Cuvieronius skull + pyrothere diets + Foskeia + Eubrontes + Dynamosuchus growth + Xenodontolacerta + more free pdfs
Ben Creisler
I hope people are well.
Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:
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Lucía Villaescusa, Enrique Baquedano, David M. Martín-Perea, Belén Márquez, M. Ángeles Galindo-Pellicena, Lucía Cobo-Sánchez, Ana Isabel Ortega, Rosa Huguet, César Laplana, M. Cruz Ortega, Sandra Gómez-Soler, Abel Moclán, Nuria García, Diego J. Álvarez-Lao, Rebeca García-González, Laura Rodríguez, Alfredo Pérez-González & Juan Luis Arsuaga (2026)
Towards a formation model of the Neanderthal symbolic accumulation of herbivore crania: Spatial patterns shaped by rockfall dynamics in Level 3 of Des-Cubierta Cave (Lozoya valley, Madrid, Spain)
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 18(1): 16
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-025-02382-5
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-025-02382-5
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Richard L. Rosencrance, Geoffrey M. Smith, Katelyn N. McDonough, Christopher S. Jazwa, Mariya Antonosyan, Elizabeth A. Kallenbach, Thomas J. Connolly, Brendan J. Culleton, Kathryn Puseman, Megan McGuinness, Dennis L. Jenkins, Daniel O. Stueber, Pam E. Endzweig, and Patrick Roberts (2026)
Complex perishable technologies from the North American Great Basin reveal specialized Late Pleistocene adaptations
Science Advances 12(6):eaec2916
doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aec2916
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aec2916
Free pdf:
https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.aec2916
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Julia Aramendi & Edwin de Jager (2026)
Modern anatomy meets ancient bones: How virtual anatomy is transforming palaeoanthropological research
Journal of Anatomy (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.70119
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.70119
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joa.70119
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Joshua Cuddihy, Yuemin Li, Isobel Fisher, Zoltan Takats, Dominic Friston, Declan Collins, Marcela Vizcaychipi, Matteo Fumagalli, Istvan Nagy & Armand Leroi (2026)
Burn Selection: How Fire Injury Shaped Human Evolution
BioEssays 48(2): e70109
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/bies.70109
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.70109
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/bies.70109
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Sarah Hannan, Sofia C. Samper Carro & Sue O'Connor (2026)
Biometric Analysis of Giant and Large Murid Remains From Matja Kuru 2, Timor‐Leste
Archaeometry (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.70106
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/arcm.70106
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/arcm.70106
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Peter Houde, Spencer G. Lucas, Matthew Heizler, Julia Ricci, William J. Boecklen & Brian Hampton (2026)
First Known Cranium of Cuvieronius (Proboscidea: Gomphotheriidae) from North America
Diversity 18(2): 92
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/d18020092
https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/18/2/92
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Ann-Kathrin Melody Kofranek, Robert Boessenecker, Simon Darroch, Irina Ruf & Rachel Racicot (2026)
First porpoise fossils (Cetacea: Phocoenidae) from the western North Atlantic, South Carolina
Journal of Paleontology (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2025.10199
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Roberta Martino, Florent Rivals, Carolina Di Patti & Luca Pandolfi (2025)
Reconstructing the feeding behavior of the dwarf Sicilian hippopotamus Hippopotamus pentlandi and the implications for Hippopotamidae paleodiets
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 14: 1761431
doi: 10.3389/fevo.2026.1761431
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/ecology-and-evolution/articles/10.3389/fevo.2026.1761431
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Manon Le Neün, Elise Dufour, Dimitri Neaux, S. Bréhard, Denis Fiorillo, Jane C. Wheeler, Nicolas Goepfert & Thomas Cucchi (2026)
New insights into the domestication process of south American camelids at Telarmachay (Peru) from 9,000 to 4,500 years before present (BP)
Quaternary Science Reviews 376: 109819
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2026.109819
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379126000284
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Dawid A. Iurino, Alessio Iannucci, Angharad K. Jones, Filippo Spadola, Gabriella Mangano, Nicola Iannelli, Danielle C. Schreve, Raffaele Sardella & Laura Bonfiglio (2026)
Spotted hyaena spotted on island: the Upper Pleistocene hyaenas from San Teodoro Cave (Sicily, Italy) provide new insights on the palaeobiology, palaeoecology, and sociality of Crocuta
Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia (Research in Paleontology and Stratigraphy) 132(1): 101-130
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54103/2039-4942/29453
https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/29453
Free pdf:
https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/29453/25597
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Oscar E. Wilson, Javier N. Gelfo, Tábata Zanesco, Lílian Paglarelli Bergqvist & Juha Saarinen (2025) [2026]
Feeding the ‘fire beasts’: mesowear angles in bilophodont South American herbivores
Journal of Mammalian Evolution 32:50
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-026-09801-x
