I hope all are well.
Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:
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Owen Alexander Higgins, Alessandra Modi, Costanza Cannariato, Maria Angela Diroma, Federico Lugli, Stefano Ricci, Valentina Zaro, Stefania Vai, Antonino Vazzana, Matteo Romandini, He Yu, Francesco Boschin, Luigi Magnone, Matteo Rossini, Giovanni Di Domenico, Fabio Baruffaldi, Gregorio Oxilia, Eugenio Bortolini, Elena Dellù, Adriana Moroni, Annamaria Ronchitelli, Sahra Talamo, Wolfgang Müller, Mauro Calattini, Alessia Nava, Cosimo Posth, Martina Lari, Luca Bondioli, Stefano Benazzi & David Caramelli (2024)
Life history and ancestry of the late Upper Palaeolithic infant from Grotta delle Mura, Italy
Nature Communications 15: 8248
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51150-x
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-51150-x
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M.V. Shunkov & M.B. Kozlikin (2024)
Paleolithic inhabitants of Denisova Cave
Vestnik Arheologii, Antropologii i Etnografii 3(66): 116-126 (in Russian)
doi: https://doi.org/10.20874/2071-0437-2024-66-3-10
http://ipdn.ru/_private/a66/116-126.pdf
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Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Frédérik Saltré, Stefani A. Crabtree, Christian Reepmeyer and Theodora Moutsiou (2024)
Small populations of Palaeolithic humans in Cyprus hunted endemic megafauna to extinction
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 291(2031): 20240967
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.0967
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2024.0967
Free pdf:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rspb.2024.0967
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Felix Riede & Marlize Lombard (2024)
Hunting with poisoned arrows during the Terminal Pleistocene in Northern Europe? A tip cross-sectional area assessment and list of potential arrow poison ingredients
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 59: 104757
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104757
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X24003857
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Igor Djakovic, Morgan Roussel & Marie Soressi (2024)
Stone Tools in Shifting Sands: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives on the Châtelperronian Stone Tool Industry
Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology 7: 29
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41982-024-00193-z
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41982-024-00193-z
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Frank E. Marino (2024)
Evolution of the thirst mechanism in Homo: The need and limitations of thirst and hydration
Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology 298: 111745
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpa.2024.111745
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1095643324001727
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Geanina Adriana Butiseaca, Iuliana Vasiliev, Marcel van der Meer, Ines J.E. Bludau, Panagiotis Karkanas, Vangelis Tourloukis, Annett Junginger, Andreas Mulch, Eleni Panagopoulou, Katerina Harvati (2024)
The expression of the MIS 12 glacial stage in Southeastern Europe and its impact over the Middle Pleistocene hominins in Megalopolis Basin (Greece)
Global and Planetary Change 242: 104585
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104585
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921818124002327
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Nicole D. S. Grunstra, Fabian Hollinetz, Guillermo Bravo Morante, Frank E. Zachos, Cathrin Pfaff, Viola Winkler, Philipp Mitteroecker & Anne Le Maître (2024)
Convergent evolution in Afrotheria and non-afrotherians demonstrates high evolvability of the mammalian inner ear
Nature Communications 15: 7869
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-52180-1
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-52180-1
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Hans P Püschel, Sarah L Shelley, Thomas E Williamson, Fernando A Perini, John R Wible & Stephen L Brusatte (2024)
A new dentition-based phylogeny of Litopterna (Mammalia: Placentalia) and ‘archaic’ South American ungulates
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 202(1): zlae095
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae095
https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/202/1/zlae095/7750676
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Dimidiomeryx gen. nov. (for Amphimoschus xishuiensis)
Israel M. Sánchez, Juan L. Cantalapiedra, Daniel DeMiguel, Beatriz Azanza, Flavia Strani & Jorge Morales (2024)
The postcranial skeleton of Amphimoschus Bourgeois, 1873 (Cetartiodactyla, Ruminantia, Pecora) sheds light on its phylogeny and the evolution of the clade Cervoidea
Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 22: 12386020
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2024.2386020
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2024.2386020
Free pdf:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/14772019.2024.2386020
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Panagiotis Kampouridis, Majid Mirzaie Ataabadi, Josephina Hartung & Felix J. Augustin (2024)
The easternmost occurrence of the Late Miocene schizotheriine chalicothere Ancylotherium pentelicum at the classical locality of Maragheh (Iran)
Journal of Mammalian Evolution 31: 36
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-024-09730-7
