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Perucetus size + Mammut pacificus + Hadrocodium skull + Dearc osteology + Clavusodens + Apolithabatis + more free pdfs

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I hope all are well.

Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:

 

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Free book:

Chris Manias (Editor) (2025)

Palaeontology in Public

Popular science, lost creatures and deep time

UCL Press

University College London

Gower Street

London WC1E 6BT

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800085824

https://uclpress.co.uk/book/palaeontology-in-public/

 

Free pdf:

https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10203478/1/Palaeontology-in-Public.pdf

 

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Sabrina C. Curran, Virgil Drăgușin, Briana Pobiner, Michael Pante, John Hellstrom, Jon Woodhead, Roman Croitor, Adrian Doboș, Samantha E. Gogol, Vasile Ersek, Trevor L. Keevil, Alexandru Petculescu, Aurelian Popescu, Chris Robinson, Lars Werdelin & Claire E. Terhune (2025)

Hominin presence in Eurasia by at least 1.95 million years ago

Nature Communications 16: 836

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56154-9

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-56154-9

 

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Maria Rita Palombo and Adolfo Panarello (2025)

What Was the “Devil’s” Body Size? Reflections on the Body Mass and Stature of the Foresta Hominin Trackmakers (Roccamonfina Volcano, Italy)

Quaternary 8(1): 5

doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/quat8010005

https://www.mdpi.com/2571-550X/8/1/5

 

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James Clark & Gonzalo J. Linares-Matás (2025)

Setbacks in the use of a handaxe: lithic investment and seasonality in the Early Acheulean

Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 17: 43

doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-024-02133-y

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-024-02133-y

 

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Amy Manson & Nathan Jeffery (2025)

Computational simulation of cranial soft tissue expansion on the cranium during early postnatal growth in humans

Journal of Anatomy (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.14211

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.14211

 

Free pdf:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joa.14211

 

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Eucharist Kun, Mashaal Sohail & Vagheesh M. Narasimhan (2025)

The trait-specific timing of accelerated genomic change in the human lineage

Cell Genomics 5(1): 100740

doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xgen.2024.100740

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666979X24003690

 

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Jian Zeng (2025)

Tracing human trait evolution through integrative genomics and temporal annotations

Cell Genomics 100767

doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xgen.2025.100767

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666979X25000230

 

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Davide Ponzi, Stefano Parmigiani, Silvia Paterlini, Mariateresa Bellantoni & Paola Palanza (2025)

The relevance of the evolutionary approach for understanding health and disease of the human body and mind

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 169: 106009

doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106009

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763425000090

 

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Holly E. Anderson, Adam Lis, Ingrid Lundeen, Mary T. Silcox and Sergi López-Torres (2025)

Sensory Reconstruction of the Fossil Lorisid Mioeuoticus: Systematic and Evolutionary Implications

Animals 15(3): 345

doi:  https://doi.org/10.3390/ani15030345

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/15/3/345

 

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Carmen Nacarino-Meneses, Juan Marcos Jannello & Anusuya Chinsamy (2025)

Life history data derived from the dental histological analysis of Giraffa camelopardalis: Implications for the palaeohistology of extinct giraffids

Journal of Anatomy (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.14191

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.14191

 

Free pdf:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joa.14191

 

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Gregory S. Paul and Asier Larramendi (2025)

Further trimming down the marine heavyweights: Perucetus colossus did not come close to, much less exceed, the tonnage of blue whales, and the latter are not ultra-sized either.

Palaeontologia Electronica 28(1): a6

doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/1435

https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025/5431-trimming-down-perucetus

 

Free pdf:

https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/pdfs/1435.pdf

 

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Alton C. Dooley Jr, Chris Widga, Brittney E. Stoneburg, Christopher Jass, Victor M. Bravo-Cuevas, Andrew Boehm, Eric Scott, Andrew T. McDonald & Mark Volmut (2025)

Re-evaluation of mastodon material from Oregon and Washington, USA, Alberta, Canada, and Hidalgo and Jalisco, Mexico.

