Dalian horse + Mesocyon locomotion + Plumadraco + Kank + Labrujasuchus + turtle origins + Ambystoma quetzalcoatli + more free pdfs

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Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:

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Michelle C. Langley (2026)

The Bow-and-Arrow along the Southern Arc and Through to Oceania: Earliest Appearances, Archaeological Challenges, and Future Opportunities

Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 33: 56

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-026-09794-0

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10816-026-09794-0

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Paul P. Stewens (2026)

The legal classification of hominin fossils: lessons from the Broken Hill skul.

International Journal of Heritage Studies (advance online publication)

https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2026.2673358

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/13527258.2026.2673358

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Laura Martín-Francés, Marina Martínez de Pinillos, María Martinón-Torres, Cecilia García-Campos, Louise Magne, Juan Luis Arsuaga, José María Bermúdez de Castro, Marie-Hélène Moncel, Benoît Bertrand & Amélie Vialet (2026)

Reassessment and new evidence of the dental remains from Payre site (France)

Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 18(6): 142

doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-026-02453-1

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-026-02453-1

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Soichiro Kusaka, Yuichiro Nishioka, Jun Kimura, Akira Iwase & Kazuki Morisaki (2026)

A refined chronology of the Naumann’s elephant (Palaeoloxodon naumanni) provides a new insight on factors of their extinction

Scientific Reports 16: 14657

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-50310-x

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-50310-x

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Kelsey N. Moreland, Sibylle Wolf, Dorothée G. Drucker, Arianna Weingarten, Ella Reiter, Maria A. Spyrou, Nicholas J. Conard & Cosimo Posth (2026)

Ancient DNA from the Upper Paleolithic mammoth ivory of Hohle Fels, Germany

Scientific Reports 16: 15181

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-46761-x

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-46761-x

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Alejandro Pérez-Ramos, Jaime Moulaye, Alberto Martín-Serra, Daryl P. Domning & Borja Figueirido

Virtual reconstruction and morphometric analysis of the vertebral column of the stem sirenian Pezosiren portelli (Tethytheria, Pan-Sirenia, Prorastomidae)

Journal of Mammalian Evolution (advance online publication)

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-026-09804-8

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10914-026-09804-8

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Shiwen Song, Bo Xiao, Fancheng Xing, Lin Qi, Lei Bao, Yamei Hou, Yuan Zhang, Mingmin Zheng, Jiaming Hu, Lingyu Zheng, Dongqi Yu, Tao Deng, Michael Hofreiter, Xulong Lai, Junxia Yuan & Guilian Sheng (2026)

Extinct Dalian horse as a genetic bridge between Late Pleistocene North American and Eurasian equids

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 293(2071): 20260314 .

doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2026.0314

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/293/2071/20260314/481895/Extinct-Dalian-horse-as-a-genetic-bridge-between

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Souzanna Siarabi, Dimitris S. Kostopoulos, Sara G. Arranz, Josep M. Robles & David M. Alba

Craniodental morphology of Propotamochoerus palaeochoerus (Suidae: Suinae) from the late Miocene of els Hostalets de Pierola (Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula): systematic and biochronological implications

Journal of Mammalian Evolution 33: 27

doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-026-09818-2

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10914-026-09818-2

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Ayako Kawatani, Yoshikazu Hasegawa & Toshiyuki Kimura (2026)

New fossil squalodelphinid from the lower Miocene Tomikusa Group, Nagano Prefecture, Japan

Fossils 119: 5-11 (in Japanese)

DOI https://doi.org/10.14825/kaseki.119.0_5

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/kaseki/119/0/119_5/_article/-char/en

Free pdf:

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/kaseki/119/0/119_5/_pdf/-char/en

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Anne E. Kort, Jennifer Cavin & Xiaoming Wang (2026)

Postcrania and locomotor function of Mesocyon coryphaeus (Canidae, Carnivora) from the Arikareean of North America

Journal of Paleontology (advance online publication)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2026.10232

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-paleontology/article/postcrania-and-locomotor-function-of-mesocyon-coryphaeus-canidae-carnivora-from-the-arikareean-of-north-america/FFF5F9B567D89F33198C24A00E885FC0

