Ben Creisler
I hope people are well.
Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:
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10th Symposium about Dinosaurs Palaeontology and their Environment 2025
Free pdf:
https://www.fundaciondinosaurioscyl.com/docftp/libroresumenesxjornadassalas.pdf
https://www.fundaciondinosaurioscyl.com/es/c/?iddoc=2411
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Marina Vegara-Riquelme, Enrique Baquedano & Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo (2025)
Early humans and the balance of power: Homo habilis as prey
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.15321
https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nyas.15321
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https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/nyas.15321
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Gianpiero Di Maida (2025)
Becoming Neanderthal.
EAZ – Ethnographisch-Archaeologische Zeitschrift 59(2):xxx
doi: https://doi.org/10.54799/KPOX9368.
https://www.eaz-journal.org/index.php/eaz/article/view/1663
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https://www.eaz-journal.org/index.php/eaz/article/view/1663/1581
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E.A. Petrova, N.D. Burova and A.A. Bessudnov (2025)
Mammalian fauna of the Upper Palaeolithic site Kostenki 17 (Spitsynskaya) in the context of human hunting and gathering
Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS 329(3): 258–288
doi: https://doi.org/10.31610/trudyzin/2025.329.3.258
https://www.zin.ru/journals/trudyzin/eng/publication.html?id=605
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https://www.zin.ru/journals/trudyzin/doc/vol_329_3/TZ_329_3_Petrova.pdf
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E.A. Petrova and A.A. Bessudnov (2025)
An overview of fossil mammalian remains from the Upper Palaeolithic site Kostenki 17 (European Russia)
Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS 329(2): 90–133 (in Russian)
doi: https://doi.org/10.31610/trudyzin/2025.329.2.90
https://www.zin.ru/journals/trudyzin/eng/publication.html?id=596
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https://www.zin.ru/journals/trudyzin/doc/vol_329_2/TZ_329_2_Petrova.pdf
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Darío Fidalgo, Antonio Rosas, Antonio Pineda, Iván Ramírez-Pedraza, Sergio Ros-Montoya, David Rodríguez de la Fuente, Lucía López-Polín, Laura Gómez-Morgado, Bienvenido Martínez-Navarro, Elena Moreno-Ribas, Antonio García-Tabernero, Rosa Huguet, Andreu Ollé, Josep Vallverdú & Palmira Saladié (2025)
Multidisciplinary approach to Mammuthus meridionalis from the late-Early Pleistocene archaeological site of Barranc de la Boella (Tarragona, North-East Iberia)
Historical Biology (advance online publication)
https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2025.2551767
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2025.2551767
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/08912963.2025.2551767
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Axel G. Ekström, Fotios Alexandros Karakostis, William D. Snyder & Steven Moran (2025)
Rethinking Hominin Air Sac Loss in Light of Phylogenetically Meaningful Evidence
Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews 34(3): e70019
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.70019
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/evan.70019
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/evan.70019
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Florian Bouchet, Clément Zanolli, Josep Fortuny, Salvador Moyà-Solà & David M. Alba (2025)
Further insight into an unnamed, medium-sized crouzeliid pliopithecoid from the Vallès-Penedès Basin (NE Iberian Peninsula)
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 58
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00404-2
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13358-025-00404-2
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LIU Jin-Yi, Zhijie Jack TSENG, JIN Chang-Zhu, ZHENG Long-Ting, SUN Cheng-Kai & TONG Hao-Wen (2025)
Eco-functional divergence of Crocuta and Pachycrocuta: a Huainan specimen reappraisal
Vertebrata Palasiatica (advance online publication)
DOI: 10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.250912
https://www.vertpala.ac.cn/EN/10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.250912
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LI Lu, LI Qiang & WANG Xiao-Ming (2025)
New materials of Exallerix pustulatus (Erinaceidae, Eulipotyphla) from Nei Mongol and other Brachyericinae of China.
Vertebrata Palasiatica (advance online publication)
DOI: 10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.250910
https://www.vertpala.ac.cn/EN/10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.250910
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Nacholameryx baragoiensis gen. et sp. nov.
Brachyodus aequatorialis nacholaensis subsp. nov.