PeerJ 13: e18848

doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18848

https://peerj.com/articles/18848/

 

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Pierre Linchamps, Emmanuelle Stoetzel, Laurie Amberny, Christine Steininger, Ronald J. Clarke, Matthew V. Caruana, Kathleen Kuman, Travis Rayne Pickering

New modern and Pleistocene fossil micromammal assemblages from Swartkrans, South Africa: Paleobiodiversity, taphonomic, and environmental context

Journal of Human Evolution 200: 103636

doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2024.103636

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248424001441

 

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Gohta Kinoshita, Kyoko Suda, Daisuke Aoki, Ohnishi Naoki, Takamichi Jogahara, Jun J. Sato, Fumio Yamada & Hitoshi Suzuki (2025)

Island Population Dynamics Since the Late Miocene: Comparative Phylogeography of Mammalian Species in Three Genera (Pentalagus, Diplothrix, and Tokudaia) Endemic to the Central Ryukyu Islands

Mammal Study, 50(2): (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.3106/ms2024-0045

https://bioone.org/journals/mammal-study/volume-50/issue-2/ms2024-0045/Island-Population-Dynamics-Since-the-Late-Miocene--Comparative-Phylogeography/10.3106/ms2024-0045.full

 

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Molly Tumelty & Stephan Lautenschlager (2025)

Is cranial anatomy indicative of fossoriality? A case study of the mammaliaform Hadrocodium wui

The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25630

https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.25630

 

Free pdf:

https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.25630

 

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Leonardo Kerber, Rodrigo T. Müller, Daniel de Simão-Oliveira, Flávio A. Pretto, Agustín G. Martinelli, Iasmim M. Michelotti, Julien Benoit, Pedro H. Fonseca, Romain David, Vincent Fernandez, Kenneth D. Angielczyk & Ricardo Araújo (2025)

Synchrotron X-ray micro-computed tomography enhances our knowledge of the skull anatomy of a Late Triassic ecteniniid cynodont with hypercanines

The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25616

https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.25616

 

Free pdf:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/387964224_Synchrotron_X-ray_micro-computed_tomography_enhances_our_knowledge_of_the_skull_anatomy_of_a_Late_Triassic_ecteniniid_cynodont_with_hypercanines

 

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Sean Tomlinson, Mark V. Lomolino, Jamie R. Wood, Atholl Anderson, George L.W. Perry, Janet M. Wilmshurst, Jeremy J. Austin & Damien A. Fordham (2025)

Was extinction of New Zealand's avian megafauna an unavoidable consequence of human arrival?

Science of The Total Environment 964: 178471

doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.178471

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969725001056

 

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Aubrey R. Keirnan, Felipe Cunha, Sara Citron, Gavin Prideaux, Andrew N. Iwaniuk and Vera Weisbecker (2025)

Avian telencephalon and cerebellum volumes can be accurately estimated from digital brain endocasts

Biology Letters 21(1): 20240596

doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0596

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0596

 

Free pdf:

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0596

 

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Daniel J. Field, M. Grace Burton, Juan Benito, Olivia Plateau and Guillermo Navalón (2025)

Whence the birds: 200 years of dinosaurs, avian antecedents

Biology Letters 21(1): 20240500

doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0500

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0500

 

Free pdf:

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0500

 

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Jorge O. Calvo, Juan D. Porfiri, Alexis M. Aranciaga Rolando, Fernando E. Novas, Domenica D. Dos Santos, Derek E. Wessel & Matthew C. Lamanna (2025)

Morphological and Phylogenetic Significance of the First Adult Humerus of the Patagonian Cretaceous Theropod Megaraptor namunhuaiquii Novas, 1998

Annals of Carnegie Museum 90(3): 161-181

doi: https://doi.org/10.2992/007.090.0301

https://bioone.org/journals/annals-of-carnegie-museum/volume-90/issue-3/007.090.0301/Morphological-and-Phylogenetic-Significance-of-the-First-Adult-Humerus-of/10.2992/007.090.0301.short

 

Free pdf:

 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/388140420_Morphological_and_Phylogenetic_Significance_of_the_First_Adult_Humerus_of_the_Patagonian_Cretaceous_Theropod_Megaraptor_namunhuaiquii_Novas_1998

 

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Donghao Wang, Lida Xing, Jordan C. Mallon, Tetsuto Miyashita, Zaoqun Liang, Xianqiu Zhang, Zheng Ren, Zhicong Liang & Minyi Xian (2025)

First occurrence of the duck-billed dinosaur tribe Lambeosaurini (Hadrosauridae: Lambeosaurinae) in South China

Historical Biology (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2025.2454652

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2025.2454652

 

Free pdf:

 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/388362816_Historical_Biology_An_International_Journal_of_Paleobiology_ISSN_Print_First_occurrence_of_the_duck-billed_dinosaur_tribe_Lambeosaurini_Hadrosauridae_Lambeosaurinae_in_South_China_First_occurrence_of_

 

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Filippo Bertozzo, Niu Kecheng, Nathan Vallée Gillette & Pascal Godefroit (2025)

Anatomical description and digital reconstruction of the skull of Jeholosaurus shangyuanensis (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) from China.

