Dorcopsoides cowpatensis + Akidostropheus + Ammutichthys + Eogorgon + Erebusia + Krampusichthys + Wudelenia + Paraplesiopoma + more free pdfs
Ben Creisler
Ben Creisler
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Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:
Luke D Fannin, Chalachew M Seyoum, Vivek V Venkataraman, Justin D Yeakel, Christine M Janis, Thure E Cerling & Nathaniel J Dominy (2025)
Behavior drives morphological change during human evolution
Science 389(6759): 488-493
DOI:10.1126/science.ado2359
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado2359
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https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/science.ado2359
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Roberta Davidson, Shyamsundar Ravishankar, Yassine Souilmi, Xavier Roca-Rada, Colin Sobek, Leonard Taufik, Siobhan Evans, Gludhug A. Purnomo, Adam B. Rohrlach, Thomas Harvey, Christian Haarkötter, Karina Pfeiler, Dawn Lewis, Bastien Llamas, Jamie R. Wood & Vilma Pérez (2025)
The necessity for authentication of ancient DNA from archaeological artefacts
Journal of Archaeological Science 181: 106317
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2025.106317
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440325001669
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Styliani Kyrikou, Elena Marinova, Ines J.E. Bludau, Panagiotis Karkanas, Eleni Panagopoulou, Vangelis Tourloukis, Annett Junginger & Katerina Harvati (2025)
Local environment and fire history of a potential Lower Palaeolithic refugium in the Megalopolis Basin, southern Greece, during Marine Isotope Stage 12
Quaternary Research (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2024.59
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Rhianna C. Drummond-Clarke, Susan Chege Reuben, Fiona A. Stewart, Alex K. Piel & Tracy L. Kivell (2025)
Foraging strategy and tree structure as drivers of arboreality and suspensory behaviour in savannah-dwelling chimpanzees
Behavioral and Evolutionary Ecology 13: 1561078.doi2025
doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2025.1561078
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/ecology-and-evolution/articles/10.3389/fevo.2025.1561078/full
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Emma Vitale, Tatiana R. Feuerborn & Matthew Walls (2025)
Human-Dog Symbiosis and Ecological Dynamics in the Arctic
Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews 34(3): e70009
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.70009
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/evan.70009
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/evan.70009
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Kathryn M. Everson, Luca Pozzi, Meredith A. Barrett, Mary E. Blair, Mariah E. Donohue, Peter M. Kappeler, Andrew C. Kitchener, Alan R. Lemmon, Emily Moriarty Lemmon, Carlos J. Pavón-Vázquez, Ute Radespiel, Blanchard Randrianambinina, Rodin M. Rasoloarison, Solofonirina Rasoloharijaona, Christian Roos, Jordi Salmona, Anne D. Yoder, Rosana Zenil-Ferguson, Dietmar Zinner & David W. Weisrock (2025)
Multiple bursts of speciation in Madagascar’s endangered lemurs
Nature Communications 16: 7070
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-62310-y
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-62310-y
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Bryan S McLean, David Bloom, Edward B Davis, Robert P Guralnick, Sharlene E Santana, Julie M Allen, Heidi Amarilla-Stevens, Kayce C Bell, David C Blackburn, Jeffrey E Bradley, Robert D Bradley, Matthew D Carling, Alexandra Coconis, Jocelyn P Colella, Chris J Conroy, Joseph A Cook, Helena de Bastos Cruz Machado, John R Demboski, Katrina M Derieg, Andrew Doll, John P Dumbacher, William D Duncan, Jonathan L Dunnum, Chris Feldman, Adam W Ferguson, Kendall E Fitzgerald, Maureen E Flannery, Kelly Hood, Angela D Hornsby, Dianna Krejsa, Raphael LaFrance, Jessica E Light, Silvia E Pavan, Shalina Peterson, Adrienne Raniszewski, Eric A Rickart, Shannen Robson, Rebecca J Rowe, Dakota M Rowsey, Alyssa Semerdjian, Theodore Stankowich, Laura Steger, Richard Stevens, Katherine M Thibault, Cody W Thompson, Nathan S Upham, Alyson Wilkins & Elizabeth A Wommack (2025)
Extending mammal specimens with their essential phenotypic traits
Journal of Mammalogy, gyaf062
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyaf062
https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jmammal/gyaf062/8214011
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Jan van der Made, Ignacio A. Lazagabaster, Paula García-Medrano and Isabel Cáceres (2025)
Southernmost Eurasian Record of Reindeer (Rangifer) in MIS 8 at Galería (Atapuerca, Spain): Evidence of Progressive Southern Expansion of Glacial Fauna Across Climatic Cycles
Quaternary 8(3): 43
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/quat8030043
https://www.mdpi.com/2571-550X/8/3/43
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Tymbri Potter, Sunshyne Santos, Donald R. Prothero, Kristin I. Watmore, and Megan E. Sims (2025)
Changes in size and limb proportions of bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) through the late Pleistocene and Holocene
Lucas et al., 2025, Fossil Record 10. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 100: 175--179
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Donald R. Prothero and Scott Kottkamp (2025)
A new skull of the hesperhyine peccary Hesperhys vagrans (Artiodactyla: Tayassuidae) from the Middle Miocene Barstow Formation, California
Lucas et al., 2025, Fossil Record 10. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 100: 181--186
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Kristin I. Watmore, Donald R. Prothero & Meena Madan Richards (2025)
Gigantic Macroraptorial Sperm Whale Tooth from the Miocene of Orange County, California
