Urva fanchangensis + avian respiration + Huadanosaurus + Sinosauropteryx lingyuanensis + Darwinopterus camposi + Retymaijychampsa + Akkedops + more free pdfs
Ben Creisler
Ben Creisler
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Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:
Irene E. Smail, Amy L. Rector, Joshua R. Robinson & Kaye E. Reed (2025)
Pliocene climatic change and the origins of Homo at Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia
Annals of Human Biology 52(1): 2462255
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03014460.2025.2462255
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03014460.2025.2462255
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/03014460.2025.2462255
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Anna Degioanni, Sandrine Cabut, Silvana Condemi & Robin S. Smith (2025)
Climate change in Europe between 90 and 50 kyr BP and Neanderthal territorial habitability
PLoS ONE 20(2): e0308690
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0308690
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0308690
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Yuhai Gao, David D. Zhang, Haiwei Zhang, Shengda Zhang, Teng Li, Shimin Chen, Chengcai Luo & Hai Cheng (2025)
Prehistoric human hand and footprints in Quesang on the central Tibetan Plateau from the Bølling-Allerød Interstadial
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-025-02181-y
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-025-02181-y
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Eslem Ben Arous, James A. Blinkhorn, Sarah Elliott, Christopher A. Kiahtipes, Charles D. N’zi, Mark D. Bateman, Mathieu Duval, Patrick Roberts, Robert Patalano, Alexander F. Blackwood, Khady Niang, Eugénie Affoua Kouamé, Edith Lebato, Emily Hallett, Jacopo N. Cerasoni, Erin Scott, Jana Ilgner, Maria Jesús Alonso Escarza, Francois Yodé Guédé & Eleanor M. L. Scerri (2025)
Humans in Africa’s wet tropical forests 150 thousand years ago
Nature (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08613-y
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08613-y
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Eva-Mercè Fuentes, Monica V Avilez, Jeffery K Spear & Scott A Williams (2025)
Examining the relationship between pelvic shape and numbers of lumbar vertebrae in anthropoid primates.
Journal of Human Evolution 201: 103649
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2025.103649
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248425000028
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Mihir Trivedi, Kunal Arekar, Shivakumara Manu, Lukas F. K. Kuderna, Jeffrey Rogers, Kyle Kai-How Farh, Tomas Marques Bonet & Govindhaswamy Umapathy (2025)
Historical Demography and Species Distribution Models Shed Light on Speciation in Primates of Northeast India
Ecology and Evolution 15(2): e70968
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70968
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.70968
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ece3.70968
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Urva fanchangensis sp. nov.
Qigao Jiangzuo, Yuan Wang, Fazhi Wang, Peiran Li, Dingge Guo, Fan Xu, Jinyi Liu & Changzhu Jin (2025)
A new species of Urva (Herpestidae, Carnivora) from late Upper Pleistocene deposits of East Fissure-Fillings, Fanchang, Anhui Province of Eastern China
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e2453603
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2025.2453603
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2025.2453603
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/02724634.2025.2453603
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David C. Elzinga, Ryan Kulwicki, Samuel Iselin, Lee Spence & Alex Capaldi (2025)
Rapid evolution of prehistoric dogs from wolves by natural and sexual selection emerges from an agent-based model
Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 292(2040): 20242646
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.2646
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2024.2646
Free pdf:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rspb.2024.2646
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John R. Wible and Ornella C. Bertrand (2024)
Basicranial Anatomy of Leptictis haydeni Leidy, 1868 (Mammalia, Eutheria, Leptictidae)
Annals of Carnegie Museum 90(1): 1-36
doi: https://doi.org/10.2992/007.090.0101
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Margot D. Nelson, Olivier Lambert & Mark D. Uhen (2025)
Taxonomic revision of the family Squalodontidae (Cetacea, Odontoceti): emptying the wastebasket of fragmentary holotypes
Papers in Palaeontology 11(2): e70002
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.70002
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.70002
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/spp2.70002
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Megan Malherbe, Robyn Pickering, Deano Stynder & Martin Haeusler (2025)
The large mammal fossil fauna of the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa: a review
PeerJ 13:e18946
doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18946
https://peerj.com/articles/18946/
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Christopher Clarke & Sultan M. Alsharif (2025)
The Lost Large Mammals of Arabia