Takehisa Tsubamoto, Yutaka Kunimatsu, Hiroshi Tsujikawa, and Masato Nakatsukasa (2025)
The Anthracotheriidae (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from the Middle Miocene Aka Aiteputh Formation in Nachola, Northern Kenya
Paleontological Research 29(1): 87-107
doi: https://doi.org/10.2517/prpsj.240006
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Rebecca J. Strauch, Jake S. Berv, Danielle Fraser, Nicholas D. Pyenson & Carlos Mauricio Peredo (2025)
Morphological diversity of the cetacean mandibular symphysis coincides with novel modes of aquatic feeding
Paleobiology (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.10061
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Julia Van Orman, Oscar E. Wilson, Angeline Catena, Smruthi Maganti, Federico Anaya, and Darin A. Croft (2025)
New remains and paleoecology of uruguaytheriine astrapotheres (Mammalia) from the Middle Miocene of Bolivia
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 70(3): 581-605
doi:10.4202/app.01235.2024
https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app012352024.html
Free pdf:
https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app70/app012352024.pdf
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Paul Medina-González (2025)
Morphofunctional Spaces from the Astragalus: Exploring Angular Excursions and Mechanical Efficiency in Caraguatypotherium munozi (Notoungulata, Mesotheriidae)
Biology 14(9): 1290
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/biology14091290
https://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/14/9/1290
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Huiwen Liu, Yixin Liu & Yibo Hu (2025)
Mitochondrial Impostors: Prevalence and Impacts of NUMTs on Genetic and Evolutionary Studies in Carnivora
Genome Biology and Evolution, evaf174
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf174
https://academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-article/doi/10.1093/gbe/evaf174/8256405
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Connor J Burgin, Jelle S Zijlstra, Madeleine A Becker, Heru Handika, Jesse M Alston, Jane Widness, Schuyler Liphardt, David G Huckaby & Nathan S Upham (2025)
How many mammal species are there now? Updates and trends in taxonomic, nomenclatural, and geographic knowledge
Journal of Mammalogy, gyaf047
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyaf047
https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jmammal/gyaf047/8253815
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Pierre Cockx, Michael J Benton & Joseph N Keating (2025)
Estimating Ancestral States of Complex Characters: a Case Study on the Evolution of Feathers
Systematic Biology, syaf063
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syaf063
https://academic.oup.com/sysbio/advance-article/doi/10.1093/sysbio/syaf063/8253600
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Klara Widrig, Fabio Alfieri, Pei-Chen Kuo, Helen James and Daniel J. Field (2025)
Quantitative analysis of stem-palaeognath flight capabilities sheds light on ratite dispersal and flight loss
Biology Letters 21(9): 20250320
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0320
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0320
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https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0320
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Alan JD Tennyson, Felix G Marx, Daniel T Ksepka & Daniel B Thomas (2025)
Emperor penguin’s fossil relatives inhabited subtropical waters
Journal of Paleontology (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2025.10162
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Oliver W.M. Rauhut, José Ignacio Canudo, and Diego Castanera (2025)
Revision of the theropod dinosaur Camarillasaurus cirugedae from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian) of Teruel province, Spain.
Palaeontologia Electronica 28(3): a40
doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/1543
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025/5627-revision-of-early-cretaceous-theropod-dinosaur
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https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/pdfs/1543.pdf
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Tone Blakesley, Paige E. dePolo, Dugald A. Ross, Neil D. L. Clark and Stephen L. Brusatte (2025)
Small theropod-dominated dinosaur footprint assemblages in the Middle Jurassic Valtos Sandstone and Kilmaluag Formations on the Isle of Skye, Scotland
Royal Society Open Science 12(9): 251016
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.251016
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.251016
Free pdf:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rsos.251016
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Tom T.P. Van Der Linden, Jonathan J.W. Wallaard, Maarten De Rijke, and René H.B. Fraaije (2025)
The first description of dinosaurian eggshell from the Maastrichtian Lance Formation, Wyoming, North America
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 70(3): 573-579
doi:10.4202/app.01211.2024
https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app012112024.html
Free pdf:
https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app70/app012112024.pdf
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Leah G. Demetriou, Michael J. Benton & Christopher J. Duffin (2025)
Richard Owen’s Dinosauria in context: the rhetoric, politics and legacy of the dinosaurs
Earth Sciences History 44(1): 151–180.
doi: https://doi.org/10.17704/1944-6187-44.1.151
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Gobiazhdarcho tsogtbaatari gen. et sp. nov.