Marine Mammal Science e70036
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.70036
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mms.70036
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Sunshyne M. Santos, Donald R. Prothero, Kristin I. Watmore, and Ed Welsh (2025)
How did extinct rhinoceros limbs grow? Allometric growth in rhinoceros limbs
Lucas et al., 2025, Fossil Record 10. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 100: 207--211
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Paul Medina-González & Karen Moreno (2025)
Morphofunctional Space of the Forelimb in Caraguatypotherium munozi (Notoungulata; Mesotheriidae): Insights Into Wrist-Powered Digging
Journal of Morphology 286(8): e70069
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.70069
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jmor.70069
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jmor.70069
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Yuma Asai, Tatsuro Ando, Hiroshi Sawamura & Shoji Hayashi (2025)
New evidence for the co-occurrence of two genera of Paleoparadoxiidae (Mammalia, Desmostylia) from the Middle Miocene of Japan: insights into taxonomic status and paleodiversity in Desmostylia.
PeerJ 13:e19578
doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19578
https://peerj.com/articles/19578/
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Dorcopsoides cowpatensis sp. nov.
Isaac A. R. Kerr & Gavin J. Prideaux (2025)
A new fossil kangaroo species of the genus Dorcopsoides (Marsupialia, Macropodinae) from the late Miocene Ongeva Local Fauna, central Australia
Alcheringa (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2025.2521772
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03115518.2025.2521772
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/03115518.2025.2521772
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Eric N. del Campo, Nicolás R. Chimento & Federico L. Agnolín (2025)
Postcranial remains of Eutherian mammals from Punta Peligro (Paleocene), Patagonia, Argentina.
Historical Biology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2025.2537151
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2025.2537151
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Algarpes ferus igen. et isp. nov.
Rafel Matamales-Andreu, Eudald Mujal, Àngel Galobart & Josep Fortuny (2025)
Track-trackmaker correlation of co-occurring gorgonopsian bones and footprints from the early–?Middle Permian of equatorial Pangaea
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 113174
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.113174
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018225004596
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Santiago Claramunt, Catherine Sheard, Joseph W. Brown, Gala Cortés-Ramírez, Joel Cracraft, Michelle M. Su, Brian C. Weeks & Joseph A. Tobias (2025)
A new time tree of birds reveals the interplay between dispersal, geographic range size, and diversification
Current Biology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.07.004
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098222500870X
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00870-X
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https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0960-9822%2825%2900870-X
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Gerald Mayr (2025)
A Derived Morphology of the Quadrate May Support a Previously Unrecognized Major Higher-Level Clade of Neoavian Birds
Journal of Morphology 286(8): e70070
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.70070
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jmor.70070
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jmor.70070
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Anikó B. Tóth, John Alroy, S. Kathleen Lyons and Andrew Paul Allen (2025)
Effects of phylogenetic distance, niche overlap and habitat alteration on spatial co-occurrence patterns in Neotropical bats and birds
Proceedings of the Royal Society B 292(2051): 20241679
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.1679
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2024.1679
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https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rspb.2024.1679
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Juan García-Palou, Erik Isasmendi, and Angélica Torices (2025)
An analysis of the first fossil remains of styracosternan ornithopod dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous of La Rioja (Spain) and its paleobiogeographical implications.
Palaeontologia Electronica 28(2): a34
doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/1364
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025/5599-styracosternan-of-la-rioja
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https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/pdfs/1364.pdf
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Julian C. G. Silva Junior, Gabriel S. Ferreira, Agustín G. Martinelli, Thiago S. Marinho & Felipe C. Montefeltro (2025)
Standing giants: a digital biomechanical model for bipedal postures in sauropod dinosaurs
Palaeontology 68(4): e70019
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.70019
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pala.70019
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/pala.70019
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Donald R. Prothero, Kristin I. Watmore, and Ed Welsh (2025)
What is graviportality? Interspecific limb allometry in large quadrupedal dinosaurs and mammals
Lucas et al., 2025, Fossil Record 10. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 100: 189--196
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Crocodylus sudani sp. nov.