PLoS ONE 20(1): e0312519

doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0312519

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0312519

 

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Jack R. Milligan, Emily L. Bamforth, M. Gabriela Mángano & Luis A. Buatois (2025)

Taphonomic history of a dinosaur skeleton from the upper Cretaceous Frenchman Formation, Canada: insights from ancient rhizoetchings and invertebrate bioerosion trace fossils

Ichnos (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10420940.2025.2449656

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10420940.2025.2449656

 

Free pdf:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/388212666_Taphonomic_history_of_a_dinosaur_skeleton_from_the_upper_Cretaceous_Frenchman_Formation_Canada_insights_from_ancient_rhizoetchings_and_invertebrate_bioerosion_trace_fossils

 

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Daniel Perea, Mariano Verde, Valeria Mesa, Matías Soto and Felipe Montenegro (2025)

Bioerosion Structures on Dinosaur Bones Probably Made by Multituberculate Mammals and Dermestid Beetles (Guichón Formation, Late Cretaceous of Uruguay)

Fossil Studies 3(1): 2

doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/fossils3010002

https://www.mdpi.com/2813-6284/3/1/2

 

 

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Natalia Jagielska, Michael O’Sullivan, Ian B. Butler, Thomas J. Challands, Gregory F. Funston, Dugald Ross, Amelia Penny & Stephen L. Brusatte (2025)

Osteology and functional morphology of a transitional pterosaur Dearc sgiathanach from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) of Scotland

BMC Ecology and Evolution 25: 9

doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-024-02337-9

https://bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-024-02337-9

 

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Caleb M. Brown, Phil R. Bell, Holly Owers & Brian J. Pickles (2025)

A juvenile pterosaur vertebra with putative crocodilian bite from the Campanian of Alberta, Canada

Journal of Paleontology (advance online publication)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2024.12

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-paleontology/article/juvenile-pterosaur-vertebra-with-putative-crocodilian-bite-from-the-campanian-of-alberta-canada/940BA5F686A0C1CBE936B4CB8586AB62

 

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Emily J. Lessner, Holger Petermann & Tyler R. Lyson (2025)

First record of Borealosuchus sternbergii from the lower Paleocene Denver Formation (lower Danian), Colorado (Denver Basin)

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e2434214

doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2024.2434214

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2024.2434214

 

Free pdf:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/387884691_First_record_of_Borealosuchus_sternbergii_from_the_lower_Paleocene_Denver_Formation_lower_Danian_Colorado_Denver_Basin

 

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Alessandro Vetere, Michele Capasso and Francesco Di Ianni (2025)

Sex Determination in Reptiles: A Review

Animals 15(2): 168

doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/ani15020168

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/15/2/168

 

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Graciela PIÑEIRO, Jorge FERIGOLO, Brodsky Dantas Macedo de FARIAS, Pablo NÚÑEZ DEMARCO & Michel LAURIN (2025)

Caudal autotomy in Mesosaurus tenuidens Gervais, 1865 under scrutiny and a surprising new pattern of vertebral organization in the mesosaur tail.

Geodiversitas 47(2): 17-38

doi: https://doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2025v47a2

https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/geodiversitas/47/2

 

Free pdf:

https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/hd/geodiversitas2025v47a2-pdfa.pdf

 

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Lars Barten & Math van Es (2024)

Resten van jonge mosasauriërs uit het Luiks-Limburgse Krijt en aanwijzingen voor predatie op deze dieren

Remains of juvenile mosasaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of Liège-Limburg and potential clues for predation on these animals

Natuurhistorisch Maandblad 113(12): 335-341 (in Dutch, English summary)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/386198296_Resten_van_jonge_mosasauriers_uit_het_Luiks-Limburgse_Krijt_en_aanwijzingen_voor_predatie_op_deze_dieren

 

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Nikolay Zverkov & Maxim Savvich Arkhangelsky (2024)

Late Cretaceous polycotylid plesiosaurs of European Russia

October 2024 (10): 27-38 (in Russian, English summary)

DOI: 10.7868/S0032874X24100037

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/387448018_Late_Cretaceous_polycotylid_plesiosaurs_of_European_Russia

 

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Nikolay Zverkov & Maxim Savvich Arkhangelsky (2024)

Cretaceous elasmosaurid plesiosaurs of Russia

Priroda 2024(11): 44-56 (in Russian, English summary)

DOI: 10.7868/S0032874X24110045

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/387657187_Cretaceous_elasmosaurid_plesiosaurs_of_Russia

 

 

 

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Clavusodens mcginnisi gen. et sp. nov.

 

John-Paul M. Hodnett, H. Chase Egli, Rickard Toomey, Rickard Olson, Kelli Tolleson, Richard Boldon, Justin S. Tweet & Vincent L. Santucci (2025)

Obruchevodid petalodonts (Chondrichthyes, Petalodontiformes, Obruchevodidae) from the Middle Mississippian (Viséan) Joppa Member of the Ste. Genevieve Formation at Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky U.S.A.