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Deborah V. Espinosa-Martínez, César A. Ríos-Muñoz & Joaquín Arroyo-Cabrales (2026)

The genus Habromys: an untold biogeographic history

Therya 17(2): 295-306

doi: https://doi.org/10.12933/therya.2026.6269

https://therya.mastozoologiamexicana.com/index.php/THERYA/article/view/6269

Free pdf:

https://therya.mastozoologiamexicana.com/index.php/THERYA/article/view/6269/1670

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Erika Cuéllar Soto, Carola Cañón & Ulyses F. J. Pardiñas (2026)

Undervalued habitat or impoverished guild? Explaining the scarcity of living semiaquatic sigmodontine rodents (Cricetidae)

Therya 17(2): 327-342

doi: https://doi.org/10.12933/therya.2026.6274

https://therya.mastozoologiamexicana.com/index.php/THERYA/article/view/6274

Free pdf:

https://therya.mastozoologiamexicana.com/index.php/THERYA/article/view/6274/1675

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M. Ángel León‐Tapia, Elizabeth Arellano, Livia León‐Paniagua, Giovani Hernández‐Canchola & Lázaro Guevara (2026)

Understanding Muroidea (Rodentia) Species Richness: The Complementary Roles of Adaptive and Non‐Adaptive Diversification

Journal of Biogeography 53(5): e70249

doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.70249

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jbi.70249

Free pdf:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jbi.70249

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Norberto P. Giannini & Alan Cannell (2026)

The squirrel barrier concept and its bearing on the evolution of aerial mammals

BMC Ecology and Evolution (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-026-02532-w

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12862-026-02532-w

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Ricardo Melchor, Viktória Káposztás and Yaryna Tuzyak (2026)

Review of Tridactyl Avian Footprints (Ichnofamily Avipedidae) with Emphasis on Type Material from the Miocene of the Carpathians (Ukraine, Hungary and Romania)

Fossil Studies 4(2): 13

doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/fossils4020013

https://www.mdpi.com/2813-6284/4/2/13

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Gerald Mayr (2026)

An overview of the oldest and most comprehensive avifauna of the early Eocene British London Clay

Papers in Palaeontology 12(3): e70093

doi: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.70093

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.70093

Free pdf:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/spp2.70093

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Plumadraco bankoorum gen. et sp. nov.

Alexander D. Clark, Jingmai K. O’Connor, Xiaoli Wang, Yan Wang, Stephen Pruett-Jones, Xiangyu Zhang, Xing Wang, Xiaoting Zheng & Zhonghe Zhou (2026)

Hyperelongate ornamental tail feathers in a new early Cretaceous enantiornithine bird

PLoS One 21(5): e0347641.

doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0347641

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0347641

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Kank australis gen. et sp. nov.

Matías J. Motta, Alexis M. Aranciaga Rolando, Sebastián Rozadilla, Federico L. Agnolín, Federico Brissón Egli, Gerardo P. Álvarez Herrera, Nicolás R. Chimento, Gastón Lo Coco, Takanobu Tsuihiji, Makoto Manabe, Diego Pol & Fernando E. Novas (2026)

New unenlagiid from the Chorrillo Formation (Late Cretaceous, Maastrichtian), SW Patagonia, Argentina

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e2656456

doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2026.2656456

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2026.2656456

Free pdf: (view only for now)

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/02724634.2026.2656456

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Andrea Cau, Neil J. Gostling, Mauro B. S. Lacerda, Mario Falasca & Alessandro Paterna (2026)

Avian-like salt glands in Spinosauridae

Historical Biology (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2026.2669954

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2026.2669954

Free pdf:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/08912963.2026.2669954

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Jordan C. Mallon, David C. Evans, Yuguang Zhang, Hai Xing (2026)

Commentary: Additional observations on the skeleton of a juvenile Gryposaurus notabilis (Ornithischia: Hadrosauridae)

The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70234

https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70234

Free pdf:

https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.70234

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Donald M. Henderson (2026)

200 years of dinosaur discoveries –a visual portrayal of their geographic and historical origins.

