Homo erectus + Mesokentriodon + Strigops insulaborealis + elasmosaurid blubber + Megalichthys + more free pdfs
Ben Creisler
Ben Creisler
I hope all are well.
Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:
Hua Tu, Xiaobo Feng, Lan Luo, Zhongping Lai, Darryl Granger, Christopher Bae & Guanjun Shen (2026)
The oldest in situ Homo erectus crania in eastern Asia: The Yunxian site dates to ~1.77 Ma.
Science Advances 12(8): eady2270
doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ady2270
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ady2270
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Carlos A. Palancar, Markus Bastir, Daniel García-Martínez, Antonio García-Tabernero & Antonio Rosas (2026)
The axis (C2) from El Sidrón and its implications for Neanderthal upper cervical spine form
Journal of Human Evolution 213: 103816
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2026.103816
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248426000102
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Daniel García-Martínez, Paula Sanz-Henche, Inés Zapico, Luis Felipe Clemente, Maria Luisa Hernáez, Luis Ríos, Mar Casquero, Candelas Buenestado Ruíz, Darío Fidalgo, Sara Díaz-Pérez, Isidoro Campaña Lozano, Lucía Bermejo, Tomás Torres-Medina & Carlos A. Palancar (2026)
Sex assessment in a hominin upper second molar (RV’23-350) from the Ruidera (Spain) Middle Pleistocene paleoanthropological site: a proteome-based analysis of the amelogenin
Quaternary International 760: 110182
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2026.110182
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618226000686
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Anne Delagnes, Pascal Bertran, Brad Gravina, Frédéric Santos, Océane Spinelli Sanchez, Aline Galland, Michel Brenet, Haregwin Belete Hailu, Bisrat Gebreegziabher Araya, Fikeru Mekonenn Sissay, Misganaw Gebremichael Woldetsadik & Jean-Renaud Boisserie (2026)
A regional-scale mobility model for the early hominin occupation of the Lower Omo Valley (Ethiopia)
Scientific Reports (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-39972-9
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-39972-9
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Bruce Winterhalder & Eugène Morin (2026)
Endurance pursuit hunting among recent foragers and its relevance for hominin locomotor evolution
Journal of Human Evolution 212: 103807
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2026.103807
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248426000011
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Severine LD Toussaint, Dionisios Youlatos & John A Nyakatura (2026)
Kinematics and morphological correlates of descent strategies in arboreal mammals suggest early upright postures in euprimates
eLife 14: RP108268
doi: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.108268.3
https://elifesciences.org/articles/108268
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Thomas M B Kirkwood , Susanne Shultz , Mary T Silcox , Julia A Schwab , Stephanie M Palmer , James P Rule , Katrina E Jones (2026)
The land-to-water transition impacts brain shape in caniform carnivorans
Evolution qpag024
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpag024
https://academic.oup.com/evolut/advance-article/doi/10.1093/evolut/qpag024/8488596
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Mesokentriodon protohumboldti gen. et sp. nov.
Olivier LAMBERT, Maëlle OBERLIN, Christian de MUIZON, Alberto COLLARETA, Mario URBINA & Giovanni BIANUCCI (2026)
LAMBERT O., OBERLIN M., MUIZON C. de, COLLARETA A., URBINA M. & BIANUCCI G. 2026. —
A new kentriodontid dolphin (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Delphinida) from the Middle Miocene of the southeastern Pacific.
Geodiversitas 48 (3): 25-50
doi: https://doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2026v48a3
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/geodiversitas/48/3
Free pdf:
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/hd/geodiversitas2026v48a3-pdfa.pdf
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Iván Ramírez-Pedraza, Jordi Agustí & Pedro Piñero (2026)
Dental wear analysis of early Pleistocene ungulates from Quibas (Murcia, Spain): A comparative perspective with other Iberian sites
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 689: 113649
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2026.113649
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018226001124
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ZHANG Li-Min, CHANG Mei-Jing, LU Dan, GONG Hao, QIN Chao, GAO Feng, PAN Gao-Yuan, LI Gang, DENG Tao, SHI Jing-Song, NI Xi-Jun & LI Qiang (2026)
Early Pleistocene mammals from Yeka locality in Shangri-La, northwestern Yunnan
Vertebrata Palasiatica (advance online publication)
DOI: 10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.260210
https://www.vertpala.ac.cn/EN/10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.260210
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Salvador Herrando-Pérez, Kieren J. Mitchell, John R. Southon, Chris S. M. Turney & Thomas W. Stafford Jr. (2026)
A dataset of radiocarbon dates from Holarctic mammal collagen purified with high-quality chemistry
Scientific Data (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-026-06562-3
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-026-06562-3
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Lucrezia Gatti, Federico Lugli, Florian Rubach, Jennifer Leichliter, Giorgia Sciutto, Silvia Prati, Thomas Tütken & Alfredo Martínez-García (2026)
Deep-time preservation of amino acids in mammalian fossil tooth enamel
Communications Biology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-026-09716-6
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-026-09716-6
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Irina Podgorny (2023) [2026]
Nicola Descalzi and South American fossil mammals: a transatlantic history connecting Buenos Aires, London, and Mineralogical Museum of Turin University
Bollettino del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali di Torino 41(1-2): 1-22
doi: https://doi.org/10.4081/bmrsn.2023.16
https://www.bollettinomrsn.it/site/article/view/16
Free pdf:
https://www.bollettinomrsn.it/site/article/view/16/16
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Strigops insulaborealis sp. nov. (Strigopidae)
Porphyrio claytongreenei sp. nov. (Rallidae)
Trevor H. Worthy, R. Paul Scofield, Sneha Suresh, Simon J. Barker, Colin J. N. Wilson, Paul W. Williams & Joel A. Baker (2026)
The first Early Pleistocene (ca 1 Ma) fossil terrestrial vertebrate fauna from a cave in New Zealand reveals substantial avifaunal turnover in the last million years
Alcheringa (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2025.2605684
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03115518.2025.2605684
Free pdf:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/03115518.2025.2605684
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Taia C.A. Wyenberg-Henzler & John B. Scannella (2026)
Behavioral implications of an embedded tyrannosaurid tooth and associated tooth marks on an articulated skull of Edmontosaurus from the Hell Creek Formation, Montana.
