Ben Creisler
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Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:
Andrea Amadei, Giulia Lin & Simone Fattorini (2025)
A simple analytical model for Neanderthal disappearance due to genetic dilution by recurrent small-scale immigrations of modern humans
Scientific Reports 15: 38593
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-22376-6
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-22376-6
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José Carrión, Gabriela Amorós, Ariadna Amorós & Ana B. Marín-Arroyo (2025)
Beyond the cold steppes: Neanderthal landscapes and the neglect of flora
Quaternary Science Reviews 371: 109673
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109673
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379125004937
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Javier Davara, Cristo M. Hernández, Daniel Carrizo, Antonio V. Herrera-Herrera, Eneko Iriarte & Carolina Mallol (2025)
Enhanced functional data retrieval from Palaeolithic stone tools by lipid analysis
Journal of Archaeological Science 185: 106427
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2025.106427
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440325002766
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Alejandro Mayor, F. Javier Molina, Oriol Montero-Buch, Josep A. Casabó & Javier Fernández-López de Pablo (2025)
Down by the Seaside: New Data on Lithic Provisioning by Early Upper Palaeolithic Populations in the Central Mediterranean Iberian Coast
Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology 8: 36
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41982-025-00229-y
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41982-025-00229-y
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Adam Lindholm and Roger A. Close(2025)
Persistent body size bias in the fossil record of Cenozoic North American mammals
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 292(2058): 20251780
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.1780
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2025.1780
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Véra Eisenmann, Christina I. Barrón-Ortiz & Marisol Montellano-Ballesteros (2025)
North American Caballines and Amerhippines of the Past 1 Million Years (Part 1)
Quaternary 8(4): 68
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/quat8040068
https://www.mdpi.com/2571-550X/8/4/68
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Dánae Sanz-Pérez, Santiago Hernández Del Pino, Esperanza Cerdeño, Manuel Hernández Fernández & Laura Domingo (2025)
Body Size Regulates Niche Overlap Asymmetry in the Subtropical Andes Rain Shadow: Isotopic Paleoecology of Oligocene South American Ungulates
Integrative Zoology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1749-4877.70017
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1749-4877.70017
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1749-4877.70017
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Spencer G. Lucas & Alvarado Induni Guillermo (2025)
The Pleistocene Coyote from the Río Nacaome, Costa Rica
El coyote del Pleistoceno del río Nacaome, Costa Rica
Revista Geológica de América Central 73: 1-12
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15517/ytzr8902
https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rgeologica/article/download/1706/2312/8502
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https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rgeologica/article/view/1706/2312
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Allowen Evin, Carly Ameen, Colline Brassard, Sophie Dennis, Ekaterina E. Antipina, Vincent Bonhomme, Myriam Boudadi-Maligne, Kate Britton, Francisco Gil Cano, Ruth F. Carden, Julien Claude, Lídia Colominas, Stefan Curth, Sergey Egorovich Fedorov, Joan Frances, Daniela C. Kalthoff, Andrew C. Kitchener, Rick Knecht, Pavel Kosintsev, Anna Linderholm, Robert Losey, Ilia Merts, Viktor Merts, Maria Mostadius, Mark Omura, Vedat Onar, Alan K. Outram, Joris Peters, André Rehazek, Erika Rosengren, Mikhail Sablin, Paul Sciulli, Maria Seguí, Z. Jack Tseng, Emma Usmanova, Victor Varfolomeev, Susan Crockford, Yaroslav Kuzmin, Laurent Frantz, Keith Dobney, and Greger Larson (2025)
The emergence and diversification of dog morphology
Science 390(6774): 741-744
DOI: 10.1126/science.adt0995
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adu2836
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https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/science.adt0995
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Therese Flink, Julia Lagerström, Yonatan Sahle & Lars Werdelin (2025)
When did spotted hyenas become social? Evidence from fossil endocasts
Journal of Mammalian Evolution 32: 39
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-025-09784-1
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10914-025-09784-1
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Emilio Mármol-Sánchez, Bastian Fromm, Nikolay Oskolkov, Zoé Pochon, Marianne Dehasque, Morteza Aslanzadeh, Elif Bozlak, Katherine Brown, Tom van der Valk, Panagiotis Kalogeropoulos, J. Camilo Chacón-Duque, Inna Biryukova, Peter D. Heintzman, Cecilia Furugård, Valeri Plotnikov, Albert Protopopov, Björn Andersson, Erik Ersmark, Kevin J. Peterson, Marc R. Friedländer & Love Dalén (2025)
Ancient RNA expression profiles from the extinct woolly mammoth
Cell (advance online publication)
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2025.10.025
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)01231-0
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https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0092-8674%2825%2901231-0
