Australopithecus + Elomeryx starckae + Notopolytheles + Masillaraptor buchheimi + Mamenchisaurus sanjiangensis + Telkaralura + more free pdfs
Ben Creisler
Ben Creisler
I hope all are well.
Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:
Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Gary T. Schwartz, Thomas C. Prang, Beverly Z. Saylor, Alan Deino, Luis Gibert, Anna Ragni & Naomi E. Levin (2025)
New finds shed light on diet and locomotion in Australopithecus deyiremeda
Nature (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09714-4
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09714-4
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Jesse M. Martin, Luca Morris-Obst, A. B. Leece, Stephanie Baker, Andy I. R. Herries & David S. Strait (2025)
The StW 573 Little Foot Fossil Should Not Be Attributed to Australopithecus prometheus
American Journal of Biological Anthropology 188(4): e70177
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.70177
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.70177
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ajpa.70177
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José Braga, Z. Alemseged & E. Gilissen (2025)
Complex and diverse patterns of neurocranial development in Australopithecus, Paranthropus and Homo
Scientific Reports 15: 41666
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-25584-2
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-25584-2
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Aroa Casado, Xavier Martínez-Liria, Marta San-Millán, Laura Menés, Neus Ciurana, Marcel García-Cuesta, Patrícia Rodríguez, Francisco Pastor, Roberto Cabo & Josep Maria Potau (2025)
Inferences about fossil hominin locomotion through 3D morphometric analysis of wrist ligament insertion sites
Scientific Reports 15: 42408
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-26487-y
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-26487-y
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Carolina Cucart-Mora, Diego Lombao, Antonio Pineda, Bruno Boemke, Beniamino Mecozzi & Marie-Hélène Moncel
The First Occupations of Western Europe: Dispersals and Population Dynamics in the Early to Middle Pleistocene
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 33: 19
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-025-09752-2
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10816-025-09752-2
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Reuven Yeshurun, Gideon Hartman, Hila May, Florent Rivals, Kathryn M. Crater Gershtein, Chen Zeigen & Yossi Zaidner (2025)
Archaic humans in the Middle Palaeolithic Levant conducted planned and selective intercepts of aurochs, but not mass hunting
Scientific Reports 15: 42237
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-26274-9
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-26274-9
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Gabriela Amorós & José S Carrión (2025)
The Mismeasure of Neanderthals
Earth History and Biodiversity 100036
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hisbio.2025.100036
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950475925000206
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Marlize Lombard (2025)
Pleistocene bow-hunting in Africa and the human mind
South African Journal of Science 121(11/12): #21461
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2025/21461
https://sajs.co.za/article/view/21461
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Francesca Gandini, Mafalda Almeida, M. George B. Foody, Nano Nagle, Anders Bergström, Anna Olivieri, Simão Rodrigues, Alessandro Fichera, Gonzalo Oteo-Garcia, Antonio Torroni, Alessandro Achilli, William Pomat, Zafarina Zainuddin, Ken Khong Eng, Tarek Shoeib, Teresa Rito, David Bulbeck, Sue O’Connor, Jarosław Bryk, Maria Pala, Michael J. Grant, Ceiridwen J. Edwards, Stephen J. Oppenheimer, Robert J. Mitchell, Pedro A. Soares, Helen Farr, and Martin B. Richards (2025)
Genomic evidence supports the “long chronology” for the peopling of Sahul
Science Advances 11(48): eady9493
DOI:10.1126/sciadv.ady9493
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ady9493
Free pdf:
https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.ady9493
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Jasper E Hunt, Shaun Warrington, Lea Roumazeilles, Saad Jbabdi, Zoltán Molnár, Stamatios N Sotiropoulos & Rogier B Mars (2025)
An anthropoid/strepsirrhine divergence in ventral visual stream connectivity
Cerebral Cortex 35(11): bhaf308
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhaf308
https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article/35/11/bhaf308/8343367
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Riki Tanaka, Tomo Takano, Eishi Hirasaki & Naomichi Ogihara (2026)
Morphological variation in the manual distal phalanges of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in relation to tool-use behavior
Journal of Human Evolution 210: 103787
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2025.103787
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004724842500140X
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Arlo Hinckley, Gonzalo E. Pinilla-Buitrago, Jesús E. Maldonado, Mary Faith C. Flores, Jacob A. Esselstyn, Nurul Inayah & Melissa T. R. Hawkins (2025)
Pliocene Forest Fragmentation Shaped Speciation in Tropical Asia's Giant Squirrels (Ratufa)
Molecular Ecology e70179
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.70179
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.70179
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/mec.70179
