Mammoth mitogenomes from Mexico + Unenlagiidae + Huashanosaurus + Kostensuchus + Craspedochelys renzi + Etelis bathypelagicus + Heterostraci + more free pdfs
Ben Creisler
Ben Creisler
I hope all are well.
Some recent or not yet mentioned vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:
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Joanna Baker, Robert A. Barton & Chris Venditti (2025)
Human dexterity and brains evolved hand in hand
Communications Biology 8: 1257
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-08686-5
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08686-5
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Gayani Senevirathne, Serena C. Fernandopulle, Daniel Richard, Stephanie L. Baumgart, Anika Liv Christensen, Matteo Fabbri, Jakob Höppner, Harald Jüppner, Peishu Li, Vivien Bothe, Nadia Fröbisch, Ian Simcock, Owen J. Arthurs, Alistair Calder, Naomi Freilich, Niamh C. Nowlan, Ian A. Glass, April Craft & Terence D. Capellini (2025)
The evolution of hominin bipedalism in two steps
Nature (advance online publication)
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09399-9
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09399-9
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Nadav Mishol, Gadi Herzlinger, Yoel Rak, Uzy Smilanksy, Liran Carmel and David Gokhman (2025)
Candidate Denisovan fossils identified through gene regulatory phenotyping
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122(35): e2513968122
doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2513968122
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2513968122
Free pdf:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2513968122
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Zdzisław Lewandowski, Slawomir Wacewicz, Juan Olvido Perea-García, Vojtěch Fiala, Marta Sibierska, Anna Szala & Dariusz P. Danel (2025)
The Apemen Faces Database (ApeFD)
Scientific Data 12: 1458
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05813-z
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-05813-z
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Clive Gamble (2025)
Why Africa has no Houses and Other Questions for Deep History
Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/ppr.2025.10065
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Christopher M Stimpson, Alex Wilshaw, Benjamin Utting, Nguyen Thi Mai Huong, Nguyen Thi Hao, D L Vu, Tharsika Vimala, Hugh McColl, Emily M Breslin, Eppie R Jones, Ruairidh Macleod, Rachael Holmes, Shawn O'Donnell, Thorsten Kahlert, Sinh Pham Khanh, Bui Van Manh, Eske Willerslev and Ryan J. Rabett (2025)
TBH1: 12 000-year-old human skeleton and projectile point shed light on demographics and mortality in Terminal Pleistocene Southeast Asia.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B 292(2053): 20251819
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.1819
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2025.1819
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Marlize Lombard (2025)
Bowhunting with Poisoned Arrows in the Afrotropics from Recent Times to the Pleistocene
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 33: 4
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-025-09738-0
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10816-025-09738-0
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Antonio Pineda, Beniamino Mecozzi, Alessio Iannucci, Marco Carpentieri, Raffaele Sardella, Suzanne Simone & Marie-Hélène Moncel (2025)
Hominin and carnivore roles during the formation of the early Middle Pleistocene site of Loreto (Venosa Basin, southern Italy)
Journal of Quaternary Science (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.70010
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jqs.70010
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jqs.70010
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Frank F. Lanfranchi, Joseph Wekselblatt, Daniel A. Wagenaar & Doris Y. Tsao (2025)
A compressed hierarchy for visual form processing in the tree shrew
Nature (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09441-w
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09441-w
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Eduardo Arrieta-Donato, Ángeles Tavares-Guzmán, Miriam Bravo-Lopez, Viridiana Villa-Islas, Alejandra Castillo-Carbajal, Wenxi Li, Ernesto Garfias-Morales, Rigoberto Padilla-Bustos, Marcela Sandoval-Velasco, Luis Córdoba-Barradas,Ruben Manzanilla-López, J. Camilo Chacón-Duque, Alejandro López-Jímenez, Mashaal Sohail, Joaquín Arroyo-Cabrales, María C. Ávila-Arcos, and Federico Sánchez-Quinto (2025)
Columbian mammoth mitogenomes from Mexico uncover the species' complex evolutionary history.
