Paleolithic dogs + Eurotamandua + Archaeopteryx + Xiangyunloong + Cryptarcus + Macropoma gombessae + more free pdfs
Ben Creisler
Ben Creisler
I hope all are safe and well.
Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:
Charoula M. Fotiadou, Jesper Borre Pedersen, Hélène Rougier, Mirjana Roksandic, Maria A. Spyrou, Kathrin Nägele, Ella Reiter, Hervé Bocherens, Andrew W. Kandel, Miriam N. Haidle, Timo P. Streicher, Nicholas J. Conard, Flora Schilt, Ricardo Miguel Godinho, Thorsten Uthmeier, Luc Doyon, Patrick Semal, Johannes Krause, Alvise Barbieri, Dušan Mihailović, Isabelle Crevecoeur, and Cosimo Posth (2026)
Archaeogenetic insights into the demographic history of Late Neanderthals
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123(13): e2520565123
doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2520565123
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2520565123
Free pdf:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2520565123
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K. Bretzke, S. Kim, S. A. Jasim, E. Yousif, F. Preusser, G. W. Preston, F. Pallottino & A. G. Parker (2026)
Evidence from Buhais Rockshelter for human settlement in Arabia between 60,000 and 16,000 years ago
Nature Communications 17(1): 2502
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-70681-z
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-70681-z
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Anders Bergström, Anja Furtwängler, Sarah Johnston, Erika Rosengren, Abagail Breidenstein, Thomas Booth, Jesse B. McCabe, Jessica Peto, Mia Williams, Monica Kelly, Frankie Tait, Chris Baumann, Rita Radzeviciute, Christopher Barrington, Kyriaki Anastasiadou, Alexandre Gilardet, Isabelle Glocke, Mattias Sherman, Anastasia Brativnyk, Alexander Herbig, Kay Prüfer, Saskia Pfrengle, Joscha Gretzinger, Tatiana R. Feuerborn, Ella Reiter, Anna Linderholm, Sophy Charlton, Fernando Racimo, Lea Mikkola, Hugo Anderson-Whymark, Douglas Baird, Anne Birgitte Gotfredsen, Hervé Bocherens, Anne Bridault, Rainer Brocke, Dorothée G. Drucker, Andrew S. Fairbairn, Laurent Frantz, Boris Gasparyan, Liane Giemsch, Mietje Germonpré, Luc Janssens, Andrew W. Kandel, Kurt Kjær, Martina Lázničková-Galetová, Daniel Loponte, Ola Magnell, Louise Martin, Susanne C. Münzel, Gökhan Mustafaoğlu, Bjørnar Måge, Angela Perri, Franziska Pfenninger, Martina Roblíčková, Annelise Roman-Binois, Özlem Sarıtaş, Katharina Schäppi, J. Alison Sheridan, Karl-Göran Sjögren, Jan Storå, Lasse Vilien Sørensen, Yvonne Tafelmaier, Florian Ter-Nedden, Olaf Thalmann, Greger Larson, Verena J. Schuenemann, Johannes Krause & Pontus Skoglund (2026)
Genomic history of early dogs in Europe
Nature 651(8107): 986–994
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10112-7
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10112-7
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William A. Marsh, Lachie Scarsbrook, Eren Yüncü, Lizzie Hodgson, Audrey T. Lin, Maria De Iorio, Olaf Thalmann, Mark G. Thomas, Mahaut Goor, Anders Bergström, Angela Noseda, Sarieh Amiri, Fereidoun Biglari, Dušan Borić, Katia Bougiouri, Alberto Carmagnini, Maddalena Giannì, Tom Higham, Ophelie Lebrasseur, Anna Linderholm, Marcello A. Mannino, Caroline Middleton, Gökhan Mustafaoğlu, Angela Perri, Joris Peters, Mike Richards, Özlem Sarıtaş, Pontus Skoglund, Rhiannon E. Stevens, Chris Stringer, Kristina Tabbada, Helen M. Talbot, Laura G. Van der Sluis, Silvia M. Bello, Vesna Dimitrijevic, Louise Martin, Marjan Mashkour, Simon A. Parfitt, Sonja Vukovic, Selina Brace, Oliver E. Craig, Douglas Baird, Sophy Charlton, Greger Larson, Ian Barnes & Laurent A. F. Frantz (2026)
Dogs were widely distributed across western Eurasia during the Palaeolithic
Nature 651(8107): 995–1003
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10170-x
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10170-x
Free pdf:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10170-x.pdf
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Antigone Uzunidis & Luca Pandolfi (2026)
Regional body-mass dynamics and long-term mixed feeding diet in the Pleistocene Stephanorhinus hemitoechus (Mammalia, Rhinocerotidae) from Western Europe
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 691: 113727
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2026.113727
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018226001902