Tsogtopteryx mongoliensis gen. et sp. nov.
R. V. Pêgas, Xuanyu Zhou & Yoshitsugu Kobayashi (2025)
Azhdarchid pterosaur diversity in the Bayanshiree Formation, Upper Cretaceous of the Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
PeerJ 13:e19711
doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19711
https://peerj.com/articles/19711/
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Mauro B.S. Lacerda, Marcelo A. Fernandes & Giuseppe Leonardi (2025)
First pterosaur tracks from Brazil
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 97(Suppl. 1): e20241490
doi: https://doi.org/10.1590/0001-3765202520241490
https://www.scielo.br/j/aabc/a/7QwVgZFkchNfF7bV6h8h86z/?lang=en
Free pdf:
https://www.scielo.br/j/aabc/a/7QwVgZFkchNfF7bV6h8h86z/?format=pdf&lang=en
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David W.E. Hone & Edina Prondvai (2025)
The shape, structure, function, and evolution of the pterosaurian uropatagium
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 97(Suppl. 1): e20250129
doi: https://doi.org/10.1590/0001-3765202520250129
https://www.scielo.br/j/aabc/a/f9YWHKz4HN7BVchqN9fvFtf/abstract/?lang=en
Free pdf:
https://www.scielo.br/j/aabc/a/f9YWHKz4HN7BVchqN9fvFtf/?format=pdf&lang=en
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Flávia Sibele F. Fialho, Rodrigo M. Santucci, Mariana S. Gomes & Dermeval A. Do Carmo (2025)
First report of pterosaur remains from the Lower Cretaceous Quiricó Formation, São Francisco Basin (Minas Gerais), Brazil
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 97(Suppl. 1): : e20241140
doi: https://doi.org/10.1590/0001-3765202520241140
https://www.scielo.br/j/aabc/a/t7jW4khfqCnHFbKHKZCdfzr/abstract/?lang=en
Free pdf:
https://www.scielo.br/j/aabc/a/t7jW4khfqCnHFbKHKZCdfzr/?format=pdf&lang=en
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Renan A.M. Bantim, Esaú V. de Araújo, Artur F.S. Araújo, Flaviana J. de Lima, Juliana M. Sayão & Paulo V. de Oliveira (2025)
Extending the Geographic Range of Pterosaurs in the Araripe Basin: First Record from the Romualdo Formation (Araripe Basin) in Piauí, Brazil
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 97(Suppl. 1): e20250428
doi: https://doi.org/10.1590/0001-3765202520250428
https://www.scielo.br/j/aabc/a/rFDHP376M8JtCz3ppTC8Xqs/abstract/?lang=en
Free pdf:
https://www.scielo.br/j/aabc/a/rFDHP376M8JtCz3ppTC8Xqs/?format=pdf&lang=en
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Yuzheng Ke, Fenglu Han, and Walter G. Joyce (2025)
The first pan-trionychid turtle from the Upper Cretaceous of southern China, with a summary of the turtle succession in the Ganzhou Basin
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 70 (3): 607-612
doi:10.4202/app.01263.2025
https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app012632025.html
Free pdf:
https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app70/app012632025.pdf
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Evangelos Vlachos & Marcelo S. de la Fuente (2025)
Head up its posterior lobe, a reply to Agnolín and Chimento (2025)
Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 131(3): 599-602
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54103/2039-4942/29008
https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/29008
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https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/29008/24724
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Larissa S Arantes, Tom Brown, Diego De Panis, Scott D Whiting, Erina J Young, Erin L LaCasella, Gabriella A Carvajal, Adam Kennedy, Deana Edmunds, Blair P Bentley, Jennifer Balacco, Conor Whelan, Nivesh Jain, Tatiana Tilley, Brian O'Toole, Patrick Traore, Erich D Jarvis, Oliver Berry, Peter H Dutton, Lisa M Komoroske & Camila J Mazzoni (2025)
Haplotype-resolved reference genomes of the sea turtle clade unveil ultra-syntenic genomes with hotspots of divergence
GigaScience 14: giaf105,
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giaf105
https://academic.oup.com/gigascience/article/doi/10.1093/gigascience/giaf105/8257187
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Qiling Liu, Long Cheng, Thomas L Stubbs, Zichen Fang, Li Tian, Chunbo Yan & Michael J Benton (2025)
Ontogenetic dietary partitioning in a Triassic sauropterygian: implications from a new juvenile specimen of Brevicaudosaurus jiyangshanensis (Reptilia: Diapsida)
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 205(1): zlaf126
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf126
https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/205/1/zlaf126/8255631
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Javier García-Guerrero, Fredy Parra Ruge, German A. Prieto & Edwin-Alberto Cadena (2025)
