Paradolichopithecus + alvarezsauroid forelimbs + Nagatitan + Triunfosaurus + Laueropterus + Karabalyk + more free pdfs
Ben Creisler
Ben Creisler
I hope all are safe and well.
Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:
Alisa V. Zubova, Lydia V. Zotkina, John W. Olsen, Alexander M. Kulkov, Vyacheslav G. Moiseyev, Anna A. Malyutina, Roman V. Davydov, Sergey V. Markin, Eugene A. Maksimovskiy, Pavel V. Chistyakov, Andrey I. Krivoshapkin & Ksenia A. Kolobova (2026)
Earliest evidence for invasive mitigation of dental caries by Neanderthals.
PLoS One 21(5): e0347662.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0347662
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0347662
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Qiaomei Fu, Zhongyou Wu, E. Andrew Bennett, Song Xing, Qiang Ji, Zhe Dong, Huiyun Rao, Xuejun Gu, Yizhao Dang, Jun Xing, Kai Zhou & Xiaotian Feng (2026)
Enamel proteins from six Homo erectus specimens across China
Nature (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10478-8
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41586-026-10478-8
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Marine Cazenave, Annalisa Pietrobelli, Andrea Luková, Sebastian Bachmann, Matthew V. Caruana, Ronald J. Clarke, Christopher J. Dunmore, Ashley S. Hammond, Jason L. Heaton, A. J. Heile, Jakobus Hoffman, Kathleen Kuman, Dieter H. Pahr, Christopher M. Smith, Dominic Stratford, Alexander Synek, Zewdi J. Tsegai, Tracy L. Kivell, Travis Rayne Pickering, and Matthew M. Skinner (2026)
Swartkrans Paranthropus and Sterkfontein Australopithecus from southern Africa had different locomotor repertoires
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123(20): e2532193123
doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2532193123
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2532193123
Free pdf:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2532193123
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YAO Yanyan, AI Wanting, HU Minhang, FU Qiongyao, LI Guoshan, ZHONG Jiemei, HU Pengcheng, HUANG Shengmin, TIAN Chun, LIANG Hua, LIAO Wei, WANG Wei & YI Zhixing (2026)
Gigantopithecus blacki discovered in the Early-Middle Pleistocene transition phase in Yanli Cave 1, Chongzuo, Guangxi
Acta Anthropologica Sinica 45(02): 199-209. (in Chinese; English abstract)
doi:10.16359/j.1000-3193/AAS.2026.0010
https://www.anthropol.ac.cn/EN/10.16359/j.1000-3193/AAS.2026.0010
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DU Ruiyan, ZHANG Maolin & GUAN Ying (2026)
Plant micro-remains from dental calculus of Gigantopithecus blacki in Liucheng, Guangxi
Acta Anthropologica Sinica 45(02): 268-279 (in Chinese; English abstract)
doi:10.16359/j.1000-3193/AAS.2026.0012
https://www.anthropol.ac.cn/EN/10.16359/j.1000-3193/AAS.2026.0012
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YAO Yanyan, LIAO Wei, LI Juping, YI Zhixing, TIAN Chun, ZHONG Jiemei, GAO Chao, WANG Wei & LIANG Hua (2026)
Early Middle Pleistocene Pongo from Yanli Cave 2, Chongzuo, Guangxi
Acta Anthropologica Sinica 45(02): 210-223 (in Chinese; English abstract)
doi:10.16359/j.1000-3193/AAS.2026.0009
https://www.anthropol.ac.cn/EN/10.16359/j.1000-3193/AAS.2026.0009
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WANG Siyuan, LI Jinyan, LIANG Hua, XIE Yaozhang, LIAO Wei & WANG Wei (2026)
Newly discovered orangutan fossils from western Guangxi and their taxonomic and evolutionary significance
Acta Anthropologica Sinica 45(02): 224-235. (in Chinese; English abstract)
doi:10.16359/j.1000-3193/AAS.2026.0013
https://www.anthropol.ac.cn/EN/10.16359/j.1000-3193/AAS.2026.0013
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XU Shilin, YANG Yuwei, LIANG Hua, YAO Yanyan, TIAN Chun, DONG Ruxun, HUANG Nannan, LIAO Wei, WANG Wei
Newly discovered early Late Pleistocene orangutan teeth from southern China
Acta Anthropologica Sinica 45(02): 236-247. (in Chinese; English abstract)
doi:10.16359/j.1000-3193/AAS.2026.0017
https://www.anthropol.ac.cn/EN/10.16359/j.1000-3193/AAS.2026.0017
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YI Zhixing, QIU Ruoxuan, WANG Wei, LIAO Wei, LIANG Hua, TIAN Chun, MIERADILI · Tuerxunjiang, ZHANG Yijing & YAO Yanyan (2026)
Three-dimensional enamel thickness of the fourth deciduous premolars in Middle-to-Late Pleistocene Pongo
Acta Anthropologica Sinica 45(02): 248-257. (in Chinese; English abstract)
doi:10.16359/j.1000-3193/AAS.2025.0116
https://www.anthropol.ac.cn/EN/10.16359/j.1000-3193/AAS.2025.0116
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MENG Ziyang, YANG Yuwei, LIAO Wei, WANG Wei & YI Zhixing (2026)
Three-dimensional enamel thickness and bite force of Rudapithecus hungaricus and implications for its dietary adaptation
Acta Anthropologica Sinica 45(02): 258-267. (in Chinese; English abstract)
doi:10.16359/j.1000-3193/AAS.2025.0117
https://www.anthropol.ac.cn/EN/10.16359/j.1000-3193/AAS.2025.0117
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Stylianos Koutalis, Carolin Röding, Gildas Merceron, Franck Guy, Dimitris S. Kostopoulos & Katerina Harvati (2026)
Virtual reconstruction and analysis of the face of DFN3-150 Paradolichopithecus aff. arvernensis specimen from Dafnero, Greece