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Kenneth D. Rose, Renate Rabenstein, Jörg Habersetzer & Timothy J. Gaudin (2026)
Anatomy of Eurotamandua joresi (Mammalia) from Grube Messel, Germany, based on computed tomography, and implications for its relationships. Part I: Background and forelimb
Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-025-00686-x
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12549-025-00686-x
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Jingmai O’Connor & Jesús Marugán-Lobón (2026)
Evaluating variation in Solnhofen avialans
Biology Letters 22(3): 20250601
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0601
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Qian Wu, Thomas A. Stidham, Jingmai K. O’Connor, Alida M. Bailleul, Zhonghe Zhou & Zhiheng Li (2026)
Critical innovations in the assembly of the modern flight apparatus in Early Cretaceous birds
iScience (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2026.115506
https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(26)00881-3
Free pdf:
https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2589-0042%2826%2900881-3
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M. M. Sander, K. R. Stoof-Leichsenring, S. Liu, W. Shen, S. Lisovski, U. Herzschuh
Sedimentary Metagenomics Reveal Avian Community Transitions From the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene
Ecology and EvolutionVolume 16, Issue 4 e72064
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.72064
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.72064
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ece3.72064
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Damien BOSCHETTO, Bruno MAGGIA, Léa DE BRITO, Julie BORGESE, Didier CLAVEL, Jean-Pierre CHENET, Thomas ROQUES, Stéphane SÈBE, Jean-Marc VEYSSIÈRES & Jean GOEDERT (2026)
Unusual Abelisauridae tooth mark on an Abelisauridae tooth from the Upper Cretaceous of Cruzy (Hérault, France): implications for feeding behaviours.
Geodiversitas 48(5): 69-85.
doi: https://doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2026v48a5.
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/geodiversitas/48/5
Free pdf:
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/hd/geodiversitas2026v48a5-pdfa.pdf
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Xiangyunloong fengming gen. et sp. nov.
Shao-Bin Hu, Yan-Chao Wang, Xiong Mo, Xiao-Qin Zhang, Wen-Tao Zeng, Tao Wang, Zai-Bo Sun, Qi-Xing Dong, Qi Guan, Yi-Hong Liu, Yu-Shen Zhang, Yin Bing, Ya-Ming Wang & Hai-Lu You (2026)
A new sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic Fengjiahe Formation of Dali of Yunnan Province, China
Royal Society Open Science 13(3): 252219
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.252219
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Lívia Motta Gil, Carlos Roberto dos Anjos Candeiro, Stephen Louis Brusatte, Kamila Luisa Bandeira & Luciano da Silva Vidal (2026)
Note on new late Cretaceous Titanosauria records from the Bauru group (Paraná basin) of southern Goiás state, Brazil
Estudos Geológicos 36: 20-34
doi: https://doi.org/10.51359/1980-8208.2026.269122
https://periodicos.ufpe.br/revistas/estudosgeologicos/article/view/269122
Free pdf:
https://periodicos.ufpe.br/revistas/estudosgeologicos/article/view/269122/51843
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Maria Luiza Peres Bertolossi, Kamila L. N. Bandeira, Roberta Veronese do Amaral, Arthur S. Brum, Rafael C. da Silva & Valéria Gallo (2026)
Paleopathology of a putative colossosaurian caudal vertebra (Neosauropoda: Titanosauria) from the Presidente Prudente Formation, Brazil
The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70180
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70180
Free pdf:
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.70180
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Sergio Sánchez-Fenollosa, Alberto Cobos, and Maite Suñer (2026)
The plated dinosaurs (Ornithischia, Stegosauria) of eastern Iberia (Spain): Taxonomy, diversity, and ecology.
Palaeontologia Electronica, 29(1): a13.
doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/1637
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2026/5818-stegosaurs-of-eastern-iberia
Free pdf:
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/pdfs/1637.pdf
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Cryptarcus gen. nov.
Cryptarcus russelli comb. nov.
