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Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:

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Tesla A. Monson, Andrew P. Weitz and Marianne F. Brasil (2026)

The Evolution of Brain and Body Size in Genus Homo

Humans 6(2): 12

doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/humans6020012

https://www.mdpi.com/2673-9461/6/2/12

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Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser, Svenja Böll, Antje Griesch, Lutz Kindler & Wil Roebroeks (2026)

Shell game: Neanderthal use of the European pond turtle (Emys orbicularis) in the Last Interglacial landscape of Neumark-Nord (Germany)

Scientific Reports 16: 8628

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-42113-x

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-42113-x

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Manuel Will, Christian Sommer, Gunther H. D. Möller, Greg A. Botha, Matthias A. Blessing, Lawrence Msimanga, Aron Mazel, Aurore Val, Flavia Venditti & Svenja Riedesel (2026)

Specialised and persistent raw material procurement by humans in the Middle Pleistocene

Nature Communications 17: 2702

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-70783-8

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-70783-8

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Ivo Verheijen, Gianpiero Di Maida, Gabriele Russo & Thomas Terberger (2026)

Faunal exploitation at the elephant hunting site of Lehringen, Germany, 125,000 years ago

Scientific Reports 16: 9836

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-42538-4

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-42538-4

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Robin Dennell, Masami Izuho & Linda Hurcombe (2026)

Life and death in Upper Palaeolithic Mongolia: drought, dzuds and animal fat

Quaternary Environments and Humans 100103

doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qeh.2026.100103

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950236526000095

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Jennifer C. French, Somaye Khaksar, Agustín Fuentes & Marc Kissel (2026)

The origins and development of mobile containers: Biocultural perspectives on Pleistocene containment

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 82: 101769

doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2026.101769

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027841652600022X

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Adolfo Pacheco-Castro, Oscar Carranza-Castañeda & Xiaoming Wang (2026)

First record of Sigmodon minor (Rodentia) in the early Blancan of central Mexico: Asymmetrical dispersal from the Great Plains and paleoecology inferences.

PLoS One 21(4): e0346879

doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0346879

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0346879

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Moritz Dirnberger, Pablo Peláez-Campomanes, Tiago R. Simões & Raquel López-Antoñanzas (2026)

Total-evidence phylogeny reveals recent crown group radiation and biogeographical history of hamsters

BMC Biology (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-026-02581-z

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12915-026-02581-z

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Mahym Amanova, Dorothée G. Drucker & Federica Fontana (2026)

Insights into Red Deer Ecology during the Late Epigravettian: New isotopic evidence from Riparo Tagliente (Italian Prealps)

Journal of Quaternary Science (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.70069

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jqs.70069

Free pdf:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jqs.70069

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Eduard Cabasés Bru, Raquel Moya-Costa, John R. Wible, Stephen L. Brusatte & Ornella C. Bertrand (2026)

Virtual brain endocasts of the palaeanodont Metacheiromys marshi and the neurosensory evolution of early Pholidotamorpha

Journal of Anatomy (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.70142

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.70142

Free pdf:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joa.70142

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Julien Benoit, Vincent Fernandez & Jennifer Botha (2026)

The first non-mammalian synapsid embryo from the Triassic of South Africa.

PLoS One 21(4): e0345016.

doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0345016

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0345016

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Colin Boisvert, Jack Perkins, Cassius Morrison, Samuel J. L. Gascoigne, Thomas R. Holtz & Brian Curtice (2026)

Obligate faunivorous megatheropod size class patterns across the Jurassic-Cretaceous Periods.

PeerJ 14: e21007

doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.21007

https://peerj.com/articles/21007/

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LI Ang, JIANG Shun-Xing, QIU Rui & WANG Xiao-Lin (2026)

An isolated theropod tooth from the Lower Cretaceous Lianmuqin Formation of Wuerho, Xinjiang, China

Vertebrata Palasiatica (advance online publication)

DOI: 10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.260409

https://www.vertpala.ac.cn/EN/10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.260409

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WANG Qiang, DU Yan-Li, HUANG Zhi-Qing, YAN Cheng-Wen, JIANG An-Chun, ZHU Xu-Feng, FANG Kai-Yong & YANG Xiao-Li (2026)

First egg fossil record (Elongatoolithus elongatus) from the Dengta Basin of Heyuan, Guangdong

Vertebrata Palasiatica (advance online publication)

DOI: 10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.260407.

https://www.vertpala.ac.cn/EN/10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.260407

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André Saleiro, Emanuel Tschopp, Alexander Daasch, Thomas M. Kaiser, Ria Wiesinger & Daniela E. Winkler (2026)

Acquisition of and quality assessment in a dataset for dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) of sauropod teeth

Historical Biology (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2026.2627437

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2026.2627437

Free pdf:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/08912963.2026.2627437

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Matthew C. Herne, Joseph J. Bevitt, Luke Milan, Scott A. Hocknull, Alan M. Tait, Charlotte M. Allen, Andrew C. Rozefelds, Ralph E. Molnar, Vera Weisbecker & Phil R. Bell (2026)

Cranial anatomy, palaeoneurology, palaeobiology and stratigraphic age of the large-bodied ornithopod, Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Bartholomai and Molnar, 1981, from the mid-Cretaceous of Australia.