Scientific Reports 16: 14703
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-51595-8
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-51595-8
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Christos Alexandros Plastiras, Dimitrios S. Kostopoulos, Franck Guy, Ghislain Thiery, Vincent Lazzari, George Lyras, Alexandra van der Geer, Alexandru Petculescu, Aurelian Popescu & Gildas Merceron (2026)
New Insights on the Dietary Ecology of Paradolichopithecus (Cercopithecidae, Mammalia) from Dafnero-3 (Greece)
PaleoAnthropology 2026(1): 122-147
DOI: https://doi.org/10.48738/2026.iss1.4029
https://paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.php/paleo/article/view/4029
Free pdf:
https://paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.php/paleo/article/view/4029/4002
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George Koufos (2026)
The Late Miocene Colobine Monkey Mesopithecus (Primates, Cercopithecidae) of Greece
PaleoAnthropology 2026(1): 171-229
DOI: https://doi.org/10.48738/2026.iss1.3957
https://paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.php/paleo/article/view/3957
Free pdf:
https://paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.php/paleo/article/view/3957/4004
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Siobhan Cooke, Ryan P. Knigge, Melissa Tallman, Andrés F. Vanegas, Laura K. Stroik, Brian Shearer, Savannah Cobb, Stephanie M. Palmer, Zana R. Sims, Luis G. Ortiz-Pabón & Andrés Link (2026)
Mandibular Specimens of Stirtonia victoriae From the La Victoria Formation, La Venta, Colombia
PaleoAnthropology 2026(1): 148-170
DOI: https://doi.org/10.48738/2026.iss1.3992
https://paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.php/paleo/article/view/3992
Free pdf:
https://paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.php/paleo/article/view/3992/4003
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Z. Jack Tseng (2026)
New materials of the rare fossil mustelid Cernictis hesperus (Carnivora, Mammalia) from the Pinole Tuff genotype locality in California
PeerJ 14: e20894
doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20894
https://peerj.com/articles/20894/
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DONG Wei, LIU Wen-Hui, LIU Si-Zhao, WANG Yuan, LIU Jin-Yuan & JIN Chang-Zhu (2026)
New material of Early Pleistocene Sus lydekkeri (Artiodactyla, Mammalia) from Luotuo Hill in Dalian, Northeast China
Vertebrata Palasiatica (advance online publication)
DOI: 10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.260511
https://www.vertpala.ac.cn/EN/10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.260511
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Mónica R. Buono, Florencia Paolucci, Lisandro Campos, Mariana Viglino, C. Maximiliano Gaetán, Viviana N. Milano, Nicolás D. Farroni & Marta S. Fernández (2026)
Cetacean evolution through the lens of ecospace modeling and disparity analyse
Nature Communications (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-73108-x
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-73108-x
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Emily A. Buchholtz, Felix G. Marx, Carlos Mauricio Peredo & Mark D. Uhen (2026)
Sternal anatomy reflects feeding style in mysticete cetaceans
Journal of Mammalian Evolution 33: 20
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-026-09816-4
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10914-026-09816-4
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Kenneth D. Rose, Renate Rabenstein, Jörg Habersetzer & Timothy J. Gaudin (2026)
Micro-computed tomography indicates Eurotamandua, putative anteater from the Eocene of Messel, Germany, is related to pangolins, not xenarthrans
Scientific Reports (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-51713-6
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41598-026-51713-6
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Nicole D. S. Grunstra (2026)
Humans are not unique: difficult birth is common in placental mammals
Biological Reviews (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/brv.70174
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/brv.70174
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/brv.70174
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María Alejandra Sosa & Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche (2026)
A small synsacrum of an enigmatic bird from the Eocene of Marambio (Seymour) Island: insights into the Antarctic avifauna
Publicación Electrónica de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina 26(1): 178–186
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5710/PEAPA.10.02.2026.565
https://peapaleontologica.org.ar/index.php/peapa/article/view/565
Free pdf:
https://peapaleontologica.org.ar/index.php/peapa/article/view/565/954
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Francisco J. Serrano, M. Patrocinio Espigares, Guillermo Rodríguez-Gómez, Bienvenido Martínez-Navarro, Sergio Ros-Montoya, Javier C. Terol, Óscar Sanisidro, Antonio Guerra-Merchán, José Manuel García-Aguilar, Isidoro Campaña, Alejandro Granados & Paul Palmqvist (2026)
