Panthera pardus burgtonnae + Pterocetus diamantinae + Pelecanimimus neuroanatomy + Carinthiasuchus + Silescelida + more free pdfs
Ben Creisler
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Ben Creisler
I hope all are safe and well.
Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:
James Cole, Eleanor M.L. Scerri, Mateja Hajdinjak & Chris Stringer (2026)
Recent progress in studies of the last million years of human physical and behavioural evolution
Avancées récentes dans l’étude du dernier million d'années d’évolution physique et éthologique de l'espèce humaine
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.70141
https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9655.70141
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https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-9655.70141
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Meir Orbach, Omry Barzilai, Israel Hershkovitz, Ma'ayan Lev, Reuven Yeshurun (2026)
Shared foraging behaviors between hyenas and hominins in the Middle Paleolithic Levant: New evidence from Geula Cave, Israel
Journal of Quaternary Science (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.70086
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jqs.70086
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jqs.70086
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Sebastián Pérez-Díaz, Jesús González-Urquijo, José Antonio López-Sáez & Talía Lazuen (2026)
Neanderthals in dynamic Landscapes: Climate variability and human occupation from MIS 5-3 at Axlor cave (Northern Atlantic Iberia)
Quaternary Science Reviews 388: 110098
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2026.110098
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379126003070
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Patrick F. Reilly, Stephen Rong, Daniela Tejada-Martinez, Samantha L. Miller, Audrey Tjahjadi, Chang Liu, Jared Akers,Alysa Pomer, Margaret E. Prentice, D. Andrew Merriwether, Françoise R. Friedlaender, George Koki, Jonathan S. Friedlaender, Steven K. Reilly & Serena Tucci (2026)
Long-term isolation and archaic introgression shape functional genetic variation in Near Oceania
Science 392(6803): eadr6749
DOI:10.1126/science.adr6749
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adr6749
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https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/science.adr6749
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Helen K. Kurki & Cara M. Wall-Scheffler (2026)
The fossil record stays silent: Confusions and conundrums for hominin pelvis evolution
The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70242
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70242
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https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.70242
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Klara Komza, Bence Viola & Lauren Schroeder (2026)
Natural selection, genetic drift, and trait correlation shaped hominin midfoot evolution
Nature Communications (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-74174-x
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-74174-x
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Edwin J. de Jager, Emmanuel Gilissen, Laurent Risser, Céline Amiez, Caroline Fonta, Muriel Mescam & Amélie Beaudet (2026)
Atlas of cortical sulcal imprints on Pan endocasts
Journal of Anatomy (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.70185
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.70185
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joa.70185
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Darío Estraviz-López, Ana García-Vázquez, María Ríos & Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade (2026)
Pleistocene brown bears from Portugal: Morphometric trends, paleoenvironmental drivers and paleobiological inferences
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 113964
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2026.113964
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003101822600427X
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Panthera pardus burgtonnae ssp. nov.
Helmut Hemmer & Ralf-Dietrich Kahlke (2026)
Panthera pardus burgtonnae ssp. nov. (Mammalia, Carnivora, Felidae) from the Eemian of Burgtonna (Thuringia, Germany) – Late Pleistocene European leopards in a new perspective
Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-026-00702-8
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12549-026-00702-8
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Artur Chahud (2026)
The small Canidae from Cuvieri Cave (Quaternary, Pleistocene), Lagoa Santa, Eastern Brazil
Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 29(1): e20260573.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4072/rbp.2026.1.0573
https://sbpbrasil.org/publications/index.php/rbp/article/view/573
Free pdf:
https://sbpbrasil.org/publications/index.php/rbp/article/view/573/294
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Pterocetus diamantinae sp. nov
Xiaotong Peng, Peng Zhou, Xikun Song, Giovanni Bianucci, Mengran Du, Alberto Collareta, Zhaoming Gao, Tongtong Xie, Mingyao Teng, Daniel Leduc, Sadie Mills, Kaiwen Ta, Jiwei Li, Taoshu Wei, Shamik Dasgupta, Hao Liu, Yuan He, Wenjing Xu, Shuangquan Liu & Hanyu Zhang (2026)
A 5.3-million-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone
Nature (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10546-z
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10546-z
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Svitozar Davydenko, Tetiana Shevchenko, Igor Chernikov, and Pavel Gol’din
Middle Eocene archaeocete whales (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Pyvykha Mountain, Ukraine.