Science (advance online publication)
DOI: 10.1126/science.adt9651
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt9651
Free pdf:
https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/science.adt9651
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Rodrigo Pérez Ortega (2025)
Bones beneath the runway.
Science 389(6763): 870-873
doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aeb7640
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Z. Jack Tseng and Narimane Chatar (2025)
Mechanical function of the unique alveolar torus in the sabretooth Nimravus brachyops (Nimravidae, Carnivora)
Biology Letters 21(8): 20250208
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0208
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0208
Free pdf:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0208
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Erin M. Keenan Early, Christopher J. Bell, Matthew J. Collins & Timothy M. Shanahan (2025)
Proteomic analysis resulting in species-level identification of recently diverged North American arvicoline rodents
Journal of Quaternary Science (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.70011
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jqs.70011
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jqs.70011
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Nuttakorn Taewcharoen, Megu Gunji, Rachel Norris & Emma Sherratt (2025)
Multi-level analysis of morphological variation in the vertebral column of lagomorph mammals
Journal of Evolutionary Biology, voaf102
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/jeb/voaf102
https://academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jeb/voaf102/8242628
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Florentin Cailleux, Lars van den Hoek Ostende and Peter Joniak (2025)
The late Miocene Bats (Chiroptera, Mammalia) from the Pannonian region, Slovakia
Journal of Paleontology (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2025.10136
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Darío Fidalgo, Antonio Rosas, Víctor Vizcaíno-Varo, Carlos Tornero & Joan Madurell-Malapeira (2025)
New evidence for the distribution of C3-C4 grasslands throughout the Quaternary from stable isotope analysis in hippopotamuses
Spanish Journal of Palaeontology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.7203/sjp.30632
https://turia.uv.es/index.php/sjpalaeontology/article/view/30632/
Free pdf:
https://turia.uv.es/index.php/sjpalaeontology/article/view/30632/32795
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Albert Navarro-Gil, Sara García-Morato, Marc Furió, Shubham Pal, Claudia Iannicelli, Casto Laborda-López, Jordi Agustí & Pedro Piñero (2025)
Taphonomy of small mammals and paleoenvironment of the QS-2/3 unit from the Quibas site (Early Pleistocene, southern Iberian Peninsula)
Spanish Journal of Palaeontology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.7203/sjp.29840
https://turia.uv.es/index.php/sjpalaeontology/article/view/29840
Free pdf:
https://turia.uv.es/index.php/sjpalaeontology/article/view/29840/32803
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Thodoris Danis, Dana Lin, Daniel S Caetano, Gregory F Funston & Antonis Rokas (2025)
Gestation length both shapes and is shaped by other life history traits in terrestrial eutherian mammals
Evolution Letters, qraf028
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/evlett/qraf028
https://academic.oup.com/evlett/advance-article/doi/10.1093/evlett/qraf028/8241169
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Idriss Pelletan, Raphaël Cornette & Anick Abourachid (2025)
Ecomorphological Analysis of the Bird Lumbosacral Organ in an Evolutionary Context
Journal of Morphology 286(8): e70073
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.70073
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jmor.70073
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jmor.70073
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Jingmai K. O’Connor, Alexander D. Clark, Pei-Chen Kuo, Min Wang, Akiko Shinya, Constance Van Beek & Huali Chang (2025)
Avian features of Archaeopteryx feeding apparatus reflect elevated demands of flight
The Innovation (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xinn.2025.101086
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666675825002899
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Matías J. Motta, Federico L. Agnolín, Federico Brissón Egli, Sebastián Rozadilla & Fernando E. Novas (2025)
Phylogenetic relationships of Unenlagiidae among Paraves (Dinosauria)
Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 23(1): 2529608
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2025.2529608
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2025.2529608
Free pdf:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/14772019.2025.2529608
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Huashanosaurus qini gen. et sp. nov.