PeerJ 14:e21351

doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.21351

https://peerj.com/articles/21351/

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Jair Israel Barrientos-Lara & Jesús Alvarado-Ortega (2026)

A marine geosaurine crocodylomorph from the Kimmeridgian Sabinal Formation of Oaxaca, southern Mexico

Alcheringa (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2026.2671704

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03115518.2026.2671704

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Labrujasuchus expectatus gen. et sp. nov.

Alan H. Turner, Ciara E. Kernan, Adam Laing, Adam C. Pritchard, Michelle R. Stocker, Randall B. Irmis, Nathan D. Smith, Sarah Werning & Sterling J. Nesbitt (2026)

A new shuvosaurid (Archosauria, Poposauroidea) from the Late Triassic (Norian) Hayden Quarry of New Mexico, U.S.A.

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e2618182

doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2026.2618182

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2026.2618182

Free pdf:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/02724634.2026.2618182

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Adam D. Marsh, Alaska N. Schubul, Ava S. Dalton, Helen E. Burch, and Deborah E. Wagner (2026)

Postosuchus Supernova: A New Specimen of Postosuchus Cf. P. Kirkpatricki

Lithodendron 3: 101-120

doi: https://doi.org/10.69575/SBEP1712

https://petrifiedforestfieldinstitute.org/lithodendron/lithodendron/volume-3/postosuchus-supernova-a-new-specimen-of-postosuchus-cf-p-kirkpatricki/

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Xavier A. Jenkins, Brandon R. Peecook, Jonah N. Choiniere, Valentin Buffa, Julien Benoit, Claire Browning, Vincent Fernandez, Kathleen Dollman, Timothy W. Gomes, Gary A. McGaughey, Cy J. Marchant, Adam J. Fitch, Michael O. Day, Serjoscha W. Evers & Roger B.J. Benson (2026)

The phylogenetic origin of turtles

Current Biology (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2026.04.070

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(26)00574-9

Free pdf:

https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0960-9822%2826%2900574-9

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Edwin-Alberto Cadena, Rodolfo M. Salas-Gismondi, Camila A. Zamora-Vega, John J. Flynn, Pierre-Olivier Antoine, Patrice Baby & Adán Pérez-García (2026)

New fossil material of Chelus (Testudines: Chelidae) from the Middle Miocene of Peru

Palaeoworld 201135

doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2026.201135

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1871174X26000703

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Alberto Cabezuelo-Hernández, Carlos de Miguel Chaves, Francisco Ortega & Adán Pérez-García (2026)

New insights into the postcranial anatomy of Paludidraco multidentatus (Sauropterygia, Simosauridae), from the Late Triassic of Spain.

Fossil Record 29(1): 269-298

doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.29.189975

https://fr.pensoft.net/article/189975/list/9/

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Ren Hirayama (2025)

Fossil Reptiles from the Kuji Group (Late Cretaceous) of Iwate Prefecture, Japan

Journal of Fossil Research 58(1-2): 28-31 (in Japanese)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.60339/kasekiken.58.1-2_28

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/kasekiken/58/1-2/58_28/_article/-char/en

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Jorge A. Herrera-Flores and María Patricia Velasco-de León (2026)

Ambystoma quetzalcoatli sp. nov., a new species of fossil axolotl (Caudata: Ambystomatidae) from the Pliocene of Santa María Amajac, Hidalgo, Mexico.

Palaeontologia Electronica, 29(2):a19.

doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/1644

https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2026/5636-ambystoma-quetzalcoatli-a-fossil-axolotl-from-mexico

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Kim Julia Kean, Celeste M. Pérez-Ben, Marylène Danto & Nadia B. Fröbisch (2026)

What is driving the differential loss of skull bones throughout tetrapod evolution? Evidence from Temnospondyli

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 293(2071): 20253276 .

doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.3276

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/293/2071/20253276/481898/What-is-driving-the-differential-loss-of-skull

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Wen Kang, Ji-Feng Fei, Cong Liang, Günter Wagner & Qi Zhou (2026)

Evolution of limb and digit identity genes since the tetrapod ancestor

Nature Communications (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-73821-7

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41467-026-73821-7

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Victoria E. McCoy, Jason D. Pardo, Arjan Mann, Andrew Young, René Lauer, Bruce Lauer & Tetsuto Miyashita (2026)