Palaeontologia Electronica 29(2): a25.
doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/1702
palaeo-electronica.org/content/2026/5896-archaeocetes-from-central-ukraine
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2026/5896-archaeocetes-from-central-ukraine
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William T. T. Taylor, John A. F. Wendt, Jonathan Dombrosky, Crystal C'Bearing, Mikayla Costales, Isaac A. Hart, Journey LeBeau, Adrian Johnson, Elena Lompe, Russell W. Graham, Chance Ward, Emily Lena Jones & Joshua H. Miller (2026)
Understanding Ancient Moose Populations in the Southern Rocky Mountains
Journal of Biogeography 53(6): e70279
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.70279
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/pala.70068
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Manuel Ruiz-García, Jessica Arias-Vásquez, Angie Luna,Armando Castellanos, Jorge Brito, Percy Colos Galindo, Yuri Oliver Ayala Sulca, François Catzeflis and Joseph Mark Shostell (2026)
Cryptic Genetic Diversity in Deer: The Evolution of the White-Tailed Deer (Cervidae, Artiodactyla) in the Neotropics
Diversity 18(6): 351
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/d18060351
https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/18/6/351
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Nicolas Wagner, Johannes Horn, Johannes von Kleist, Quentin Martinez, Gabriel S. Ferreira & Eli Amson (2026)
Sirenian pachyostosis revisited.
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 145: 687-702
doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/sjp.145.191327
https://sjp.pensoft.net/article/191327/list/9/
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Camille Bader, Ursula B. Göhlich & Alexandra Houssaye (2026)
Miniature giants: investigating limb long bone structure in dwarf proboscideans
Palaeontology 69(3): e70067
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.70067
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pala.70067
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/pala.70067
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Maria H. Zicos, Ian Barnes, Laurent Frantz & Selina Brace (2026)
Megaherbivore coprolite DNA: yields and comparison of three ancient DNA extraction protocols on coprolites of giant ground sloth Mylodon darwinii.
PeerJ 14:e21009
doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.21009
https://peerj.com/articles/21009/
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John R. Wible and Guillermo W. Rougier (2026)
Lamina Obturans, a Fundamental Component of the Mammalian Secondary Braincase Wall: Homology, Diversity, and Fate
Annals of Carnegie Museum 92(1): 35-55
doi: https://doi.org/10.2992/007.092.0102
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Austin J Ashbaugh, Heather A Jamniczky & Jessica M Theodor (2026)
You should look a gift ungulate in the mouth: Using 2D occlusal cheek tooth morphology to study the evolution of molarization in ungulates
Integrative Organismal Biology, obag025,
https://doi.org/10.1093/iob/obag025
https://academic.oup.com/iob/advance-article/doi/10.1093/iob/obag025/8698484
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Michel Laurin, Gilles Didier, Sylvain Richoz, Matteo Montagna and Evelyn Kustatscher (2026)
Kungurian extinctions in eupelycosaurs: a press–pulse event?
Paleobiology (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2026.10102
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Martin E. Farina, M. Gabriela Mángano, Luis A. Buatois, Claudia A. Marsicano & Verónica Krapovickas
Macroevolutionary trends of avian ichnodisparity in Gondwana
Scientific Reports (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-56695-z
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41598-026-56695-z
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Darren K. Griffin, Rebecca E. O’Connor, Luciano C. Pozzobon, Worapong Singchat, Kornsorn Srikulnath, Denis M. Larkin, Rafael Kretschmer & Michael N. Romanov (2026)
Chromosome Evolution in Birds: Molecular Cytogenetics, Comparative Genomics and Whole Genome Assemblies
Encyclopedia 6(6): 130
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/encyclopedia6060130
https://www.mdpi.com/2673-8392/6/6/130
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Lauren N. Wilson, Jacob D. Gardner, John P. Wilson, Alex Farnsworth, Paul Valdes, Zackary R. Perry, Patrick S. Druckenmiller, Gregory M. Erickson & Chris L. Organ (2026)
Body size evolution through shifting climatic conditions in Mesozoic dinosaurs
Palaeontology 69(3): e70068
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.70068
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pala.70068
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/pala.70068
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Xairo Calvo-Pérez & Elena Cuesta (2026)
Inside the head of Pelecanimimus polyodon (Ornithomimosauria, Dinosauria): Occipital palaeoneuroanatomy of the early branching ornithomimosaur from Las Hoyas fossil site (Early Cretaceous, Cuenca, Spain).
