Morocco early hominins + mammoth diets + Xenovenator + running theropods + early radiations of jawed vertebrates + more free pdfs

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Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:

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Jean-Jacques Hublin, David Lefèvre, Serena Perini, Giovanni Muttoni, Matthew M. Skinner, Shara E. Bailey, Sarah Freidline, Philipp Gunz, Mathieu Rué, Mohssine El Graoui, Denis Geraads, Camille Daujeard, Thomas W. Davies, Kornelius Kupczik, Mykolas D. Imbrasas, Alejandra Ortiz, Christophe Falguères, Qingfeng Shao, Jean-Jacques Bahain, Alain Queffelec, Asier Gómez-Olivencia, Stefano Benazzi, Adeline Le Cabec, Rita Sorrentino, Inga Bergmann, Fatima-Zohra Sbihi-Alaoui, Rosalia Gallotti, Jean-Paul Raynal & Abderrahim Mohib (2026)

Early hominins from Morocco basal to the Homo sapiens lineage

Nature (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09914-y

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09914-y

Free pdf:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09914-y.pdf

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Leah C Redmond and Claire A Higgins (2026)

Not quite naked: the bare necessities of human body hair evolution

British Journal of Dermatology, ljaf395

https://doi.org/10.1093/bjd/ljaf395

https://academic.oup.com/bjd/advance-article/doi/10.1093/bjd/ljaf395/8417413

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Simon Okholm, Alain Taieb, Hamid-Reza Rezvani & Maël Lemoine (2026)

Dark Skin Evolution in Early Humans: Revisiting the Skin Cancer Hypothesis Through Migration-Related Mismatch.

Molecular Biology and Evolution 43(1): msaf306

doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf306

https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/43/1/msaf306/8413395

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Sven Isaksson, Anders Högberg and Marlize Lombard (2026)

Direct evidence for poison use on microlithic arrowheads in Southern Africa at 60,000 years ago

Science Advances 12(2): eadz3281

DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adz3281

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adz3281

Free pdf:

https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.adz3281

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Barbara Bujalska, Michał Golubiński, Danijela Popović, Claudio Berto, Nicholas J. Conard, Anna Lemanik, Elisa Luzi, Zoran Marković, Adam Nadachowski, Vasil Popov, Ivan Horáček & Mateusz Baca (2026)

Biogeographic history of the Late Pleistocene and Holocene European small hamsters (subfamily Cricetinae)

Scientific Reports (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-34298-4

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-34298-4

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Radim Šumbera, Michaela Uhrová, Nigel C. Bennett, Seth J. Eiseb, Chris G. Faulkes, Kyle T. Finn, Matěj Lövy, Ketty Phiri, Paul A.A.G. Van Daele, Barbora Zíková & Ondřej Mikula (2026)

Intraspecific differentiation and phylogeography of the Damaraland mole-rat Fukomys damarensis reveals rapid colonization of arid savannahs during the late Pleistocene

Mammalian Biology (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42991-025-00546-3

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42991-025-00546-3

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Flavien Vincent, Antoine Souron, Isaac Casanovas-Vilar, Jesús Gamarra & Ornella C. Bertrand (2025)

The brain endocast of the Canary Islands giant rats (Canariomys, Muridae, Rodentia): paleobiological and evolutionary implications

Journal of Mammalian Evolution 32: 40

doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-025-09785-0

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10914-025-09785-0

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Owen Axel Goodchild, Sydney Nicole Rosen, Bastien Mennecart, Jin Meng & Jérémy Tissier (2026)

The petrosal and bony labyrinth of extinct horses (Perissodactyla, Equidae) and their implications for perissodactyl evolution

PeerJ 14:e20484

doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20484

https://peerj.com/articles/20484/

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Wilson, Oscar Edward; Rincón, Aldo F.; Carrillo, Juan D.; Suarez, Catalina; Saarinen, Juha (2025)

New mammalian herbivore records from the Early to Middle Miocene Castilletes fauna, Colombia and late Neogene environmental change in northern South America

PaleoBios 42(7): 1-16

doi: https://doi.org/10.5070/P9.41790

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1109w01k

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Diego Hernández-Sandoval, Marisol Montellano-Ballesteros, Ricardo Vasconcelos-Ginzo, Francisco Sánchez-Beristain, Juan Pablo Bernal, Orlando Hernández-Cristóbal & Andreas Pack (2026)

Blancan climate and feeding strategies of proboscideans and equids revealed by a multi-proxy geochemical analysis from a new locality in north-western Mexico.