Avian remains from Venta Micena (Baza Basin, Granada Geopark) shed light on the Early Pleistocene wetland environments and trophic dynamics of the Southern Iberian Peninsula
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 145: 597-623.
doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/sjp.145.182523
https://sjp.pensoft.net/article/182523/
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Sidney Leedham, Zichuan Qin, Benjamin William Griffin, Antonio Ballell, Yilun Yu, Xing Xu & Emily Rayfield (2026)
Range of motion and myology support a digging function for the forelimbs of alvarezsauroid dinosaurs
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 293(2070): 20260565
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2026.0565
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Yuqi HUANG, Wenhao WU, Bolotsky Ivan & Kaifeng YU (2026)
Additional small theropod remains from the Upper Cretaceous Nenjiang Formation in Songliao Basin, Northeast China
Global Geology 29(1): 1-12
DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-9736.2026.01.01
https://www.sciopen.com/article/10.3969/j.issn.1673-9736.2026.01.01
Free pdf:
https://www.sciopen.com/article/pdf/10.3969/j.issn.1673-9736.2026.01.01.pdf
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Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis gen. et sp. nov.
Thitiwoot Sethapanichsakul, Sasa-On Khansubha, Sita Manitkoon, Rattanaphorn Hanta, Philip D. Mannion & Paul Upchurch (2026)
The first sauropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Khok Kruat Formation of Thailand enriches the diversity of somphospondylan titanosauriforms in southeast Asia
Scientific Reports 16: 12467
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-47482-x
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-47482-x
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Philip D Mannion and Ismar de Souza Carvalho (2026)
Re-evaluation of the Early Cretaceous titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur Triunfosaurus leonardii from the Triunfo Basin, Brazil: implications for the initial radiations of Somphospondyli and Titanosauria
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 207(1): zlag073
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlag073
https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/207/1/zlag073/8675250
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Laueropterus vitriolus gen. et sp. nov.
David W.E. Hone (2026)
A new early monofenestratan pterosaur from the Mörnsheim Formation of southern Germany.
PeerJ 14: e21204
doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.21204
https://peerj.com/articles/21204/
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Zelin Wu, Liliana D'ALba, Zhou Chang-Fu, Julia Clarke, Jinhua Li, Matthew Shawkey & Quanguo Li (2026)
Iridescence in pterosaur pycnofibers and the evolution of integumentary coloration
bioRxiv 2026.05.06.723168 (preprint)
doi: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.05.06.723168
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.06.723168v1
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Jorgo Ristevski, Julien Louys, Sue O’Connor, Adam M Yates, Molly Husdell, Gilbert J Price, Sean Ulm, Ian J McNiven, Steven W Salisbury & Nicole Boivin (2026)
The late Quaternary crocodylian record from Australasia
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 207(1): zlag065
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlag065
https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/207/1/zlag065/8676267
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Arnaud Brignon (2026)
Le mystérieux « téléosaure » de l’Aptien de Bléville (Normandie) dans la collection Meurdra enfin dévoilé (Crocodylomorpha, Pholidosauridae)
[The mysterious “teleosaur” from the Aptian of Bléville (Normandy) in the Meurdra collection finally unveiled (Crocodylomorpha, Pholidosauridae))]
Carnets natures 13 : 45-54 (in French)
https://carnetsnatures.fr/volume%2013/mysterieuxtelosaure_A.Brignon.pdf
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Olivia Binfield, Marco Camaiti & Lucy Roberts (2026)
Drivers of tail evolution in squamates and their implications for the fossorial origin of snakes
The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70222
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70222
Free pdf:
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.70222
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Bernd Fritzsch and Ebenezer N. Yamoah (2026)
Evolution of Bony Fish: Without a Cryptic Sarcopterygian, It May Have Evolved Actinopterygians into Terrestrial Animals
Diversity 18(5): 293
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/d18050293
https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/18/5/293
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Spencer G. Lucas, Adrian P. Hunt, Edward L. Simpson and Larry F. Rinehart (2026)
An Isolated Fish Skull from the Nonmarine Eocene of Wyoming, USA: A Case Study in Evaluating a Possible Regurgitalite
Fossil Studies 4(2): 11
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/fossils4020011
https://www.mdpi.com/2813-6284/4/2/11
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Karabalyk esini gen. et sp. nov.