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10914-026-09801-x
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Isaac Casanovas-Vilar, Jan van Dam, Chiara Angelone, Marc Furió, Israel García-Paredes, Lars W. van den Hoek Ostende & David M. Alba (2025) [2026]
Micromammal-based paleoprecipitation estimates for the late Middle and early Late Miocene record of the Vallès-Penedès Basin (Catalonia): Implications for primate habitats
Journal of Mammalian Evolution 32:48
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-025-09788-x
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10914-025-09788-x
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Davis Laundon, Neil J. Gostling, Ian G. Reddin, Bram G. Sengers, Pascale Chavatte-Palmer & Rohan M. Lewis (2026)
Placental crises: disruptive selection and maternal under-investment as the foundations of mammalian placental evolution and dysfunction
Biological Reviews (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/brv.70139
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/brv.70139
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/brv.70139
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Adrian Scheidt, Alina C. E. Renk & John A. Nyakatura (2026)
Scaling of internal joint distance in the elbow of small- to medium-sized mammals: Implications for range of motion analyses
Journal of Anatomy (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.70116
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.70116
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joa.70116
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George Watts, Suresh Singh, Emily J. Rayfield & Christine M. Janis (2026)
Hadronomas and the case of the missing fifth digit: a study of fifth digit proportions in extant and extinct kangaroos
Alcheringa (advance online publication)
https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2025.2607124
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03115518.2025.2607124
Free pdf:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/03115518.2025.2607124
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Antoine Louchart, Albrecht Manegold & Marco Pavia (2026)
The earliest record for honeyguides (Aves: Indicatoridae), from the early Pliocene of South Africa
Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 132(1): 87-99
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54103/2039-4942/28693
https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/28693
Free pdf:
https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/28693/25563
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Hollie Bean, Daniel Field & Maria E. McNamara (2026)
Quantitative characterization of melanin-based feather colour using reflectance spectrophotometry
Royal Society Open Science 13(1): 251668 .
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.251668
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Stephanie Y. Chia, Anshuman Swain, Nathaniel Josephs, Lizhen Lin & William F. Fagan (2026)
Birds That Don't Exist: Niche Pre-Emption as a Constraint on Morphological Evolution in the Passeroidea
Ecology Letters 29(2): e70320
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70320
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.70320
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ele.70320
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Free to read only online:
Foskeia pelendonum gen. et sp. nov.
Rhabdodontia nov.
Paul-Emile Dieudonné, Marcos Gabriel Becerra, Tábata Zanesco, Thierry Tortosa, Penélope Cruzado-Caballero, Koen Stein & Fidel Torcida Fernández-Baldor (2026)
Foskeia pelendonum, a new rhabdodontomorph from the Lower Cretaceous of Salas de los Infantes (Burgos Province, Spain), and a new phylogeny of ornithischian dinosaurs
Papers in Palaeontology 12(1): e70057
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.70057
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.70057
Free to read:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.70057
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Facundo Javier Riguetti, Sebastián Apesteguía, Juan Ignacio Canale & Pablo Ariel Gallina (2026)
New thyreophoran remains with stegosaurian affinities from the Lower Cretaceous of Argentina
Nuevos restos fósiles con afinidades estegosaurianas del Cretácico Inferior de Argentina
Publicación Electrónica de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina 26(1): 56-79
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5710/PEAPA.25.11.2025.551
https://peapaleontologica.org.ar/index.php/peapa/article/view/551
Free pdf:
https://peapaleontologica.org.ar/index.php/peapa/article/view/551/936
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Seishiro Tada, Takanobu Tsuihiji, Hiroki Ishikawa, Noriyuki Wakimizu, Soichiro Kawabe & Kodai Sakane (2026)
Nasal soft-tissue anatomy of Triceratops and other horned dinosaurs
The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70150
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70150
Free pdf:
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.70150
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Megan L. Jacobs (2026)
The historiography of dinosaur footprints of the Lower Cretaceous Wealden Group on the Isle of Wight, UK
Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 101164
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2026.101164
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016787826000040
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Martin G. Lockley, James O. Farlow, Andrew R.C. Milner, and Jack Davidson (2026)
Eubrontes out west (and beyond)—distribution, morphology, ichnotaxonomy, and associated ichnofauna of footprints of large, Early Jurassic theropod trackmakers.