MO Jinyou, ZHOU Xiuzhen, FU Qiongyao, XIONG Duo, HU Minhang & XU Xing (2025)
A New Eusauropod Dinosaur from the Lower and Middle Jurassic Wangmen Formation of Ningming County, Guangxi, South China
Acta Geologica Sinica (English edition) 99(4): 909-924
DOI:10.1111/1755-6724.15331
https://www.geojournals.cn/dzxbcn/dzxbcn/article/abstract/2025endzxb04001
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Tito Aureliano, Aline M. Ghilardi, Jonatan Kaluza & Agustín G. Martinelli (2025)
Inside a duck-billed dinosaur: Vertebral bone microstructure of Huallasaurus (Hadrosauridae), Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia
The Anatomical Records (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70040
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70040
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https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.70040
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Alana Borsekowsky, Lísie Vitoria Soares Damke, Maurício Garcia da Silva & Átila Augusto Stock Da-Rosa (2025)
Dinossaurinho ou Dinossaurão? Investigação da variação intraespecífica nos primeiros dinossauros não-avianos conhecidos
[Little dinosaur or big dinosaur? Investigating intraspecific variation in the earliest known non-avian dinosaurs]
Terrae Didatica 21(00): e025007 (in Portuguese)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20396/td.v21i00.8678935
https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/td/article/view/8678935
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https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/td/article/view/8678935/35932
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ZHANG Xiaoqin, WANG Zhenji, WANG Guofu, SU Xing & WANG Tao (2025)
Advances in the Study of Dinosaur Respiratory System.
Journal of Chuxiong Normal University 40(3): 76-85. (in Chinese)
http://cxtc.magtechjournal.com/CN/abstract/abstract685.shtml
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Kostensuchus atrox gen. et sp. nov.
Fernando E. Novas, Diego Pol, Federico L. Agnolín, Ismar de Souza Carvalho, Makoto Manabe, Takanobu Tsuihiji, Sebastián Rozadilla, Gabriel L. Lio & Marcelo P. Isasi (2025)
A new large hypercarnivorous crocodyliform from the Maastrichtian of Southern Patagonia, Argentina.
PLoS One 20(8): e0328561
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0328561
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0328561
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Gabriel Mestriner, Gregory F. Funston, Sterling J. Nesbitt, Júlio C. A. Marsola, David C. Evans, Christian A. Sidor, Max C. Langer & Aaron R. H. LeBlanc (2025)
The histology of rhynchosaur (Diapsida, Archosauromorpha) ankylothecodonty
Journal of Anatomy (advance online publication)
doi: https: //doi.org/10.1111/joa.70037
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.70037
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joa.70037
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Silvio Renesto, Cinzia Ragni & Fabio Magnani (2025)
The first specimen with skin preserved of Lariosaurus (Eusauropterygia) from the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio (Switzerland) allows inferences about its swimming method
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 56
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00396-z
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13358-025-00396-z
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Javier Cardenal & Matias Reolid (2025)
Trace fossils of floating reptiles from the Carnian in the Tabular Cover (S Spain)
Estudios Geológicos 81(1): 1125
doi: https://doi.org/10.3989/egeol.45687.1125
https://estudiosgeol.revistas.csic.es/index.php/estudiosgeol/article/view/1125
Free pdf:
https://estudiosgeol.revistas.csic.es/index.php/estudiosgeol/article/view/1125/1451
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Craspedochelys renzi sp. nov.
