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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/
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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