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Alexi J. Richmond, Ed Welsh, Wayne A. Thompson, Donald R. Prothero, and Katherine Marriott (2025)
A new anthracothere (Artiodactyla, Anthracotheriidae) from the Early Arikareean, Badlands National Park, South Dakota
Proceedings of the South Dakota Academy of Science 104: 23—44
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Ed Welsh (2025)
The description of the only known skull of Leptomeryx speciosus and its relevance to the evolution of Leptomerycidae (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) at the Eocene-Oligocene transition
Proceedings of the South Dakota Academy of Science 104: 45—54
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Uri Wolkowski, Liora Kolska Horwitz, Giulia Di Crosta, Viviane Slon, Guy Bar-Oz, Meirav Meiri & Nimrod Marom (2025)
Taxonomic and ecological characterization of the extinct Levantine hartebeest, Alcelaphus buselaphus (Pallas, 1766) (Bovidae: Alcelaphini)
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 205(3): zlaf153
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf153
https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/205/3/zlaf153/8343489
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WANG Shi-Qi, MA Jiao, FU Jiao & BAI Wei-Peng (2025)
A new cranium of Metacervocerus longdanensis (Cervidae, Mammalia) and the genus Metacervocerus in China
Vertebrata Palasiatica (advance online publication)
DOI: 10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.251118
https://www.vertpala.ac.cn/EN/10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.251118
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Marius F. Losco & Thomas Martin (2025)
A skeleton of Cuvierimops (Chiroptera: Molossidae) from the lower Oligocene (Rupelian) of Céreste, southern France
PalZ (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-025-00746-9
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12542-025-00746-9
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Anneke H. van Heteren & A. Stefanie Luft (2025)
Fossil bears break free from inhibitory cascade constraints at least twice (Ursus minimus and Ursus deningeri) caused by dietary adaptations
Boreas (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.70044
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bor.70044
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bor.70044
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Audrey T Lin, Regina A Fairbanks, Jose Barba-Montoya, Hsiao-Lei Liu & Logan Kistler (2025)
A legacy of genetic entanglement with wolves shapes modern dogs
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122 (48): e2421768122
doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2421768122
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2421768122
Free pdf:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2421768122
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Katia Bougiouri, Sabhrina Gita Aninta, Sophy Charlton, Alexander C Harris, Martin Petr, Alberto Carmagnini, Giedrė Piličiauskienė, Tatiana R Feuerborn, Lachie Scarsbrook, Kristina Tabbada, Povilas Blaževičius, Heidi G. Parker, Shyam Gopalakrishnan, Greger Larson, Elaine A. Ostrander, Evan K. Irving-Pease, Laurent A. F. Frantz, and Fernando Racimo (2025)
Imputation of ancient canid genomes reveals inbreeding history over the past 10,000 years
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122 (48): e2416980122
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2416980122
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2416980122
Free pdf:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2416980122
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Edson Patrick De Oliveira Quintes & Leila Maria Pessoa (2025)
Phylogenetic relationships between Monotremata and Monotremaformes: parallelism with appendages and habits of aquatic moles
Therya 16(3): 351-362
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12933/therya.2025.6169
https://therya.mastozoologiamexicana.com/index.php/THERYA/article/view/6169
Free pdf:
https://therya.mastozoologiamexicana.com/index.php/THERYA/article/view/6169/1541
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Notopolytheles joelis gen. et sp. nov.
Javier N. Gelfo, Francisco J. Goin & Nahuel A. Vega (2025)
First unambiguous evidence of Multituberculata from the Late Cretaceous of South America
Scientific Reports 15: 41500
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-25255-2
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-25255-2
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Masillaraptor buchheimi sp. nov.
Zhiheng Li, Grace Musser, Arvid Aase, and Julia Clarke (2025)
A new raptorial bird from the Lower Eocene Green River Formation of North America
Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 37(3): 69–78
doi: https://doi.org/10.7302/27584
https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/items/616a40b8-a794-44fe-93fa-ca3907e3939b
UUID: http://zoobank.org/lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B9B747D8-C4AA-4920-B74D-AF66F3468C7D
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Marie R. G. Attard, James Bowen and Steven J. Portugal (2025)
Scratching beyond the surface: examining macroecological patterns in avian eggshell texture
Journal of The Royal Society Interface 22(232): 2024.0527
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2024.0527
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2024.0527
Free pdf:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rsif.2024.0527
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Mamenchisaurus sanjiangensis sp. nov.