Geology of the Intermountain West 13: 1–51
doi: https://doi.org/10.31711/giw.v13.pp1-51
https://giw.utahgeology.org/giw/index.php/GIW/issue/view/17
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Qing Yang, Lida Xing, Jens N. Lallensack, Lin Liu, Qiyan Chen, Anthony Romilio, Qi Qi, Juan Qi, Ming Zhao, Xi Chen, Ya Zhao, Lixin Wei & Yang Wan (2026)
A new sauropod tracksite from the Lower Cretaceous of Ningxia, Northwestern China, with implications for overtrack preservation
Scientific Reports (unedited preprint)
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-37987-w
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-37987-w
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Anthony Romilio & Bruce Runnegar (2026)
Earliest Australian dinosaur: ichnofossils from the Carnian Aspley Formation of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Alcheringa (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2025.2607630
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03115518.2025.2607630
Free pdf:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/03115518.2025.2607630
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Brodsky Dantas Macedo Farias, Rodrigo Temp Müller, Fabiula Prestes de Bem, M. Belén von Baczko, Julia Brenda Desojo & Marina Bento Soares (2026)
Filling a key gap in growth patterns of Pseudosuchia through the osteohistology of Dynamosuchus collisensis (Ornithosuchidae: Archosauria)
Royal Society Open Science 13(2): 252042 .
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.252042
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Edina Prondvai, Krisztián Horváth, Stephen WT Price, Olof Gutowski & Andrew Beale (2026)
United by chewing: Hunter-Schreger band-like pattern and wavy enamel in a fossil crocodile suggest functional convergence with mammals and dinosaurs
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 293(2064): 20251992
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.1992
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Xenodontolacerta fangi gen. et sp. nov.
Juan Jiang, Li-Ping Dong, Xing Xu, Alexander Bi & Susan Evans (2026)
A new polyglyphanodontian lizard from the Upper Cretaceous of southern China implies a complex evolutionary history of the clade
Royal Society Open Science 13(2): 252253 .
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.252253
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Evgeniy Simonov, Polina Chernigova, Artem Lisachov, Kazhmurat Akhmedenov, Oleg Ermakov, Anastasia Klenina, Andrey Bakiev, Roman Nazarov, Sayagul Akhmedenova & Daniel Jablonski (2026)
Diversification in the steppe rat snake Elaphe dione (Pallas, 1773) coincides with the Mid-Pleistocene climatic transition of Eurasia
PeerJ 14: e20351
doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20351
https://peerj.com/articles/20351/
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Zeng Wang, Wei Wu, Fuyuan Shen, Jin-Long Ren, Chaochao Yan, Chen-Yang Tang, Xiuyue Zhang & Jia-Tang Li (2026)
Genomic adaptations for tail-length evolution in arboreal snakes
Molecular Biology and Evolution, msag029
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag029
https://academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-article/doi/10.1093/molbev/msag029/8452738
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Sven Sachs & Daniel Madzia (2026)
The osteology, taxonomy, and phylogenetic affinities of the Early Jurassic plesiosaur Lusonectes sauvagei.
PeerJ 14:e20611
doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20611
https://peerj.com/articles/20611/
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Ane Elise Schrøder, Bent Erik Kramer Lindow & Giorgio Carnevale (2026)
A reappraisal of the lampridiform Palaeocentrotus boggildi Kühne, 1941 from the Eocene Fur Formation, Denmark
Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 75: 33-51
doi: https://doi.org/10.37570/bgsd-2026-75-03
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Iris Feichtinger, Bernhard Beaury, Guillaume Guinot, Mathias Harzhauser, Thomas Nichterl, Kristalina Stoykova & Jürgen Pollerspöck (2026)
Revealing elasmobranch diversity across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary in the Central Tethys (Byala, Bulgaria).
Fossil Record 29(1): 57-70.
https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.29.182659
https://fr.pensoft.net/article/182659/
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XIAN Zu-Min, MO Xiong, GUAN Qi, ZHAO Ying-Tian, XUE Qin-Yuan, LI Qiang, LIU Jun-Ping & ZHU Min (2026)
Early Devonian fish material from Posongchong Formation of Guangnan, Yunnan, China
Vertebrata Palasiatica (advance online publication)
DOI: 10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.260206
https://www.vertpala.ac.cn/EN/10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.260206
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Shahar Dubiner (2026)
Pathogens may have assisted the evolution of endothermy by restricting its reversibility
Journal of Thermal Biology 136: 104385
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2026.104385
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306456526000185
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Giulia Bernardini, Gareth G. Roberts & Mark D. Sutton (2026)
Past and present biodiversity correlates with spatial environmental gradient
Geological Magazine 163: e7
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756825100502
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Ina Heumann (2026)
Taking nature: Collecting and the exercise of colonial power
Science in Context (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269889725100951
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Xin Wang, Weijia Huang, Qiang Fu & Yinggang Lei (2026)
A new Early Permian fruit, Dengfengfructus maxima gen. et sp. nov., supports the pre-Cretaceous origin of angiosperms
BMC Ecology and Evolution 26:17
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-026-02498-9
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12862-026-02498-9
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