Journal of Biogeography (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.15086
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jbi.15086
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Kris Kovarovic & Kari Lintulaakso (2025)
Niche exploitation profiles predict the palaeoclimate of tropical mammal communities
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 112860
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.112860
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018225001452
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John-Paul Zonneveld (2025)
Ichnology of osteoderms of the pampathere Holmesina occidentalis from the Late Pleistocene / Early Holocene Tablazo Formation, Santa Elena Peninsula, Ecuador
Journal of South American Earth Sciences 105458
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2025.105458
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0895981125001208
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Jordi Alexis Garcia Marsà, Federico L. Agnolín, Delphine Angst and Eric Buffetaut (2025)
Paleohistological Analysis of “Terror Birds” (Phorusrhacidae, Brontornithidae): Paleobiological Inferences
Diversity 17(3): 153
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/d17030153
https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/17/3/153
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Gabriela Padilla-Jacobo, Tiberio Cesar Monterrubio-Rico, Horacio Cano-Camacho, María Guadalupe Zavala-Páramo (2025)
Origin and Diversification of the Genera Aratinga, Eupsittula, and Psittacara (Aves: Psittacidae)
Diversity 17(3): 155
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/d17030155
https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/17/3/155
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George E. Mustoe (2025)
Giant Bird Tracks (Family Gastornithidae) from the Paleogene Chuckanut Formation, Northwest Washington, USA, with a Review of Gastornis Distribution
Fossil Studies 3(1): 4
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/fossils3010004
https://www.mdpi.com/2813-6284/3/1/4
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A special issue, currently with free pdfs:
The biology of the avian respiratory system
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 380(1920)
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/2025/380/1920
Papers of special interest here:
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Jingmai K. O’Connor (2025)
Insights into the early evolution of modern avian physiology from fossilized soft tissues from the Mesozoic
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 380(1920): 20230426
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0426
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2023.0426
Free pdf:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rstb.2023.0426
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J. N. Maina (2025)
Structure and function of the avian respiratory system
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 380(1920): 20230435
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0435
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2023.0435
Free pdf:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rstb.2023.0435
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Emma R. Schachner and Andrew J. Moore (2025)
Unidirectional airflow, air sacs or the horizontal septum: what does it take to make a bird lung?
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 380(1920): 20230418
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0418
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2023.0418
Free pdf:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rstb.2023.0418
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Andrew J. Moore and Emma R. Schachner (2025)
When the lung invades: a review of avian postcranial skeletal pneumaticity
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 380(1920): 20230427
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0427
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2023.0427
Free pdf:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rstb.2023.0427
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Wilfried Klein, Vinícius Pereira Ribeiro and Ray Brasil Bueno de Souza (2025)
Avian air sacs and neopulmo: their evolution, form and function
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 380(1920): 20230421
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0421
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2023.0421
Free pdf:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rstb.2023.0421
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Maria Grace Burton, Juan Benito, Kirsty Mellor, Emily Smith, Elizabeth Martin-Silverstone, Patrick O'Connor and Daniel J. Field (2025)
The influence of soft tissue volume on estimates of skeletal pneumaticity: implications for fossil archosaurs
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 380(1920): 20230428
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0428
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2023.0428
Free pdf:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rstb.2023.0428
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Huadanosaurus sinensis gen. et sp. nov.
Sinosauropteryx lingyuanensis sp. nov.