PeerJ 14: e20796
doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20796
https://peerj.com/articles/20796/
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Abigail K. PARKER, Jean-Renaud BOISSERIE, Johannes MÜLLER, Christopher A. BROCHU & Jason J. HEAD (2026)
Body size histories of Shungura Formation reptiles in biotic and abiotic environmental context
in Boisserie J.-R., Mounier A., Redae B. E. & Schuster M. (eds), Glimpses of a Plio-Pleistocene African ecosystem: the Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia.
Comptes Rendus Palevol 25(2): 17-42
doi: https://doi.org/10.5852/cr-palevol2026v25a2
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/comptes-rendus-palevol/25/2
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Leonardo Barbini, Paul M. J. Burke, Ilaria Caddeo, Marco Romano & Philip D. Mannion (2026)
Endocranial anatomy of the earliest Cretaceous European neosuchian crocodyliform Pholidosaurus purbeckensis provides new evidence for the ecological evolution of Pholidosauridae
Journal of Anatomy (advance online pubication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.70125 D
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.70125
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joa.70125
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Miguel Marx, Robert-Zoltan Szasz & Johan Lindgren (2026)
CFD modelling of the thermo- and hydrodynamic capabilities of long-necked plesiosaurs (Sauropterygia, Elasmosauridae)
Technische Mechanik - European Journal of Engineering Mechanics 46(1): 43–54
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24352/UB.OVGU-2026-006
https://journals.ub.ovgu.de/index.php/techmech/article/view/2328
Free pdf:
https://journals.ub.ovgu.de/index.php/techmech/article/view/2328/2335
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Olivier Jansen, Géraldine Garcia, Olga Otero, Marc Augé, Bernard Gomez & Xavier Valentin (2026)
Freshwater amphibians and squamates from Villeveyrac (lower Campanian; Hérault, France): palaeodiversity, palaeoenvironment and implications for the Late Cretaceous palaeobiogeography of the European herpetofauna
Papers in Palaeontology 12(1): e70055
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.70055
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.70055
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/spp2.70055
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Francis M. Elliott (2026)
Recent research into the morphology of the megalichthyid Megalichthys pygmaeus Traquair, from the Midland Valley of Scotland
Scottish Journal of Geology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1144/sjg2025-005
https://www.lyellcollection.org/doi/full/10.1144/sjg2025-005
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Sebastian Stumpf, Julia Türtscher, Faviel A. López-Romero, Eduardo Villalobos-Segura, Arnaud Begat, Manuel Amadori, Richard P. Dearden, Bruce Lauer, René Lauer, Andreas Hecker & Jürgen Kriwet (2026)
Reappraisal of the extinct barbelthroat shark †Bavariscyllium and the nebulous origin of carcharhiniform galeomorphs
Communications Biology 9: 158
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-09272-5
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-09272-5
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YANG Tao, LI Yanyu, YANG Shuang & WU Feixiang (2026)
New Fossil Cyprinids from the Miocene of the Lunpola Basin, Northern Tibet, and their Implications
Acta Geologica Sinica 100(1): 1-12
DOI: 10.1111/1755-6724.70024
https://www.geojournals.cn/dzxbcn/dzxbcn/article/abstract/2026endzxb01001
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Gernot K. Englmaier, Malahat Dianat, Vladimir I. Romanov & Steven J. Weiss (2026)
Population structure and historical demography of a widespread salmonid fish (Thymallus baicalensis) shaped by Lake Baikal’s late Pleistocene outlet history
Journal of Great Lakes Research 102744
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2026.102744
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0380133026000043
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Vanja Simonsen, Aubrey Jane Roberts, Victoria Sjøholt Engelschiøn, Øyvind Hammer & Jørn H. Hurum (2026)
Digesting an ancient ecosystem: coprolites from the Grippia bonebed, Lower Triassic, Svalbard.
PeerJ 14: e20746
doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20746
https://peerj.com/articles/20746/
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Christopher D. Clowes, James S. Crampton, Kyle J. Bland, J. Ian Raine, Andrew F. Boyes, Hamish J. Campbell, Erica M. Crouch, Martin P. Crundwell, Neville Hudson, Elizabeth M. Kennedy, Donald A. B. MacFarlan, Hugh E. G. Morgans, Marcus D. Richards & Matthew W. Sagar (2026)
New Zealand Geological Timescale 2025
New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 69(1): e70012
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/jgo2.70012
https://rsnz.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jgo2.70012
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