Spanish Journal of Palaeontology (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7203/sjp.33856
https://turia.uv.es/index.php/sjpalaeontology/en/article/view/33856
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https://turia.uv.es/index.php/sjpalaeontology/en/article/view/33856/35232
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Hugo Valdéz, Matías Fernández, Virginia Zurriaguz, Federico Gianechini, Leonardo S. Filippi and Ariel H. Méndez Ariel (2026)
Pneumatic structures in a cervical vertebra of Viavenator exxoni (Dinosauria: Theropoda)
Ameghiniana (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.5710/AMGH.04.05.2026.3690
https://www.ameghiniana.org.ar/index.php/ameghiniana/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/169
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Noelia V. Cardozo, Mariela S. Fernández, Gabriel A. Casal, Bruno N. Alvarez, Julieta L. Caglianone, Lara J. Campano, Marcelo Luna and Lucio M. Ibiricu (2026)
First record of Faveoloolithidae eggshells from the late Maastrichtian of the Lago Colhué Huapi Formation, Golfo San Jorge Basin, Argentina
Ameghiniana (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.5710/AMGH.22.04.2026.3661
https://www.ameghiniana.org.ar/index.php/ameghiniana/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/168
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Abel Guihou, Baptiste Suchéras-Marx, Thierry Tortosa, Pierre Deschamps & Yves Dutour (2026)
Possibilities, challenges, and limitations of dinosaur eggshells LA-ICP-MS U–Pb dating based on samples from Provence (Upper Cretaceous, France)
Comptes Rendus Géoscience 358: 353-368
DOI: 10.5802/crgeos.338
https://comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/geoscience/articles/10.5802/crgeos.338/
Free pdf:
https://comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/geoscience/item/10.5802/crgeos.338.pdf
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Carinthiasuchus kandutschi gen. et sp. nov.
Fabio Marco Dalla Vecchia & Andrea Cau (2026)
Carinthiasuchus kandutschi, a new archosaur (Reptilia: Diapsida) from the Triassic of Austria
Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 132(2): 409-430
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54103/2039-4942/29890
https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/29890
Free pdf:
https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/29890/26527
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Silescelida acristata gen. et sp. nov.
Maurício S. Garcia, Gabriela M. Cerqueira, Francesco Battista, Marco B. de Andrade & Rodrigo T. Müller (2026)
A new eucrocopodan archosauriform from the Middle Triassic of southern Brazil and the phylogeny of Euparkeriidae
Scientific Reports 16: 16585
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-53740-9
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41598-026-53740-9
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-53740-9
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Rafael Terras, Jaqueline Borger, Manuelle O. P. Almeida, Silvia Bettin, Owen A. Higgins, Giulia Marciani, Stefano Benazzi, Rodrigo T. Müller, Leonardo Kerber & Mirian Carbonera (2026)
Inferred presence of extraoral tissues in Triassic archosauromorphs and the evolutionary implications for the clade Sauropsida
Palaeontology 69(3): e70066
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.70066
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pala.70066
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/pala.70066
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Marshall Brace, Michael Cramberg, Lauren Gray, Kaitlyn Pyatt, Luanne Xiao & Bruce Young (2026)
The crook in the caudals: Kinematics of defensive tail swipes in the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis).
Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology 14.