Edwin-Alberto Cadena, Jorge D. Carrillo-Briceño, Dylan Bastiaans, Tandra Fairbanks-Freund, Loïc Costeur & Torsten M. Scheyer (2025)
The first occurrence of “Plesiochelyidae” marine turtles in the Early Cretaceous of South America
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 52
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00394-1
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13358-025-00394-1
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Xavier A Jenkins, Roger BJ Benson, David P Ford, Claire Browning, Vincent Fernandez, Kathleen Dollman, Timothy Gomes, Elizabeth Griffiths, Jonah N Choiniere & Brandon R Peecook (2025)
Evolutionary assembly of crown reptile anatomy clarified by late Paleozoic relatives of Neodiapsida
Peer Community Journal 5: e89
doi: https://doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.620 -
https://peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10.24072/pcjournal.620/
Free pdf:
https://peercommunityjournal.org/item/10.24072/pcjournal.620.pdf
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Eleni Anna Charmpila, Radek Šanda, Ivana Buj, Ignacio Doadrio, Silvia Perea, Spase Shumka & Jasna Vukić (2025)
Insight into phylogeny of Alburnus (Cypriniformes: Leuciscidae) with zooming in on Peri-Adriatic region
Hydrobiologia (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-025-05982-3
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10750-025-05982-3
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Stoilodon lindenbergi sp. nov.
Jahn J. Hornung, Eric W. A. Mulder, Christian J. Nyhuis & Sven Sachs (2024)
A new species of Stoilodon (Chondrichthyes: Holocephali) from the Lower Cretaceous of Germany, representing the first record of this chimaeroid genus from Western Europe
Eine neue Art von Stoilodon (Chondrichthyes: Holocephali) aus der Unterkreide von Deutschland, Erstnachweis dieser Chimären-Gattung in Westeuropa
Geologie und Paläontologie in Westfalen 98: 25-41
https://www.lwl.org/wmfn-download/Geologie_und_Palaeontologie_in_Westfalen/GuP_Heft_98.pdf
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Etelis bathypelagicus sp. nov.
Orangel Aguilera, Carlos De Gracia, Félix Rodriguez, Olga Oliveira de Araújo, Paulo Andreas Buckup, Philippe Béarez, Ana Paula Linhares, Hilton Tulio Costi, Werner Schwarzhans, Loic Costeur, Danae Thivaiou, Carla Semiramis Silveira & Ricardo Tadeu Lopes (2025)
Fossil deep-sea snapper (Actinopterygii: Lutjanidae) from the Last Interoceanic Central American Deep Strait (LICADS)
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 53
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00391-4
https://sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s13358-025-00391-4
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Emma Randle, Joseph N. Keating & Robert S. Sansom (2025)
A phylogeny for Heterostraci (stem-gnathostomes)
Papers in Palaeontology 11(5): e70030]
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.70030
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.70030
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/spp2.70030
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Jes Rust & Victoria E. McCoy (2025)
Fossilisation ecology – a more complete concept of taphonomy
Trends in Ecology & Evolution (advance online publication)
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2025.07.016
https://www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/fulltext/S0169-5347(25)00221-6
Free pdf:
https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0169-5347%2825%2900221-6
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Adriana Alzate, Roberto Rozzi, Julian A. Velasco, D. Ross Robertson, Alexander Zizka, Joseph A. Tobias, Adrian Hill, Christine D. Bacon, Thijs Janzen, Loïc Pellissier, Fons van der Plas, James Rosindell & Renske E. Onstein (2025)
Evolutionary age correlates with range size across plants and animals
Nature Communications 16: 7894
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-62124-y
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-62124-y
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Sreepat Jain, Mariusz A. Salamon, Christian Klug, Dean R. Lomax, Bartosz J. Płachno and Piotr Duda (2025)
An unusual predator-prey relationship inferred from a Bathonian (Middle Jurassic) nautilid from southern Poland
Lethaia 58(3):
doi: https://doi.org/10.18261/let.58.3.5
https://www.scup.com/doi/10.18261/let.58.3.5
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Antonio Sánchez-Marco, Romain Amiot, Delphine Angst, Salvador Bailon, Juan Francisco Betancort, Eric Buffetaut, Emma García-Castellano, Lourdes Guillén-Vargas, Nicolas Lazzerini, Christophe Lécuyer, Alejandro Lomoschitz, Luis Felipe López-Jurado, Àngel H. Luján, María Antonia Perera-Betancort, Manuel J. Salesa, Albert G. Sellés and Gema Siliceo (2025)
Unraveling the Strange Case of the First Canarian Land Fauna (Lower Pliocene)
Fossil Studies 3(3): 13