Robert B. Holmes, Jordan C. Mallon, Michael J. Ryan and David C. Evans (2026)
New information on the holotype of “Chasmosaurus” russelli (Ornithischia: Ceratopsidae) necessitates the establishment of a new genus to receive the species
Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 63: 1-20 (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2025-0031
https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/cjes-2025-0031
Free pdf:
https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/epdf/10.1139/cjes-2025-0031
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Guilherme Hermanson & Serjoscha W. Evers (2026)
Ecological selectivity of diet on turtle K/Pg survivorship
Biology Letters 22 (3): 20250790
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0790
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Andrew Ji Yao Jian, Lorenz Schwark, Stephen Francis Poropat, Alex Ian Holman, Luke Marshall Brosnan, Maria Diaz Mateus, Michael Ernst Böttcher & Kliti Grice (2026)
Microbial oxidation and carbonate cementation led to three-dimensional preservation of ichthyosaur bones
Communications Earth & Environment 7: 268
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-026-03366-6
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-026-03366-6
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Macropoma gombessae sp. nov.
Jack L. Norton, Emma L. Bernard, Charles Wood, David M. Martill & Samuel L. A. Cooper (2026)
Oldest Cretaceous latimeriid elucidates cranial evolution in derived and extant coelacanths (Actinistia, Latimeriidae)
Papers in Palaeontology 12(2): e70076
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.70076
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.70076
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/spp2.70076
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Karen M. Panzeri, Humberto L. Andrelino, Sergio Bogan, José P. O'Gorman, Federico Agnolín, Brian L. Sidlauskas, Nahuel Vega, Agustín G. Martinelli & José L. Birindelli (2026)
MicroCT reinvestigation of the only articulated fossil anostomid fish reveals synonymy of Arhinolemur Ameghino, 1898 and Megaleporinus Ramirez et al., 2017
The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70178
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70178
Free pdf:
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.70178
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Book with free chapter pdfs:
Budowa geologiczna Polski. Tom 1. STRATYGRAFIA (2026)
[Geology of Poland. Vol. 1. Stratigraphy] (in Polish)
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Elena Y. Pavlova, Marina V. Dorozhkina, Aleksandr E. Basilyan & Vladimir V. Pitulko (2026)
High resolution record of vegetation and climate change in Western Beringia (Yana–Indighirka Lowland) at the end of the Late Pleistocene
Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 58(1): 2627696
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2026.2627696
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15230430.2026.2627696
Free pdf:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/15230430.2026.2627696
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Samuel T. Kodama & Terrence Blackburn (2026)
Eccentricity Controls the Magnitude and Periodicity of Pleistocene Glacial Cycles
Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 41(3): e2026PA005420
doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2026pa005420
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2026PA005420
Free pdf:
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2026PA005420
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Susana Salazar-Jaramillo, Andrés Ochoa & Daniel Hernandez-Deckers (2026)
Paleoclimate reconstruction of the Tatacoa region, Colombia, during the Middle Miocene Climatic Transition
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 113733
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2026.113733
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018226001963
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Nan Wang, Mengxiao Wu, He Tang, Paul J. Valdes, AlexFarnsworth, Tao Su, Zhekun Zhou & Shufeng Li (2026)
Global climate and vegetation changes during the Eocene-Oligocene Transition: a review of recent progress
Chinese Science Bulletin 71(3): 637 – 650
doi: https://doi.org/10.1360/CSB-2025-0232
https://www.sciengine.com/CSB/doi/10.1360/CSB-2025-0232
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Yan‑Da Li, David Peris, Constanza Peña-Kairath, Qian Zhao, Di-Ying Huang & Chen-Yang Cai (2026)
Revisiting early angiosperm pollination: a reassessment of Angimordella beetle and co-occurring thrips from mid-Cretaceous amber
BMC Biology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-026-02572-0
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12915-026-02572-0
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Jian-Jun Fan, Si-Lin Sun, Jian-Bo Zhou, Simon A. Wilde, Yang Wang & Jun-Pu Lv (2026)
Marine large igneous provinces: Key drivers of Triassic recurrent extinction
Geology (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1130/G53406.1
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W.J. McMahon, N.S. Davies, C. Wheeler & S.C. Löhr (2026)
Diversity of ancient clay mineral morphotypes: case studies of lacustrine deposits before and after the evolution of land plants
Journal of the Geological Society 183(3): jgs2025-188.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2025-188
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