https://doi.org/10.18435/vamp29414
https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/vamp/index.php/VAMP/article/view/29414
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Giles D. Sukkert, Ilaria Paparella, Michael R. Doschak, Aaron R. H. LeBlanc &, Michael W. Caldwell (2026)
A description of dental microanatomy and implantation geometry in Chamaeleonidae
Journal of Anatomy (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.70194
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.70194
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joa.70194
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Murilo Andrade-Silva & Heitor Francischini (2026)
Reassessing putative lacertoid tracks from the Lower Cretaceous Botucatu Formation (Brazil): ichnotaxonomic ambiguities in an aeolian palaeodesert
Journal of South American Earth Sciences 181: 106154
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2026.106154
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0895981126002063
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Loredana Macaluso, Olivier Jansen, Xavier Valentin, Jules D. Walter, Olga Otero, Romain Amiot & Geraldine Garcia (2026)
New fossil evidence from the Late Cretaceous of Europe (southern France) deepens the origin of Salamandridae (Urodela) and refines the biogeography of the family
Scientific Reports 16: 16567
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-44690-3
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41598-026-44690-3
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Luke E. Nelson, Alison M. Murray & Donald B. Brinkman (2026)
Description of large, well-preserved Enchodus specimens from the Bearpaw Formation of Alberta, Canada
The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70248
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70248
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https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.70248
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Luis Fernando da Silva Rodrigues-Filho, Richard Klein Castro Silva, Eduardo Lopes de Lima, Raquel Sicca-Ramirez, Getúlio Rincon, Jorge Luiz Silva Nunes, Iracilda Sampaio & João Braullio de Luna Sales (2026)
Phylogeny of the Electric Rays of the Family Narcinidae (Gill, 1862): Systematic Review and Evidence of the Dispersal Routes to America
Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 36(6): e70389
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.70389
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aqc.70389
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/aqc.70389
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Guilherme Augusto Rodrigues, Jhonny Nonato Da Silva, Max Cardoso Langer and Jonathas S. Bittencourt (2026)
Unusual alteration of fish bones in the Lower Cretaceous lacustrine palaeoenvironment of the Sanfranciscana Basin, Brazil
Lethaia 60(2): 1--16
doi: https://doi.org/10.18261/let.60.2.1
https://www.scup.com/doi/10.18261/let.60.2.1
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https://www.scup.com/doi/epdf/10.18261/let.60.2.1
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D. Rex Mitchell, Kate Trinajstic, John A. Long, Austin N. Fitzpatrick, Joshua Bland & Alice M. Clement (2026)
Hard-object feeding adaptations infer relative predator-prey size relationships in Devonian placoderms
Scientific Reports (advance online publication)
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-57261-3
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-57261-3
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Joseph J. Bevitt (2026)
Neutron Tomography and the Virtual World of Palaeontology
In: Craft, A.E., Bilheux, H.Z. (eds) Proceedings of the 12th World Conference on Neutron Radiography. WCNR 2024. Springer Proceedings in Physics 348: 259–267
Springer, Cham.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-15003-5_30
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-032-15003-5_30
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Tyler J. Murchie, Scott L. Cocker, Sina Baleka, Nicola Alexandra Vogel, Libby Natola, Emil Karpinski, Diana Tirlea, McIntyre A. Barrera, Danielle M. Grant, Evan Morien, George S. Long, Linda Y. Rutledge, Grant D. Zazula, Britta J. Jensen, Duane G. Froese & Hendrik N. Poinar (2026)
Ground squirrel coprolites preserve complex archives of ancient environmental DNA over 700,000 years
Nature Communications 17: 4868
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-72977-6
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41467-026-72977-6
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Hiroki Yasuda, Madeleine R Inglis, Yosuke Yamamoto, Per Henningsson, Toshiyuki Nakata & Richard J Bomphrey (2026)
Span efficiency of flying animals
Integrative and Comparative Biology, icag077
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icag077
https://academic.oup.com/icb/advance-article/doi/10.1093/icb/icag077/8705449
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Ruolin Wu, Sandra Álvarez-Carretero, Yue Tong, Shan Wan, Harald Schneider, James Clark, Davide Pisani, Daniele Silvestro & Philip C. J. Donoghue (2026)
Integrated analysis of fossils and molecular divergence time estimates a latest Jurassic origin of angiosperms
Nature Plants (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-026-02311-x
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-026-02311-x
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Zhuo Feng (2026)
Mass extinctions and land plant evolution
Current Biology 36(11): R511-R516
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2026.01.037
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098222600076X
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(26)00076-X
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https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(26)00076-X.pdf
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Kunio Kaiho, Jeroen E. Sonke, Stephen E. Grasby & Li Tian (2026)
Coupled Hg isotope dynamics reveal eruption pulses across the Permian–Triassic mass extinction
Nature Communications (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-74313-4
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-74313-4
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