting, especially given that it’s old and yet has features of more advanced forms. That tells us that somewhere in even older rocks should be even more ancestral forms to find.”

Roy Plotnick, professor of earth and environmental sciences, on the discovery of prehistoric, human-size sea scorpion fossils, Sept. 1 LiveScience.com