Aleksandr Bakaev & Ilja Kogan (2026)
A new genus and species of basal actinopterygian fish (Osteichthyes) from the Permian of European Russia
Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia E Stratigrafia 132(2): 353-367
doi: 10.54103/2039-4942/30634.
https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/30634
Free pdf:
https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/30634/26263
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Kleyton M. Cantalice, Jair I. Barrientos-Lara, Jesús Quiroz-Barragán, E. Aldrin Juárez-Aguilar & Miguel A. Torres-Martínez (2026)
On the presence of †Hybodontiform (Euselachii) remains in Permian outcrops from Coahuila, Mexico
Historical Biology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2026.2666151
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2026.2666151
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D. Rex Mitchell (2026)
A New Model of Feeding Biomechanics Based on Tied-Arch Principles
Integrative Zoology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1749-4877.70119
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1749-4877.70119
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1749-4877.70119
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McKayla J. (MJ) Fitzpatrick and Kenshu Shimada (2026)
Late Cretaceous Marine Vertebrates from the Upper Half of the Pfeifer Shale Member of the Greenhorn Limestone in Central Kansas, USA, and Comments on the Geologically Oldest Mosasaur Remains in Kansas
Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 129(1-2): 33-46
doi: https://doi.org/10.1660/062.129.0105
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Cristiano P. Galeazzi, Renato P. Almeida, Carlos E. E. Mazoca, Liliane Janikian, André O. Sawakuchi, Felipe T. Figueiredo, Camila C. Ribas, Florian Wittmann & Fabiano N. Pupim (2026)
Mid-late Pleistocene evolution of fluvial landscapes in Central Amazonia: Shaping ecosystems and areas of endemism
Science Advances 12(20): eaee2085
doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aee2085
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aee2085
Free pdf:
https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.aee2085
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Maud J. M. Meijers, Tamás Mikes, Bora Rojay, H. Evren Çubukçu, Erkan Aydar, Tina Lüdecke, and Andreas Mulch (2026)
Climate change drove Late Miocene to Pliocene rise and fall of C4 vegetation at the crossroads of Africa and Eurasia (Anatolia, Türkiye)
Climate of the Past 22: 975–988
doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-975-2026
https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/22/975/2026/
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David Manuel Martín-Perea, Yong Wu, Clara Mielgo, Yongtao Quan, Chunxiao Li, Jiayun Du, Lihong Jin, Dingge Guo, Tao Deng, Shi-Qi Wang (2026)
Formation processes of Late Miocene Hipparion Red Clay vertebrate assemblages from northern China: taphonomic constraints on palaeoecological and biochronological interpretations.
Fossil Record 29(1): 211-226.
doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.29.189157
https://fr.pensoft.net/article/189157/
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Linhao Fang, Robert J. Newton, Xiaoyu Zhang, Hongjia Li, Guangli Wang, Shenghui Deng, Paul B. Wignall, Yuanzheng Lu, Chaokun Zhang, Meijun Li, Huaichun Wu, Tianchen He, Benzhong Xian, Shengbao Shi, Lei Zhu, Simon H. Bottrell, and Stephen P. Hesselbo (2026)
Pulsed volcanic sulfur emissions linked to the end-Triassic terrestrial crisis
Science Advances 12(20): eadz6570
DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adz6570
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adz6570
Free pdf:
https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.adz6570
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Alessio Capobianco, Gustavo Darlim & Sebastian Höhna (2026)
How to date a molecular phylogeny: comparison of effective priors between node calibration and fossilized birth–death
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 293(2070): 20253255 .
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.3255