Hui Dai, Xu-Feng Hu, Chao Tan, Xin-Xin Ren, Qing-Yu Ma, Guang-Biao Wei & Hai-Lu You (2025)
A new mamenchisaurid sauropod dinosaur from the upper jurassic of Southwest China reveals new evolutionary evidence from East Asian eusauropods
Scientific Reports (advance online publication) (preprint unedited MS)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-29995-z
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-29995-z
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41598-025-29995-z
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Matías Reolid & Javier Cardenal (2025)
Description and interpretation of theropod tracks from the Berriasian tidal flats of the South-Iberian Palaeomargin (Internal Prebetic, S Spain)
Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae 95(3): 179-188
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14241/asgp.2025.12
https://geojournals.pgi.gov.pl/asgp/article/view/34648
Free pdf:
https://geojournals.pgi.gov.pl/asgp/article/view/34648/25918
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Li-Da Xing, Shan Jiang, Qi-Yan Chen, Yong Ye, Guang-Zhao Peng, Anthony Romilio, Hendrik Klein & Yan-Yi Gong (2025)
Grallatorid–eubrontid tridactyl track assemblages from Lower Jurassic, Sichuan Province, China: Insights into theropod diversity, locomotion and behavior
Journal of Palaeogeography 100311
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jop.2025.100311
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095383625001178
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Marko Yurac, Matteo Belvedere, Christian Salazar, Javiera Méndez & Christian Meyer (2025)
Upper Jurassic dinosaur tracks from the Majala Formation in the Huatacondo area (Tarapacá Basin, Chile): reappraisal of known localities and new tracksite discoveries
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 72
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00419-9
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13358-025-00419-9
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Henry S. Sharpe, Phil R. Bell, Ian Baylatry, Robin Sissons & Corwin Sullivan (2025)
Re-evaluation of a soft crested Edmontosaurin, with implications for hadrosaurid life appearance and diversity
The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70098
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70098
Free pdf:
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.70098
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Leonardo D. Ortiz-David, Bernardo J. González-Riga, Gabriel Casal, María Belén Tomaselli & Imanol Figueredo-Vieyra (2025)
Taphonomic analysis of Thanatosdrakon amaru (Pterodactyloidea: Azhdarchoidea) and paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Plottier Formation (Upper Cretaceous, Neuquén Basin), Mendoza, Argentina
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 97(Suppl. 1): e20250487
doi: https://doi.org/10.1590/0001-3765202520250487
https://www.scielo.br/j/aabc/a/3pnw6Vs6sz66pzs97rn54vB/abstract/?lang=en
Free pdf:
https://www.scielo.br/j/aabc/a/3pnw6Vs6sz66pzs97rn54vB/?format=pdf&lang=en
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Richard Buchmann & Taissa Rodrigues (2025)
Resistance of cervical vertebrae in response to muscular stresses in pterosaurs: implications for foraging habits and skeletal pneumatization.
PeerJ 13:e20388
doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20388
https://peerj.com/articles/20388/
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Hector Rivera-Sylva, David Hone, Martha Aguillón-Martínez, Rubén Guzmán-Gutiérrez, David Morales-Flores, Iván Sánchez-Uribe, José Flores-Ventura and Rafael Vivas-González (2025)
Pterosaurs (Pterosauria) from the Cerro del Pueblo Formation (Late Campanian) of Coahuila, Mexico
Palaeovertebrata 48(2)-e1.
doi: 10.18563/pv.48.2.e1
https://www.palaeovertebrata.com/Articles/view/423
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Mario Bronzati, Akinobu Watanabe, Roger B.J. Benson, Rodrigo T. Müller, Lawrence M. Witmer, Martín D. Ezcurra, Felipe C. Montefeltro, M. Belén von Baczko, Bhart-Anjan S. Bhullar, Julia B. Desojo, Fabien Knoll, Max C. Langer, Stephan Lautenschlager, Michelle R. Stocker, Alan H. Turner, Ingmar Werneburg, Sterling J. Nesbitt & Matteo Fabbri (2025)
Neuroanatomical convergence between pterosaurs and non-avian paravians in the evolution of flight
Current Biology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.10.086
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982225014678
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)01467-8
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https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0960-9822%2825%2901467-8
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Telkaralura coniceti nov. gen. et sp.