Fossil Record 29(1): 11-36.

doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.29.174847

https://fr.pensoft.net/article/174847/

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Eduardo Sebastián Monsalvo, Gabriela I. Schmidt, M. Susana Bargo & Sergio F. Vizcaíno (2026)

Litopterna (Mammalia) from the Santa Cruz Formation (Early-Middle Miocene), Río Chalía, Patagonia, Argentina

Andean Geology 53(1): (advance online publication)

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5027/andgeoV53n1-3779

https://andeangeology.cl/index.php/revista1/article/view/V53n1-3779

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John Peacock & J. G. M. Thewissen (2025)

Inner ear volume scaling in mammals with specific reference to semicircular canals in cetacean origins

Journal of Mammalian Evolution 32: 45

doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-025-09790-3

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10914-025-09790-3

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Chance D. Hannold, Yang Wang, Xiaoming Wang, Regan Dunn & Jonathan Hoffman (2026)

Diets and environments of late Pleistocene pygmy and Columbian mammoths: Isotopic evidence from Southern California.

PLoS One 21(1): e0338674.

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0338674

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0338674

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Nikolaos Kargopoulos, David Morales Flores, Plini Montoya, Alberto Valenciano, Daniel DeMiguel, Jorge Morales & Juan Abella (2025)

The last of Europe: systematics and palaeoecology of the ictitheres (Hyaenidae) from Venta del Moro (Spain)

Journal of Mammalian Evolution 32: 43

doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-025-09780-5

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10914-025-09780-5

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Xenovenator espinosai gen. et sp. nov.

Hector E. Rivera-Sylva, Martha C. Aguillón-Martinez, Jose Flores-Ventura, Ivan E. Sánchez-Uribe, Jose Ruben Guzman-Gutierrez and Nicholas R. Longrich (2026)

A Thick-Skulled Troodontid Theropod from the Late Cretaceous of Mexico

Diversity 18(1): 38

doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/d18010038

https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/18/1/38

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Bruno A. Navarro, Jeffrey A. Wilson Mantilla, Jhonata H. A. Martins, Fabiano V. Iori, Leonardo S. Paschoa, Alberto B. Carvalho, Joseli M. Piranha & Hussam Zaher (2026)

An unusual titanosaur axis from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil and its significance for sauropod anatomy and systematics

The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70118

https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70118

Free pdf:

https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.70118

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Ignacio Díaz-Martínez, Pablo Navarro-Lorbés, Erik Isasmendi, Adrián Páramo, Francesc Gascó-Lluna, Angélica Torices, Javier Ruiz, Luis Ignacio Viera, Patxi Sáez-Benito, James Farlow, Giuseppe Leonardi, Xabier Pereda-Suberbiola & Paolo Citton (2026)

Footprint morphology sheds light on running strategies in non-avian theropods

Scientific Reports 15: 44217

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-31361-y

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-31361-y

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Adrián Talavera, Bernat Burriel-Carranza, Gabriel Mochales-Riaño, Maria Estarellas, Oscar Arribas, Héctor Tejero-Cicuéndez, Judit Salces-Ortiz, Daniel Fernández- Guiberteau, Fèlix Amat, Manel Niell, Rosa Fernández, Alexander S. Mikheyev & Salvador Carranza (2026)

Lizards on a sky archipelago: Genomic approaches to the evolution of the mountain genus Iberolacerta

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 217: 108527

doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2025.108527

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790325002441

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Gabriela Calábková, Jakub Březina & Roland Nádaskay (2026)

A highly diverse Pennsylvanian tetrapod ichnoassemblage from the Semily Formation (Krkonoše Piedmont Basin, Czechia)

PeerJ 14:e20437

doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20437

https://peerj.com/articles/20437/

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Wahei Hagiwara and Lauren Sallan (2026)