Khalafallah Salih, Johannes Müller, Ali Eisawi & Faysal Bibi (2025)
A new late Pleistocene fossil crocodile from Sudan reveals hidden diversity of Crocodylus in Africa
Scientific Reports 15: 27433
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-08980-6
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-08980-6
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Akidostropheus oligos gen. et sp. nov.
Alaska N. Schubul, Adam D. Marsh & Ben T. Kligman (2025)
A diverse assemblage of tanystropheid archosauromorphs from the continental interior of Late Triassic Pangea includes a new taxon (Akidostropheus oligos gen. et sp. nov.)
Palaeodiversity 18(1): 99-125
doi: https://doi.org/10.18476/pale.v18.a5
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Donald T. McKnight, Deborah S. Bower, Ellen Ariel, Stephen Beatty, Simon Clulow, Marilyn Connell, Annette R. Deppe, Sean Doody, Alastair Freeman, Arthur Georges, Samantha L. Hannabass, Ethan C. Hollender, Hunter Howell, Aaron Krochmal, Day B. Ligon, Eric Munscher, Eric J. Nordberg, Timothy C. Roth, Anthony Santoro, Jason Schaffer, Angela Simms, Ricky-John Spencer, Paul Stone, Kameron C. Voves, Andrew D. Walde, Skye Wassens, Michael A. Welsh, Nick S. Whiterod, Wytamma Wirth & James U. Van Dyke (2025)
Does a lack of juveniles indicate a threat? Understanding body size distributions in a group of long-lived vertebrates
Journal of Animal Ecology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.70093
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2656.70093
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https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1365-2656.70093
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Yi-Lu Liaw, Chih-Kai Chuang & Cheng-Hsiu Tsai (2025)
The first fossil loggerhead sea turtle (Cheloniidae: Caretta) from the North Pacific and its nannofossil biostratigraphy
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 42
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00392-3
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13358-025-00392-3
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Kenneth T. Higgs & Patrick A. Meere (2024)
Tetrapod trackways from the Upper Devonian St. Finan's Sandstone Formation, southwest Kerry, Ireland
Irish Journal of Earth Sciences 42: 97-118
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ijes.2024.a935022
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/article/935022
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https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/article/935022/pdf
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Dana E. Korneisel & Hillary C. Maddin (2025)
Review of the tetrapod skull–neck boundary: implications for the evolution of the atlas–axis complex
Biological Reviews (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.70053
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/brv.70053
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/brv.70053
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Pablo Oyanadel-Urbina, Jaime A. Villafaña, Karina E. Buldrini, Héctor A. Ramos-Rojas, Yusse Hernández-Mora, Martín Chávez-Hoffmeister, Sven N. Nielsen, Jorge A. Campos-Medina, Sandra Rebolledo, and Marcelo M. Rivadeneira (2025)
What do we know about Neogene bony fishes from Chile? Diversity and biogeographic implications.
Palaeontologia Electronica 28(2): a30
doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/1385
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025/5497-neogene-bony-fishes-from-chile
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Thrissops kimmeridgensis sp. nov.
Martin Ebert (2025)
New species of the genus Thrissops (Teleostei, Ichthyodectiformes) in the Upper Jurassic of the Solnhofen-Archipelago (Germany) and Kimmeridge Clay (England).
Zitteliana 99: 1-32
doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/zitteliana.99.159055
https://zitteliana.pensoft.net/article/159055/
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Paraplesiopoma transylvanica gen. et sp. nov.
Nicolae Trif, Roxana Pirnea, Andrej Čerňanský, Werner Schwarzhans, Ramona Bălc, Sreepat Jain, Andrzej Kaim, Sofia Bakayeva, and Krzysztof Hryniewicz (2025)
A diverse Campanian biota from the Bozeș Formation (Petrești, Romania): Insights into the paleontology and paleoecology of a transitional sequence.
Palaeontologia Electronica, 28(2): a32.
doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/1536
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025/5577-bozes-formation-campanian-biota
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Ammutichthys loricatus gen. et sp. nov.
Eogorgon bizzarinii gen. et sp. nov.
Eomyctophum mainardii sp. nov.
Erebusia tenebrae gen. et sp. nov.
Krampusichthys tridentinus gen. et sp. nov.
Laurinichthys boschelei gen. et sp. nov.