Rui Qiu, Xiaolin Wang, Shunxing Jiang, Jin Meng & Zhonghe Zhou (2025)
Two new compsognathid-like theropods show diversified predation strategies in theropod dinosaurs
National Science Review, nwaf068
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwaf068
https://academic.oup.com/nsr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nsr/nwaf068/8030555
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Michael Kubi, Matthias Winfried Kleespies & Volker Wenzel (2025)
Dinosaurs as skeletons or lifelike replicas - effects on interest in extinct animals
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 13: 1557255
doi: 10.3389/fevo.2025.1557255
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/ecology-and-evolution/articles/10.3389/fevo.2025.1557255/full
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Joshua Hedge, Ryan T. Tucker, Peter J. Makovicky & Lindsay E. Zanno (2025)
Fossil eggshell diversity of the Mussentuchit Member, Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah
PLoS ONE 20(2): e0314689
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0314689
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0314689
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Maurício S. Garcia & Rodrigo T. Müller (2025)
Triassic pterosaur precursors of Brazil: catalog, evolutionary context, and a new hypothesis for phylogenetic relationships of Pterosauromorpha
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 97(Suppl. 1): e20240844
doi: https://doi.org/10.1590/0001-3765202520240844
https://www.scielo.br/j/aabc/a/NJjRz5dD9PymgdfwfdpSXdJ/?lang=en
Free pdf:
https://www.scielo.br/j/aabc/a/NJjRz5dD9PymgdfwfdpSXdJ/?format=pdf&lang=en
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Martín D. Ezcurra, Alexandra E. Fernandes, Marcos Roig & Maria B. Von Baczko (2025)
A revision of the pterodactyloid pterosaur Herbstosaurus pigmaeus Casamiquela, 1975 from the Late Jurassic of Argentina
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 97(Suppl. 1): e20241130
doi: https://doi.org/10.1590/0001-3765202520241130
https://www.scielo.br/j/aabc/a/qjdnzpCCRdxKRbHttzZKS7F/abstract/?lang=en
Free pdf:
https://www.scielo.br/j/aabc/a/qjdnzpCCRdxKRbHttzZKS7F/?format=pdf&lang=en
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Esaú Victor de Araújo, Jorge Cubo, Mariana Valéria de Araújo Sena, Renan Alfredo Machado Bantim, Luiz Carlos Weinschütz, Alexander Wilhelm Armin Kellner & Juliana Manso Sayão (2025)
Wing bone laminarity in Pterosaurs: insights into torsional adaptations for flight evolution
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 97(Suppl. 1): e20240540
doi: https://doi.org/10.1590/0001-3765202520240540
https://www.scielo.br/j/aabc/a/CytKXLqbgLtVSJQqJ4JfRmy/abstract/?lang=en
Free pdf:
https://www.scielo.br/j/aabc/a/CytKXLqbgLtVSJQqJ4JfRmy/?format=pdf&lang=en
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Darwinopterus camposi sp. nov.
Xin Cheng, Shunxing Jiang, Renan A.M. Bantim, Juliana M. Sayão, Antônio Á.F. Saraiva, Xi Meng, Alexander W.A. Kellner & Xiaolin Wang (2025)
A new species of Darwinopterus (Wukongopteridae, Pterosauria) from western Liaoning provides some new information on the ontogeny of this clade
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 97(Suppl. 1): e20240707
doi: https://doi.org/10.1590/0001-3765202520240707
https://www.scielo.br/j/aabc/a/fbbdmLJJcwNKwxdPrtHDpVc/abstract/?lang=en
Free pdf:
https://www.scielo.br/j/aabc/a/fbbdmLJJcwNKwxdPrtHDpVc/?format=pdf&lang=en
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Ryan C. Allen, Karen Chin, Mike Zawaski, Joseph J. Bevitt & Wayne Smiglewski (2025)
Determining whether a phosphatic concretion containing a Cretaceous juvenile crocodylian is a coprolite or a non-fecal concretion
Scientific Reports 15: 6436
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-90032-0
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-90032-0
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Alejandro Serrano-Martínez, Àngel H. Luján, Ángel García-Pérez & Josep Fortuny (2025)
New data on the inner skull cavities of Diplocynodon tormis (Crocodylia, Diplocynodontinae) from the Duero Basin (Iberian Peninsula, Spain).