Journal of Paleontology (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2024.40

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-paleontology/article/abs/obruchevodid-petalodonts-chondrichthyes-petalodontiformes-obruchevodidae-from-the-middle-mississippian-visean-joppa-member-of-the-ste-genevieve-formation-at-mammoth-cave-national-park-kentucky-usa/00998443EC0180D03C4983CF0888345E

 

Free pdf:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/388352670_Obruchevodid_petalodonts_Chondrichthyes_Petalodontiformes_Obruchevodidae_from_the_Middle_Mississippian_Visean_Joppa_Member_of_the_Ste_Genevieve_Formation_at_Mammoth_Cave_National_Park_Kentucky_USA

 

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Apolithabatis seioma gen. et sp. nov.

 

Julia Türtscher, Patrick L. Jambura, Frederik Spindler & Jürgen Kriwet (20250

Insights into stem Batomorphii: A new holomorphic ray (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) from the upper Jurassic of Germany.

PLoS ONE 20(1): e0310174

doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0310174

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0310174 

 

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James V. Andrews, Ethan Shirley & Rodrigo Tinoco Figueroa (2025)

Vertebrates of the Blue Ridge Esker (Mississippian Marshall Sandstone) of Michigan

Contributions of the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 36(3): 43-58

doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.7302/25119

https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/196283

 

Free pdf:

https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/196283/ContributionsVol36No3_High%20res.pdf

 

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Emmanuelle STOETZEL, Loïc LEBRETON, Céline PALLIER, Laurent BRUXELLES, François BON, Mathieu LEJAY, Lars ANDERSON, Hélène MARTIN & Marc JARRY (2025)

The small vertebrate assemblages from the Aurignacian deposits of the Mas d’Azil cave (Ariège, France): new data for the understanding of the MIS3 environmental changes in the Pyrenees.

Comptes Rendus Palevol 24(1): 1-18

doi: https://doi.org/10.5852/cr-palevol2025v24a1

https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/comptes-rendus-palevol/24/1

 

Free pdf:

https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/hd/comptes-rendus-palevol2025v24a1-pdfa.pdf

 

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Maurice Tucker (2024)

Underground life in the Triassic desert: Burrows in the Otter (Sherwood) Sandstone (Anisian), Devon, SW England

Journal of the Bath Geological Society 42: 46-54

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/387863187_Underground_life_in_the_Triassic_desert_Burrows_in_the_Otter_Sherwood_Sandstone_Anisian_Devon_SW_England

 

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Eduardo Mayoral, Antonio Rodríguez Ramírez, Jérémy Duveau, Ricardo DíazDelgado, Juan Antonio Morales, Eloísa Bernáldez Sánchez, Esteban García-Viñas, Ana Santos, Mili Jiménez Melero, Milagros Alzaga & Ignacio Díaz-Martínez (2025)

Early Pleistocene vertebrate tracks impressed on Oligocene beds from the southernmost Iberian Peninsula: Palaeogeographic implications

Journal of Palaeogeography (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jop.2025.01.004

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095383625000264

 

 

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Joshua P. Newton, Morten E. Allentoft, Philip W. Bateman, Mieke van der Heyde & Paul Nevill (2025)

Targeting Terrestrial Vertebrates With eDNA: Trends, Perspectives, and Considerations for Sampling

Environmental DNA 7(1): e70056

doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/edn3.70056

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/edn3.70056

 

Free pdf:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/edn3.70056

 

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Emily G. Mitchell and Stephen Pates (2025)

From organisms to biodiversity: the ecology of the Ediacaran/Cambrian transition

Paleobiology (advance online publication)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2024.21

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/paleobiology/article/from-organisms-to-biodiversity-the-ecology-of-the-ediacarancambrian-transition/764C336DCA20CC67ACE38A687FCFE92F

 

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David Jablonski & Stewart M. Edie (2025)

Mass extinctions and their rebounds: a macroevolutionary framework

Paleobiology (advance online publication)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2024.13

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/paleobiology/article/mass-extinctions-and-their-rebounds-a-macroevolutionary-framework/0B32B9E301E079BCDB820B31D8DE0BDB

 

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Xue-Ting Wang, Zuoling Chen, Linlin Cui & Xu Wang (2025)

Spatiotemporal evolution of wildfire activity during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in China

China Earth Sciences 68(2): 509–522

doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-024-1472-5

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11430-024-1472-5

 

Free pdf:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/387930538_Spatiotemporal_evolution_of_wildfire_activity_during_the_Paleocene-Eocene_Thermal_Maximum_in_China

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