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Mariya Antonosyan, Roshan Paladugu, Michael Ziegler, Gabriela Prestes Carneiro, Eliane Chim, Andre Menezes Strauss, Diego Mendes, Rafael Lemos, Jorge Domingo Carrillo-Briceño, Laura Pereira Furquim, Stefanie Schirmer, Jana Ilgner, Daniela Volke & Patrick Roberts (2025)
Peptide Mass Fingerprinting of South American Xenarthrans: A New Resource for Zooarcheology and Palaeontology
Journal of Proteome Research (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jproteome.5c00636
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jproteome.5c00636
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https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.jproteome.5c00636
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Kévin Le Verger & Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra (2025)
The evolution and biological role of the neomorphic ossification of the nasal cartilage in Neosclerocalyptini glyptodonts
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e2565478
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2025.2565478
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2025.2565478
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/02724634.2025.2565478
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Isaac A. R. Kerr, Jasmin Hoadley, Gavin J. Prideaux and Aaron B. Camens (2025)
Limb osteology and functional morphology of the extinct kangaroo Dorcopsoides fossilis (Macropodinae, Marsupialia) from Late Miocene central Australia
Royal Society Open Science 12(11): 251591
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.251591
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.251591
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https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rsos.251591
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Michael Buckley, Kieren J. Mitchell, Lee J. Arnold, Elizabeth H. Reed and Rolan Eberhard (2025)
Collagen fingerprinting and sequence analysis provides a molecular phylogeny of extinct Australian megafauna
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 292(2058): 20250856
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.0856
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2025.0856
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https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rspb.2025.0856
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Chen Xi (2025)
Report on the Middle Pleistocene and Early Holocene vertebrate fauna of Maoshan locality, Lipu, Guangxi
Carsologia Sinica 44(4): 876-886 (in Chinese)
DOI: 10.11932/karst20250415
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Markus J. Poschmann (2025)
Made of ashes - an ichnotaxonomic approach to avian trackways from the Late Pleistocene Laacher See Tephra, SW Germany
Ichnos (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10420940.2025.2587383
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10420940.2025.2587383
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/10420940.2025.2587383
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Yang LI, Lifu ZHANG, Shunxing JIANG, Qi WU, Muren QI & Xiaolin WANG (2025)
The fastest-running theropod trackway in the Cretaceous from Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China
SCIENCE CHINA Earth Sciences 68(1): 3495-3505
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-025-1657-7
https://www.sciengine.com/SCES/doi/10.1007/s11430-025-1657-7
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https://www.sciengine.com/doi/pdf/23F84AAA81B3476FB249DC3916EBDC6B
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Jeffrey A. Wilson Mantilla, Paulo Martins, Bandana Samant, and Dhananjay M. Mohabey (2025)
First astragalus of a titanosaur (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the latest Cretaceous of India and the evolution of the sauropod tarsus
Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 38(1): 1–15
doi: https://doi.org/10.7302/27551
https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/items/78a34645-e5d4-4056-adc2-6240845facc3
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Spencer G. Lucas, Jason W. Ricketts and Sebastian G. Dalman (2025)
An ornithopod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of West Texas
In: Lucas et al., 2025, Fossil Record 11. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 101: 291-294
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Ryan T. Tucker, Kira E. Venter, Cristiano Lana, Eric M. Roberts, Tsogtbaatar Chinzorig, Khishigjav Tsogtbaatar & Lindsay E. Zanno (2025)
U-Pb calcite age dating of fossil eggshell as an accurate deep time geochronometer
Communications Earth & Environment 6: 872
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02895-w
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02895-w
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Bakiribu waridza gen. et sp. nov.
R. V. Pêgas, Tito Aureliano, Borja Holgado, William B. S. Almeida, Claude L. A. Santos & Aline M. Ghilardi (2025)
A regurgitalite reveals a new filter-feeding pterosaur from the Santana Group
Scientific Reports 15: 37336
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-22983-3
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-22983-3
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Tito Aureliano, Matheus P. S. Rocha, Francisco P. Lima-Filho & Aline M. Ghilardi (2025)
Histology and fossil diagenesis of a pterosaur tooth from the Crato Formation (Lower Cretaceous of Brazil)
The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70093
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70093
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https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.70093
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Tainrakuasuchus bellator gen. et sp. nov.