Scopeloides bellatorsp. sp. nov.
Scopeloides violator sp. nov.
Solterichthys macrognathus gen. et sp. nov.
Wudelenia diabolica gen. et sp. nov.
Pietro Calzoni, Luca Giusberti & Giorgio Carnevale (2025)
The Ypresian fishes of the Solteri Lagerstätte (Trento, Northern Italy): a glimpse into the early Eocene Tethyan mesopelagic assemblages
Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 131(2): 457-514.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54103/2039-4942/28705
https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/28705
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https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/28705/24486
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Edoardo Pagliuzzi, Giorgio Carnevale, Jürgen Kriwet, and Giuseppe Marramà (2025)
Geometric morphometrics as a tool to support taxonomic identification in palaeontology: A comparison with traditional morphometrics in the study of isolated fossil shark teeth.
Palaeontologia Electronica, 28(2):a33.
doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/1567
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025/5603-geometric-morphometrics-on-fossil-shark-teeth
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Bianca A. Vale, John G. Lundberg, Marcelo S. Rocha, Iracilda Sampaio & Simoni Santos (2025)
Evolutionary Relationships Among the Amazonian Catfish Genus Hypophthalmus Cuvier, 1829 (Siluriformes, Pimelodidae) Suggest Diversification During Plio-Pleistocene
Zoologica Scripta (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.70008
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/zsc.70008
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/zsc.70008
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Sven Pallacks, Patrizia Ziveri, Helen A. Jannke, Chien-Hsiang Lin, Adam V. Subhas, Eric Galbraith, Stefanie Kaboth-Bahr, Oliver Friedrich, André Bahr, Andreas Koutsodendris, Jörg Pross & Richard D. Norris (2025)
Ocean deoxygenation linked to ancient mesopelagic fish decline
Communications Earth & Environment 6: 596
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02568-8
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02568-8
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Brendan Matthew Anderson & Warren D. Allmon (2025)
Punctuated equilibria remains the dominant pattern of morphospecies origin in the fossil record: an analysis using the “persistence of ancestor” criterion
Paleobiology (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.10051
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Alistair J. Monteath, Mary E. Edwards, Duane Froese, Lesleigh Anderson, Benjamin V. Gaglioti, Scott L. Cocker, Julie Brigham-Grette, Matthew J. Wooller, Bruce Finney & Mark B. Abbott (2025)
Late Quaternary environmental change in eastern Beringia
Quaternary Science Reviews 368: 109527
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109527
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379125003476
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Vladimir Nikolov, Polina Pavlishina, Docho Dochev & Stephen L. Brusatte (2025)
The paleoecology and taphonomy of a Santonian-Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) dinosaur-bearing vertebrate locality from Bulgaria: a window into an underexplored part of the Late Cretaceous European Archipelago
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 41
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00388-z
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13358-025-00388-z
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Carolina S. Marques, Elisabete Malafaia, Soraia Pereira, Vanda F. Santos & Emmanuel Dufourq (2025)
A review of machine learning applications for identification and classification problems in paleontology
Ecological Informatics 103329
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2025.103329
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1574954125003383
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Michela Amendola, Andrea Barucci, Andrea Baucon, Chiara Zini, Claudia Borrelli, Simone Casati, Andrea di Cencio, Sandra Fiore, Salvatore Siano, Juri Agresti, Carlos Neto de Carvalho, Federico Bernardini, Girolamo Lo Russo, Alberto Collareta and Giulia Bosio (2025)
Exploring How Micro-Computed Tomography Imaging Technology Impacts the Preservation of Paleontological Heritage
Heritage 8(8): 310
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage8080310
https://www.mdpi.com/2571-9408/8/8/310
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Zuoling Chen, Peizong Lü, Shiling Yang, Jimin Sun, Xijun Ni, Chenyan Li, Licheng Guo & Zhongli Ding (2025)
Extreme warming intensified lacustrine deoxygenation and methane cycling during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
Communications Earth & Environment 6: 592
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02597-3
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02597-3
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Yannicke Dauphin (2025)
Navigating the Limits: Unraveling Unidentified Fossil Bone and Tooth Fragments Through Histology, Chemistry, and Multivariate Statistics
Minerals 15(8): 807
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/min15080807
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/15/8/807
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Free textbook:
Vanessa K Hilliard, Lisa B. Whitenack, and Bill Ryerson (2025)
Comparative Vertebrate and Human Anatomy: Ecology, Evolution, and Function.
PALNI Open Press
doi: https://doi.org/10.59319/YHFP2525
https://pressbooks.palni.org/comparativevertebrateandhumananatomy/