Stepwise loss of complexity in hagfish eyes prior to deep sea colonization

Biology Letters 22 (5): 20260127 .

doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2026.0127

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article/22/5/20260127/481911/Stepwise-loss-of-complexity-in-hagfish-eyes-prior

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Simon Beaufils, Romain Vullo, Damien Gendry, Laurent Picot & Lionel Cavin (2026)

Composition and paleoecology of the mid-Jurassic bony fish assemblage of the Vaches Noires cliffs (Normandy, France)

PLoS One 21(5): e0344519

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0344519

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0344519

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Tetsuji NAKABO (2026)

Classification and Phylogeny of Fossil and Recent Fishes

Journal of Geography (Chigaku Zasshi) 135(2): 109-129 (in Japanese)

DOI https://doi.org/10.5026/jgeography.135.109

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jgeography/135/2/135_135.109/_article/-char/en

Free pdf:

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jgeography/135/2/135_135.109/_pdf/-char/en

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Miquel De Renzi & Eduardo Mayoral (2026)

The world of helical fossil and recent burrows: between geometry and engineering

Journal of Iberian Geology (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41513-026-00336-x

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41513-026-00336-x

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Kwangchul Jang, Germain Bayon, Yeongcheol Han, Young Jin Joe, Sang-Yoon Jun, Yeong Ju Son, Jens Matthiessen, Matt O’Regan, Christoph Vogt, Ruediger Stein, Tatsuhiko Sakamoto, Eunji Byun, Kyung Sik Woo & Seung-Il Nam (2026)

The potential role of Arctic seaway expansion in driving the Mid-Pleistocene Transition

Communications Earth & Environment 7(1): 449

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-026-03570-4

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-026-03570-4

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Janet E. Burke, Keyi Cheng, Andy Ridgwell, Donald E. Penman & Dalton S. Hardisty (2026)

Miocene ocean circulation shifted expansive oxygen deficient zones to the Atlantic

Nature Communications (advance online publication)

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-73732-7

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-73732-7

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Ze Tao, Daomao Lin, Tiago M. Alves, Yahao Huang, Zhongrui Wu & Yukun Liu (2026)

Cenozoic igneous activity in northern China as a mechanism for Late Oligocene climate warming

Scientific Reports (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-54351-0

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-54351-0

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Xiaoqi Fang, Kenji Izumi, Shijun Jiang, Jiang Zhu, Tao Su & Shufeng Li (2026)

Terrestrial carbon stock vulnerability during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum

Communications Earth & Environment (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-026-03682-x

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-026-03682-x

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Peixin Zhang, Minfang Yang, Jing Lu, Zhongfeng Jiang, Kai Zhou, Xiaotao Xu, Yanghang Guo, Huijuan Chen, Longyi Shao, Manfredo Capriolo & Jason Hilton (2026)

Two-step intensification of continental chemical weathering during the Triassic–Jurassic transition linked to CAMP emplacement

Global and Planetary Change 263: 105541

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2026.105541

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921818126002626

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Joseane Ferraz & José Ricardo I. Ribeiro (2026)

Quantitative patterns of vegetative versus reproductive fossil preservation in Permian palaeoflorae: a meta-analysis and network approach

Brazilian Journal of Botany 49: 31

doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40415-026-01155-1

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40415-026-01155-1

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Roberto Bartali, Jaime Urrutia-Fucugauchi, Jose Ramon Torres-Hernandez, Ligia Perez-Cruz & Rosa Lina Tovar-Tovar (2026)

Unraveling the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary event across the Gulf of Mexico—High-resolution Rayon reef section, Valles-San Luis Potosi platform, Mexico

PLOS ONE 21(4): e0345692

doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0345692

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0345692

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Rui Ying, Fanny M. Monteiro, James D. Witts & Daniela N. Schmidt (2026)

Darkness and body size shaped end-Cretaceous marine extinction patterns

Nature (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10541-4

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10541-4

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Penny Barton, Gail Christeson, Sean Gulick, Joanna Morgan, Mario Rebolledo-Vieyra, Jaime Urrutia-Fucugauchi & Michael Warner (2026)

Seismic travel-time tomography under the peak ring of the Chicxulub impact crater Open Access