PeerJ 14: e20794

doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20794

https://peerj.com/articles/20794/

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Marissa C. H. Livius, Lawrence M. Witmer, Michael J. Ryan, Hillary C. Maddin & Jordan C. Mallon (2026)

Redescription of the Panoplosaurus mirus (Ankylosauria: Nodosauridae) holotype skull using computed tomography, and a new comparative scheme for panoplosaurin cranial ornamentation

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e2636589

doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2026.2636589

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2026.2636589

Free pdf:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/02724634.2026.2636589

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Jinseok Park, Minyoung Son, Woojoo Kim, Yuong-Nam Lee, Sang-im Lee & Piotr G. Jablonski (2026)

Display functions of dinosaur proto-wings before powered flight

bioRxiv 2026.04.05.714230 (preprint)

doi: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.04.05.714230

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.05.714230v1

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TONG Shi-Da, JIANG Shun-Xing, CHENG Xin & WANG Xiao-Lin (2026)

Two anurognathid pterosaur specimens from the Yanliao Biota and a new interpretation of anurognathid skulls

Vertebrata PalAsiatica (advance online publication)

DOI: 10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.260411

https://www.vertpala.ac.cn/EN/10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.260411

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David M. Unwin, Roy E. Smith, Samuel L.A. Cooper & David M. Martill (2026)

Reinterpretation of Bakiribu waridza from the Romualdo Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of Brazil: a fish not a pterosaur

Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 98(2): e20251374

doi: https://doi.org/10.1590/0001-3765202620251374

https://www.scielo.br/j/aabc/a/GnTpkJ4FFCthP9LYsvFhycC/abstract/?lang=en

Free pdf:

https://www.scielo.br/j/aabc/a/GnTpkJ4FFCthP9LYsvFhycC/?format=pdf&lang=en

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Yuehui Yan, Wenjin Zhao, Yanchao Luo, Hanxin Yu & Min Zhu (2026)

Morphology and phylogeny of Bothriolepis yunnanensis (Placodermi, Antiarcha) from the Middle Devonian of China.

Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 145: 535-551.

doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/sjp.145.179243

https://sjp.pensoft.net/article/179243/list/9/

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QIAO Tuo, LIU Cheng-Xi, CUI Xin-Dong & ZHU Min (2026)

Stepwise formation of autostyly in lungfishes revealed by comparative analysis of palatoquadrate#br#

Vertebrata Palasiatica (advance online publication)

DOI: 10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.260408

https://www.vertpala.ac.cn/EN/10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.260408

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Sinoceratodus fortunus gen. et sp. nov.

Bo Luo, Guang-Hui Xu, Ting-Cong Ren, Xin-Ying Ma, Qing-Dong Wang, Tuo Qiao, Feng-Ting Tan, Ying Tan & Guang-Biao Wei (2026)

A new lungfish (Ceratodontoidei, Dipnoi) from the Early Jurassic of Chongqing, China

Scientific Reports (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-48164-4

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-48164-4

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Femke A. van der Sterren & Jonathan J.W. Wallaard (2026)

Ranzania tenneyorum (Weems, 1985) and Mola pileata (Van Beneden, 1881) (Molidae, Tetraodontiformes): highly specialised fishes from the Breda and Oosterhout formations at Mill-Langenboom, the Netherlands

Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 105: e12621

doi: https://doi.org/10.70712/njg.v105.12621

https://njgjournal.nl/index.php/njg/article/view/12621

Free pdf:

https://njgjournal.nl/index.php/njg/article/view/12621/21053

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Dmitry P. Plax (2026)

On the findings of the Carboniferous ichthyofauna in the territory of Belarus

BarSU Herald 1(19): 69-75

ISSN 2310-0273

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/403552541_ON_THE_FINDINGS_OF_THE_CARBONIFEROUS_ICHTHYOFAUNA_IN_THE_TERRITORY_OF_BELARUS

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Tuyuria insolita Lebedev, gen. et sp. nov.