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/fossils3030013
https://www.mdpi.com/2813-6284/3/3/13
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L.S. Basell, P.S. Toms, C. Norman, R. Hosfield, P. Tanner, J. Wood & A.G. Brown (2025)
Resolving the late Pleistocene (MIS3–1) sedimentary sequence from Doniford, UK: Implications for British-Irish ice sheet extent, megafaunal history and hominin occupation
Quaternary Science Reviews 368: 109509
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109509
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379125003294
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David Manuel Martín-Perea, Alicia Medialdea, Juan Marín, Natalia Abellán, Irene Solano-Megías, Carlos Arteaga, Antonio Rodríguez-Hidalgo, David Uribelarrea, Xabier Arroyo, Agness Gidna, Audax Mabulla & José Manuel Maíllo-Fernández (2025)
Geology and chronology of the Ndutu and Naisiusiu type sites: implications for Middle and Later Stone Age occupations at Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania)
Quaternary Science Reviews 368: 109578
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109578
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379125003981
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Gustavo Macêdo do Carmo, Sueli de Souza Lima, Hermínio Ismael de Araújo-Júnior, Ralph Maturano Pinheiro, Diogo Jorge de Melo & Graziella Couto-Ribeiro (2024)
Paleo-faunistic checklist of the Tremembé Formation (Oligocene of the Taubaté Basin, Paraíba Valley, Brazil)
Terrae Didatica 20(00): e024013
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20396/td.v20i00.8674375
https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/td/article/view/8674375
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https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/td/article/view/8674375/33980
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Priya Agnihotri, Vikram Partap Singh, Hukam Singh, David Grimaldi, Mahesh G. Thakkar, Tanu Priya, K.A. Subramanian, Suryendu Dutta & Shreya Mishra (2025)
Eocene amber fossils reveal how complex trophic interactions shaped tropical rainforest biodiversity
iScience 113430
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.113430
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004225016918
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Simoné Kock & Marion K. Bamford (2025)
Fossil wood from the Permian-Triassic Beaufort Group of South Africa’s Karoo Basin: Implications for palaeoclimate
Earth History and Biodiversity 100032
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hisbio.2025.100032
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950475925000164
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Ashu Khosla, Karen Chin, Omkar Verma, Spencer G. Lucas, Adrian P. Hunt, Dangpeng Xi, Debi Dutta & Habib Alimohammadian (2025)
Palaeoenvironmental and palaeoecological inferences from inclusions in vertebrate omnivore coprolites from the Upper Cretaceous Lameta Formation of central India
Cretaceous Research 172(4): 106110
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2025.106110
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195667125000333
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Ruoyuan Qiu, Xiujuan Bao, David B. Kemp, Jiaqi Guo, Shuai Yuan, Wang Zhang, Huajian Wang, Mu Liu, Ruizhen Zhang, Bo Wan, Liang Zhao, Yongyun Hu & Zhijun Jin (2025)
Elevated atmospheric CO2 drove spatial variability in terrestrial organic carbon burial during the Toarcian hyperthermal
Communications Earth & Environment 6: 700
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02711-5
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02711-5
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Jiabin Wu, Licheng Guo, Shangfa Xiong, Shiling Yang, Xiaoxiao Yang, Yu Zhang, Man Zhang, Qiaowen Zhang, Jingyi Cui, Wenying Jiang & Bin Zhang (2025)
Enhanced Continental Weathering Contributed to the Termination of the Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum
Geophysical Research Letters 52(17): e2025GL118302
doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL118302
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025GL118302
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https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2025GL118302
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Matheo López-Pachón & Jordi Marcé-Nogué (2025)
The crucial role of meshing in computational fluid dynamics simulations for organic geometries in paleobiology: Describing fluid dynamics performance through best practices
Methods in Ecology and Evolution (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.70146
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.70146
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https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/2041-210X.70146
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