Rodrigo Temp Müller, Mauricio Silva Garcia, Lísie Vitória Soares Damke, Fabiula Prestes de Bem, André de Oliveira Fonseca, Mariana Doering, Jeung Hee Schiefelbein &Vitória Zanchett Dalle Laste (2025)
Osteology, taxonomy and phylogenetic affinities of a new pseudosuchian archosaur from the Middle Triassic of southern Brazil
Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 23(1): 2573750
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2025.2573750
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2025.2573750
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/14772019.2025.2573750
https://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3E0FA946-F24A-474A-8AD7-D50B1A09116C
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Alexis Cornille, Kyla Beguesse, Ewan Wolff, Clemens Zinner, Patrick Asbach, François Clarac & Florian Witzmann (2025)
Skeletal pathologies in extant crocodilians as a window into the paleopathology of fossil archosaurs
The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70079
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70079
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https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.70079
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Ananth Srinivas, Jen A. Bright, John A. Cunningham, Sandra Aparecida Simionato Tavares, Fresia Ricardi-Branco, Ismar de Souza Carvalho, Fabiano Vidoi Iori and Emily J. Rayfield (2025)
Constraints and adaptations in crocodyliform skull evolution
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 292(2058): 20251773
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.1773
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2025.1773
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https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rspb.2025.1773
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María Victoria Fernandez Blanco and Ingmar Werneburg (2025)
Structure and evolution of the embryonic cartilaginous skull of crocodilians
Royal Society Open Science 12(11): 251281
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.251281
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.251281
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https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rsos.251281
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Gabriel S. Ferreira & Serjoscha W. Evers (2025)
Neuroanatomy of Kayentachelys aprix and Eileanchelys waldmani provide insights into the early evolution of the turtle brain
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 71
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00410-4
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13358-025-00410-4
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Lijiangosaurus yongshengensis gen. et sp. nov.
Wei Wang, Qinghua Shang, Jiansheng Wang, Hongke Zi & Chun Li (2025)
Earliest long-necked sauropterygian Lijiangosaurus yongshengensis and plasticity of vertebral evolution in sauropterygian marine reptiles
Communications Biology 8: 1551
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-08911-1
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08911-1
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Fontisaurus tarumbaire gen. et sp. nov.
Andrea Villa, Arnau Bolet, Jozef Klembara, Alejandro Serrano-Martínez, Àngel H. Luján, Josep Fortuny, Massimo Delfino, Burkhard Schillinger & David M. Alba (2025)
A new anguine lizard (Squamata, Anguidae, Anguinae) from the Late Miocene (Vallesian) of the Vallès-Penedès Basin (NE Iberian Peninsula)
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 70
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00411-3
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13358-025-00411-3
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Calvin A. Riiska, Gordon W. Schuett, Joseph R. Mendelson III and Jennifer M. Rieser (2025)
Preserved reptile scales retain microscopic features, revealing a new instance of convergent evolution
Journal of The Royal Society Interface 22(232): 20250513
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2025.0513
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2025.0513
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SHI Jian-Ru, KANG Zhi-Shuai, DONG Li-Yang, JIA Gao-Wen, WANG Jin, JIA Lei & XU Guang-Hui (2025)
The discovery of a large ceratodontiform lungfish from the Middle Triassic (Anisian) of Shanxi, China
Vertebrata Palasiatica (advance online publication)
DOI: 10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.251111
https://www.vertpala.ac.cn/EN/10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.251111
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Caprovesposus daniltshenkoi sp. nov.