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10914-024-09730-7
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Yulin Sun, Eline D. Lorenzen & Michael V. Westbury (2024)
Late Pleistocene polar bear genomes reveal the timing of allele fixation in key genes associated with Arctic adaptation
BMC Genomics 25: 826
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-024-10617-3
https://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12864-024-10617-3
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M. P. Alfaro-Ibáñez, E. Angel-Beamonte, A. C. Domínguez-García & G. Cuenca-Bescós (2024)
Informatic application to characterise and identify small mammal species: Arvicolinae (Cricetidae, Rodentia, Mammalia)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70064
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.70064
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ece3.70064
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Anna M Kearns, Michael G Campana, Beth Slikas, Lainie Berry, Takema Saitoh, Gary R Graves, Alice Cibois & Robert C Fleischer (2024)
Untangling the colonization history of the Australo-Pacific reed warblers, one of the world’s great island radiations
Evolution, qpae136
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpae136
https://academic.oup.com/evolut/advance-article/doi/10.1093/evolut/qpae136/7759539
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Santiago Claramunt, Edward L. Braun, Joel Cracraft, Jon Fjeldså, Simon Y. W. Ho, Peter Houde, Jacqueline M. T. Nguyen, and Josefin Stiller (2024)
Calibrating the genomic clock of modern birds using fossils
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121(39): e2405887121
doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.240588712
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2405887121
Free pdf:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10.1073/pnas.2405887121
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Eriko Tsuboi, Satomi F. Ono, Ingrid Rosenburg Cordeiro, Reiko Yu, Toru Kawanishi, Makoto Koizumi, Shuji Shigenobu, Guojun Sheng, Masataka Okabe & Mikiko Tanaka (2024)
Immobilization secondary to cell death of muscle precursors with a dual transcriptional signature contributes to the emu wing skeletal pattern
Nature Communications 15: 8153
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-52203-x
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-52203-x
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Carla J. du Toit, Alexander L. Bond, Susan J. Cunningham, Daniel J. Field and Steven J. Portugal (2024)
Tactile bill-tip organs in seabirds suggest conservation of a deep avian symplesiomorphy
Biology Letters 20(9): 20240259
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0259
https: //royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0259
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https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0259
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Josué García-Cobeña, Francisco J. Verdú and Alberto Cobos (2024)
Systematic of a Massively Constructed Specimen of Iguanodon galvensis (Ornithopoda, Iguanodontidae) from the Early Barremian (Early Cretaceous) of Eastern Spain
Diversity 16(9): 586
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/d16090586
https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/16/9/586
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Ismar de Souza Carvalho, Jaime Joaquim Dias, Daniel Souza da Silva, Leonardo Borghi, José Artur Ferreira Gomes de Andrade, Maria Somália Sales Viana, Mário Ferreira Lima Filho, Renata da Silva Schmitt, Aristóteles de Moraes Rios Netto, Silvério Domingues Figueiredo, and Giuseppe Leonardi (2024)
A new dinosaur tracksite from the Araripe Basin (Brazil) and the putative early Paleozoic age for the Mauriti Formation
In: Louis H.Taylor, Robert G. Raynolds, and Spencer G. Lucas, eds., 2024, Vertebrate Paleoichnology: A Tribute to Martin Lockley. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 95: 97-102
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Anthony J. Martin, Melissa Lowery, Michael Hall, Thomas H. Rich, Doris E. Seegets-Villiers, Peter Swinkels, John Broomfield & Patricia Vickers-Rich (2024)
Polar dinosaur tracks of the Wonthaggi Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Victoria, Australia and their palaeontological significance
Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2024.2392498
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03115518.2024.2392498
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Denis A. Ponce, Ignacio A. Cerda, and Julia B. Desojo (2024)
First record of palaeopathologies in appendicular bones of the Triassic pseudosuchians Erpetosuchidae and Aetosauria based on microstructural approaches
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 69(3): 395-402
doi:10.4202/app.01141.2024
https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app011412024.html
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https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app69/app011412024.pdf
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Li-Ang Gu, Andrzej S. Wolniewicz & Jun Liu (2024)
New information on the dentition of Chaohusaurus zhangjiawanensis (Reptilia, Ichthyosauriformes) from the Early Triassic of Yuan’an, Hubei Province, China
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-024-00331-8
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13358-024-00331-8
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Platypterygius elsuntuoso sp. nov.