M. Belén von Baczko, Martín D. Ezcurra, Agustina Lecuona, Nahuel Vega, and Julia B. Desojo (2025)
A new large gracilisuchid from the Upper Triassic levels of the Chañares Formation
Ameghiniana 62(5): xx–xx.
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5710/AMGH.29.09.2025.3658
https://www.ameghiniana.org.ar/index.php/ameghiniana/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/152
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Milan Becker, Nimrod Leberstein, and Mark Shein-Idelson (2025)
View-invariant representations in ancestral cortex
Science Advances 11(48): eady9659
DOI:10.1126/sciadv.ady965
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ady9659
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Erika R. Goldsmith & Michelle R. Stocker (2025)
A detailed redescription of a skeletally immature ‘Redondasaurus’ suggests ontogenetic transformations in the taxon mirror phytosaurian morphological evolution
The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70076
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70076
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https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.70076
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Nicholas R. Longrich, Nathalie Bardet, Nour-Eddine Jalil, Xabier Pereda-Suberbiola, Anne Schulp & Mohamed Ghamizi (2025)
New Information on the Morphology and Tooth Replacement of Xenodens calminechari (Squamata: Mosasauridae), a Unique Mosasaurid from the Maastrichtian Phosphates of Morocco
Diversity 17(12): 819
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/d17120819
https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/17/12/819
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Jasper Ponstein, Mark J. MacDougall, Joep Schaeffer, Christian F. Kammerer & Jörg Fröbisch (2025)
Mandibular form and function is more disparate in amniotes than in non-amniote tetrapods from the late Palaeozoic.
PeerJ 13:e20243
doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20243
https://peerj.com/articles/20243/
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Luis F. Camacho and Miguel B. Araujo (2025)
Global evidence of non-pyramidal and uniform ratios of animal diversity across terrestrial trophic levels
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 292(2059): 20252335
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.2335
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2025.2335
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https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rspb.2025.2335
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Steffen Kiel, Pia Götz, James L. Goedert & Wolf-Achim Kahl (2025)
Fossil traces of Osedax in dense whale ear bones and thoughts on potential further food sources
PalZ (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-025-00759-4
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12542-025-00759-4
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Laura Fuentes‐Tejada, Davinia Torreblanca, José Carlos Báez
Global Assessment of Marine Reptiles and Mammals Using a Taxonomic Distinctness Tool: Implications for Their Conservation
Ecology and Evolution 15(11): e72537
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.72537
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.72537
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ece3.72537
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A. V. Lopatin, D. A. Lopatina, O. G. Zanina, A. V. Protopopov & A. I. Klimovsky (2025)
Habitat reconstruction for the Late Pleistocene Siberian saber-toothed cat Homotherium using microphytofossils
Scientific Reports 15: 42607
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-26872-7
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-26872-7
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Joaquin Bastias-Silva, Marcelo Leppe, Leslie Manriquez, Cristine Trevisan, Bethany R. S. Fox, Matthias Magiera, Gary Wilson, Lorenzo Tavazzani, Cyril Chelle-Michou, Liang Gao, Dawid Szymanowski, Héctor Mansilla, Carolina Silva, Francisco Hervé & Claudio Tapia (2025)
Neogene plant macrofossils from West Antarctica reveal persistence of Nothofagaceae forests into the early Miocene
Communications Earth & Environment 6: 965
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02921-x
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02921-x
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Julian Rogger, Vera A. Korasidis, Gabriel J. Bowen, Christine A. Shields, Taras V. Gerya & Loïc Pellissier (2025)
Loss of vegetation functions during the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum
Nature Communications (unedited advance publication)
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-66390-8
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-66390-8
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Lingyuanfructus hibrida gen. et sp. nov. (plant fossil)
Xin Wang (2025)
Lingyuanfructus: The First Fossil Angiosperm with Naked Seeds
Life 15(12): 1827
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/life15121827
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/15/12/1827
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Spinograna myanmarensis gen. et sp. nov (plant fossil)
Xin Wang & Weijia Huang (2025)
The spiniest seeds found in Mid-Cretaceous Myanmar amber
BMC Plant Biology 25: 1643
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-025-07654-9
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12870-025-07654-9
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