Oleg A. Lebedev, Wayne M. Itano, Christopher J. Duffin, and Alexander O. Ivanov (2026)

The earliest stem edestoid (Eugeneodontiformes, Chondrichthyes) from the Viséan (lower Carboniferous) of Tula Region, Central Russia, and a revision of Edestoidea

Canadian Journal of Zoology 104:1-24

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2025-0140

https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10.1139/cjz-2025-0140

Free pdf:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/403185149_The_earliest_stem_edestoid_Eugeneodontiformes_Chondrichthyes_from_the_Visean_lower_Carboniferous_of_Tula_Region_Central_Russia_and_a_revision_of_Edestoidea

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Melina Jobbins, Jorge Mondéjar Fernández, Paul Durkin, Ricardo L. Silva, and Kirstin S. Brink (2026)

Early vertebrate diversity of the Elm Point Formation of Manitoba, Canada, and evidence of fish faunal diversification in the Middle Devonian of North America

Canadian Journal of Zoology 104: 1–15

doi: https://doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2025-0113

https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10.1139/cjz-2025-0113

Free pdf:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/399999393_Early_vertebrate_diversity_of_the_Elm_Point_Formation_of_Manitoba_Canada_and_evidence_of_fish_faunal_diversification_in_the_Middle_Devonian_of_North_America

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Daniela Araya-Gamboa, César A. Laurito, Cristian Calvo & Ana L. Valerio (2026)

Evidence of shark-on-shark trophic interactions in the Miocene of Costa Rica, Southern Central America

Evidencia de interacciones tróficas entre tiburones en el Mioceno de Costa Rica, América Central Meridional

Revista Geológica de América Central 74: 1-12

doi: https://doi.org/10.15517/sz9r7m18

https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rgeologica/article/view/5644

https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rgeologica/article/view/5644/7350

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Werner W. Schwarzhans, Kai Ingemann Schnetler, Kent Albin Nielsen, Mogens Stentoft Nielsen & Henrik Madsen (2026)

Otoliths from the late Oligocene Brejning Formation of Denmark – a testimony of a deep, cool-water fish fauna.

Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 75: 73–133.

ISSN 2245-7070

doi: https://doi.org/10.37570/bgsd-2026-75-05

https://2dgf.dk/xpdf/bull75-73-133.pdf

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Yimeng Cui, Xiaoyang Lu, Peng Wei, Mengqi Shuai, Li Sun, Yaoqi Xie, Yanfang Xie, Ruijuan Dong, Leilei Shi, Stephen J Rossiter, Shixia Xu & Yang Liu (2026)

Comparative phenotypic analysis of rhodopsin supports stepwise evolution of dim-light vision in early vertebrates

Molecular Biology and Evolution, msag096

doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag096

https://academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-article/doi/10.1093/molbev/msag096/8650812

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Johnny Clavo Yamahuchi, Elizabeth Cook, Christopher J. Duffin, Peter A. Austen, Steven C. Sweetman, Pamela G. Gill, Claudia Hildebrandt, Tim Tomkinson & Michael J. Benton (2026)

Microvertebrates from the Cliff End Bone Bed (Wealden, Lower Cretaceous), East Sussex, UK

Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 101187

doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2026.101187

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016787826000271

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C. Henrik Woolley, Julia A. McIntosh, Roger M. H. Smith & Christian A. Sidor (2026)

First vertebrate assemblage from the middle member of the Fremouw Formation (Lower Triassic) of Antarctica

Antarctic Science (advance online publication)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102026100613

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antarctic-science/article/first-vertebrate-assemblage-from-the-middle-member-of-the-fremouw-formation-lower-triassic-of-antarctica/6D56287A8A9D30E5E1EA7CEA8A6F1E22

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Hugo Bal-García, Samantha Brown, Iván Rey-Rodríguez, Mikel Díaz-Rodríguez, Carlos Fernández-Rodríguez, Álvaro Ibáñez-Encinas, Arturo de Lombera-Hermida, Tania Mosquera-Castro, Xosé Pedro Rodríguez-Álvarez & Ramón Fábregas-Valcarce (2026)

Expanding the Faunal Interpretation of the Cova Eirós (NW Iberia) Middle Paleolithic–Early Upper Paleolithic Record With ZooMS

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.70107

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/oa.70107

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Hanneke Bos, Marjolein Gouw-Bouman, Nelleke van Asch, Jeroen Verhegge & Philippe Crombé (2026)

From lake to river. The Weichselian Lateglacial and early Holocene palaeoenvironmental development of the Moervaart region (northwestern Belgium): a synthesis on vegetation patterns, climate, abiotic landscape and human occupation

Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 105: e13472

doi: https://doi.org/10.70712/njg.v105.13472

https://njgjournal.nl/index.php/njg/article/view/13472

Free pdf:

https://njgjournal.nl/index.php/njg/article/view/13472/21033

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Luis Felipe Hinojosa, Francy Milena Carvajal, Mirta Quattrocchio, Damián A. Fernández and María Fernanda Pérez (2026)

Early Eocene Palynofloral Diversity and Nothofagus Niche Modeling Across Western Gondwana

Plants 15(7): 1122

doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/plants15071122

https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/15/7/1122

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