María Eurídice Páramo Fonseca, Cristian David Benavides Cabra & Renzo Garavito Camacho (2024)
A new species of Platypterygius (Ophthalmosauridae) from the lower Barremian of Colombia and assessment of the species composition of the genus
Una nueva especie de Platypterygius (Ophthalmosauridae) del Barremiano inferior de Colombia y evaluación de la composición específica del género
Earth Sciences Research Journal 28(2): 103–126
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15446/esrj.v28n2.112332
https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/esrj/article/view/112332
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https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/esrj/article/view/112332/93137
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Trevor H. Rempert, Brennan P. Martens, Alexander P. M. Vinkeles Melchers & Ashley N. Rempert (2024)
New remains of the mosasaur Globidens alabamaensis from the North Sulphur River of Texas
The Journal of Paleontological Sciences: JPS.C.24.0001
https://zenodo.org/records/13324299
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Gabriel S. Ferreira, Guilherme Hermanson, Christina Kyriakouli, Dawid Dróżdż & Tomasz Szczygielski (2024)
Shell biomechanics suggests an aquatic palaeoecology at the dawn of turtle evolution
Scientific Reports 14: 21822
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-72540-7
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-72540-7
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Ingmar Werneburg & Mario Bronzati (2024)
Trifold origin of the reptilian ear ossicle and its relation to the evolutionary modification of the temporal skull region
Journal of Anatomy (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.14105
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.14105
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joa.14105
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Samuel L. A. Cooper, Erin E. Maxwell & David M. Martill (2024)
An unusually large ‘suspension-feeding’ fish from the Kimmeridge Clay Formation of Dorset: the first true record of Asthenocormus (Pachycormiformes: Asthenocorminae) in the UK
PalZ (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-024-00700-1
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12542-024-00700-1
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Héctor Botella, Richard A. Fariña & Francisco Huera-Huarte (2024)
Delta wing design in earliest nektonic vertebrates
Communications Biology 7: 1153
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06837-8
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-024-06837-8
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“Groenlandaspis howittensis” sp. nov.
Austin N. Fitzpatrick, Alice M. Clement & John A. Long (2024)
Unique dental arrangement in a new species of Groenlandaspis (Placodermi, Arthrodire) from the Middle Devonian of Mount Howitt, Victoria, Australia
bioRxiv 2024.09.11.612576 (preprint)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.11.612576
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.11.612576v1
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Georgios L. Georgalis, Andrea Villa, Martin Ivanov & Massimo Delfino (2024)
New diverse amphibian and reptile assemblages from the late Neogene of northern Greece provide novel insights into the emergence of extant herpetofaunas of the southern Balkans
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 143: 34
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-024-00332-7
https://sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s13358-024-00332-7
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Pedro Piñero, Jordi Agustí, Hugues-Alexandre Blain, David M. Alba, Marc Furió, Chiara Angelone, Adriana Linares-Martín, Rafael Marquina-Blasco, Casto Laborda-López, Alvaro Arasa-Tuliesa & Isaac Casanovas-Vilar (2024)
The vertebrate fauna of the lower Pliocene continental deposits in the Ebro Delta (Baix Ebre Basin, NE Spain)
Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 130(3): 557-601.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54103/2039-4942/22792
https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/22792
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https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/22792/21964
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Roger Adam Close & Bouwe Rutger Reijenga (2024)
Tetrapod species-area relationships across the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction
bioRxiv 2024.09.13.612886 (preprint)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.13.612886
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.13.612886v1
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Nidhi U. Patel, Sandy M.S. McLachlan, Jennifer M. Galloway, David R. Greenwood & Vera Pospelova (2024)
A maritime location reduced palynofloral turnover and extirpation across the end Cretaceous boundary interval on the west coast of Canada
Cretaceous Research 106011
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2024.106011
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667124001848
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Alexandra Käßner, Marion Tichomirowa, Ronny Rößler & Ines Görz (2024)
Zircon U–Pb CA–ID–TIMS constraints on the chronology of the Late Carboniferous–early Permian continental Döhlen Basin and its correlation with the Thuringian Forest Basin (Central and Eastern Germany)
International Journal of Earth Sciences (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-024-02464-0
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00531-024-02464-0
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Vivi Vajda & Benjamin P. Kear (2024)
An earliest Triassic riparian ecosystem from the Bulgo Sandstone (Sydney Basin), Australia: palynofloral evidence of a high-latitude terrestrial vertebrate habitat after the end-Permian mass extinction
Alcheringa (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2024.2392489
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03115518.2024.2392489
Free pdf:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/03115518.2024.2392489
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Javier Blasco, Ilaria Tabone, Daniel Moreno-Parada, Alexander Robinson, Jorge Alvarez-Solas, Frank Pattyn & Marisa Montoya (2024)
Antarctic tipping points triggered by the mid-Pliocene warm climate.
Climate of the Past 20: 1919–1938
doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-1919-2024
https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/20/1919/2024/
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James D. Annan, Julia C. Hargreaves, Thorsten Mauritsen, Erin McClymont, and Sze Ling Ho (2024)
Can we reliably reconstruct the mid-Pliocene Warm Period with sparse data and uncertain models?
Climate of the Past 20: 1989–1999
doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-1989-2024
https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/20/1989/2024/
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Julien Benoit (2024)
A possible later stone age painting of a dicynodont (Synapsida) from the South African Karoo.
PLoS ONE 19(9): e0309908
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0309908
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0309908