Fossil Record 28(1): 67-77
doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.28.133743
https://fr.pensoft.net/article/133743/
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Retymaijychampsa beckerorum gen. et sp. nov.
Rodrigo T. Müller (2025)
A new proterochampsid archosauriform from the Middle–Upper Triassic of Southern Brazil
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 70(1): 7-16
doi:10.4202/app.01204.2024
https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app012042024.html
Free pdf:
https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app70/app012042024.pdf
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Andrej ČERŇANSKÝ, Georgios L. GEORGALIS, Rodolphe TABUCE & Dominique VIDALENC (2025)
The first snake from the lower Eocene (MP 10-11) of the Cos locality, Phosphorites du Quercy, France
in GEORGALIS G. L., ZAHER H. & LAURIN M. (eds), Snakes from the Cenozoic of Europe – towards a macroevolutionary and palaeobiogeographic synthesis
Comptes Rendus Palevol 24(5): 61-66
doi: https://doi.org/10.5852/cr-palevol2025v24a5
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/comptes-rendus-palevol/24/5
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Akkedops bremneri gen. et sp. nov.
Ethan Dean Mooney, Diane Scott & Robert Raphael Reisz (2025)
A new stem saurian reptile from the late Permian of South Africa and insights into saurian evolution
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 10
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00351-y
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13358-025-00351-y
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ZHAO Bi, ZOU Yarui, LI Jiangli, CHEN Gang, WAN Shan, YUAN Jinling & WU Kui (2025)
A new cranium material of the Early Triassic Hupehsuchus nanchangensis (Diapsida: Hupehsuchia) with a further study
Acta Geologica Sinica 99(2): 337-351 (in Chinese)
DOI: 10.19762/j.cnki.dizhixuebao.2023332
https://www.geojournals.cn/dzxbe/dzxbe/article/abstract/2023102
Free pdf:
https://www.geojournals.cn/dzxbe/dzxbe/article/pdf/2023102
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Silvio Renesto & Fabio Magnani (2025)
Tetrapod remains from the Ladinian (Middle Triassic) Sceltrich Beds of Monte San Giorgio UNESCO site
Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 131(1): 201-212
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54103/2039-4942/27087
https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/27087
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Grzegorz Sadlok (2025)
Tetrapod origins of small burrows from the Permian of Southwest Poland?
Lethaia 58(1): 1-15
doi: https://doi.org/10.18261/let.58.1.5
https://www.idunn.no/doi/10.18261/let.58.1.5
Free pdf:
https://www.idunn.no/doi/epdf/10.18261/let.58.1.5
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Jonathan W. Armbruster and Robert E. Jenkins (2025)
Evidence for a Greater Pleistocene Distribution for the Copper Redhorse in North America (Catostomidae: Moxostoma hubbsi)
Fishes 10(3): 101
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes10030101
https://www.mdpi.com/2410-3888/10/3/101
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Humberto Astibia, Javier Elorza & Francisco Javier Del Rosario (2025)
First record of the genus Cylindracanthus Leidy, 1856 (Osteichthyes, Actinopterygii) from the Eocene of the Pamplona Basin (Navarre, South Pyrenean area): systematics and taphonomy.
Spanish Journal of Palaeontology (advance online publication)
doi:. https://doi.org/10.7203/sjp.30456
https://turia.uv.es/index.php/sjpalaeontology/article/view/30456
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Neelima Sharma, Yara Haridy & Neil Shubin (2025)
Synovial joints were present in the common ancestor of jawed fish but lacking in jawless fish.
PLoS Biology 23(2): e3002990
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002990
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002990
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J. Gage Crump (2025)
Evolutionary origin of lubricated joints at the dawn of jawed vertebrates.
PLoS Biology 23(2): e3003044
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003044
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003044
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I. M. C. Sousa, C. Hillaire-Marcel, A. de Vernal, J. -C. Montero-Serrano & A. M. R. Aubry (2025)
Cold spells over Greenland during the mid-Pliocene Warm Period
Nature Communications 16: 1877
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56996-3
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-56996-3