Alexandre F. Bannikov, James C. Tyler & Diane M. Tyler (2025)
A new species of the surgeonfish genus †Caprovesposus (Acanthuridae) from the Lower to Middle Miocene of the North Caucasus, Russia
Zootaxa 5719(1): 117-125
doi: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5719.1.6
https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5719.1.6
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https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5719.1.6/57685
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Pannonigadus gen. nov. (Gadidae), Gadiculus weinfurteri sp. nov. (Gadidae), Eleotris pannonicus sp. nov. (Eleotridae), Ponticola planodorsalis sp. nov., and Toxopyge bradicae sp. nov. (Gobiidae)
Werner Schwarzhans (2025)
Fish-life in the Late Miocene Lake Pannon of the Vienna Basin – a review
Annals of the Natural History Museum Vienna 126: 81-109
doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/anhmw.168691
https://anhmw.pensoft.net/article/168691/
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Achille Lenglin, Max Hidalgo, Guido Miranda, Aaron De la Sota, Pierre Caminade, Khalid Belkhir, Olga Otero, Pierre-Olivier Antoine, Carmen Garcia-Davila & Nicolas Hubert (2025)
Early Biogeography of Otophysi Points to the Neotropics as the Cradle of Characiphysan Fishes
Ecology and Evolution 15(11): e72431
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.72431
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.72431
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ece3.72431
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Roniel Freitas-Oliveira, Matheus S. Lima-Ribeiro, Victor H. Mendoza-Rodriguez and Levi Carina Terribile (2025)
Reviewing the Great American Biotic Interchange: climate change as a trigger for biodiversity dispersal
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 292(2058): 20251745
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.1745
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2025.1745
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https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rspb.2025.1745
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Alice E. Maher, Philip G. Cox, Thomas W. Maddox, James D. Gardiner & Karl T. Bates (2025)
New perspectives on head and neck allometry and ecomorphology in tetrapods
Biological Review (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.70099
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/brv.70099
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/brv.70099
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Gábor Botfalvai, Zoltán Csiki-Sava, János Magyar, Barna Páll-Gergely, Levente Koczó, Daniel Ţabără, Gergő Konecsni & Soma Budai (2025)
Paleontological and paleoecological significance of the oldest highly productive Upper Cretaceous (lowermost Maastrichtian) bonebed of Haţeg Basin (western Romania; Densuş-Ciula Formation)
PLoS One 20(11): e0335893
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0335893
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0335893
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Aleksandra Smyrak-Sikora, Peter Betlem, Victoria S. Engelschiøn, William J. Foster, Sten-Andreas Grundvåg, Mads E. Jelby, Morgan T. Jones, Grace E. Shephard, Kasia K. Śliwińska, Madeleine L. Vickers, Valentin Zuchuat, Lars Eivind Augland, Jan Inge Faleide, Jennifer M. Galloway, William Helland-Hansen, Maria A. Jensen, Erik P. Johannessen, Maayke Koevoets, Denise Kulhanek, Gareth S. Lord, Tereza Mosociova, Snorre Olaussen, Sverre Planke, Gregory D. Price, Lars Stemmerik, and Kim Senger (2025)
Phanerozoic paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic evolution in Svalbard
Climate of the Past 21(11): 2133-2187
doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-2133-2025
https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/2133/2025/
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https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/2133/2025/cp-21-2133-2025.pdf
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Zhenxuan Lai (2025)
The untapped potential of ancient DNA in understanding evolutionary adaptations: from woolly mammoths to plant macrofossils
Advances in Engineering Innovation 16(10): 44-48
doi: https://doi.org/10.54254/2977-3903/2025.29091
https://www.ewadirect.com/journal/aei/article/view/29091
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E. Ershova, S. Kuzmina, S. Sycheva, I. Zyuganova, E. Izumova, A. Zharov, V. Yu. Kuznetsov, F. Maksimov, S. Kolesnikov, N. Lavrenov and E. Ponomarenko (2025)
Paleoenvironments of the Last Interglacial–Glacial Transition on the East European Plain: Insights into Climate-Driven Ecosystem Dynamics
Quaternary 8(4): 66
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/quat8040066
https://www.mdpi.com/2571-550X/8/4/66
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Anbin Wu, Jian Cao, Jingkun Zhang, Wenxuan Hu, Yuce Wang, Chenjia Zhang & Wenjun He (2025)
Volcanically driven Hg–C–S cycling and climate change across the Early Permian Artinskian warming
Communications Earth & Environment 6: 887
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02843-8
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02843-8
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Muditha Goonetilleke, Ricardo L. Silva & Paul R. Durkin (2025)
A continental record of the late Campanian negative carbon isotopic excursion (LCE, Late Campanian Event) in the Dinosaur Park Formation, Alberta, Canada
Cretaceous Research 106263
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2025.106263
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667125001867
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Christian Klug, Günter Schweigert, René Lauer, Bruce Lauer, Dirk Fuchs, Kan Terakado & Amane Tajika (2025)
Reproductive biology and anatomy of ammonites
Scientific Reports 15: 39621
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-23299-y
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-23299-y