Evidence of large pliosaurids in the Late Valanginian of Colombia
Cretaceous Research 106235
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2025.106235
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667125001582
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Pavel Barták, Martin Ivanov & Boris Ekrt (2025)
The revision of baphetids from the Middle Pennsylvanian of the Czech Republic: Morphology, ontogeny, palaeoecology, and the reassessment of the phylogeny of Baphetoidea
The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70054
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70054
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https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.70054
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Blue Byrnes, John R. Bolt & Arjan Mann (2025)
First occurrence of the urocordylid Ctenerpeton remex from the Mazon Creek Lagerstätte, Illinois, USA
Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology 13: 76-80
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18435/vamp29411
https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/vamp/index.php/VAMP/article/view/29411
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https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/vamp/index.php/VAMP/article/view/29411/21473
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Carlomonnius carnevalei sp. nov.
Bettina Reichenbacher, Alexander F. Bannikov & Dirk Erpenbeck (2025)
Earliest gobioid fishes were coral-reef associated dwarfs: New evidence from the Eocene of Monte Bolca, Italy
Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 23(1): 2546601
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2025.2546601
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2025.2546601
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/14772019.2025.2546601
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John Llewelyn, John A. Long, Richard Cloutier, Alice M. Clement, Giovanni Strona, Frédérik Saltré, Michael S.Y. Lee, Brian Choo, Kate Trinajstic, Olivia Vanhaesebroucke, Austin Fitzpatrick & Corey J.A. Bradshaw (2025)
Trait-space disparity in fish communities spanning 380 million years from the Late Devonian to present
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 113294
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.113294
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018225005796
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Harry J. Jerison, Catherine M. Early, Andrew A. Farke & Ashley C. Morhardt (2025)
Digitized endocasts and brains: a perspective on measurements and historical analyses of the evolution of 172 fossil and extant amniote specimens
PeerJ 13:e19826
doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19826
https://peerj.com/articles/19826/
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Aurélie Hintermann, Christopher C. Bolt, M. Brent Hawkins, Guillaume Valentin, Lucille Lopez-Delisle, Madeline M. Ryan, Sandra Gitto, Paula Barrera Gómez, Bénédicte Mascrez, Thomas A. Mansour, Tetsuya Nakamura, Matthew P. Harris, Neil H. Shubin & Denis Duboule (2025)
Co-option of an ancestral cloacal regulatory landscape during digit evolution
Nature (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09548-0
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41586-025-09548-0
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Madison Tripp, Jasmina Wiemann, Luke Brosnan, William D. A. Rickard, Vivi Vajda, Michael Ernst Böttcher, Paul F. Greenwood & Kliti Grice (2025)
Mineralization Controls Informative Biomarker Preservation Associated With Soft Part Fossilization in Deep Time
Gebiology 23(5): e70030
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/gbi.70030
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gbi.70030
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gbi.70030
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Xavier Delclòs, Enrique Peñalver, Carlos Jaramillo, Edwin Cadena, César Menor-Salván, José Luís Román, Rafael Francisco Castaño-Cardona, David Peris, Marcelo Carvalho, Daniela Quiroz-Cabascango, Mónica R. Carvalho, Patrick Blomenkemper, Fabiany Herrera, Patricio Santamarina, Maxime Santer, Galo Carrera & Mónica M. Solórzano-Kraemer (2025)
Cretaceous amber of Ecuador unveils new insights into South America’s Gondwanan forests
Communications Earth & Environment 6: 745
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02625-2
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02625-2
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Leticia A. Castillo Brache (2025)
Parachute Science in Paleontology as Distributive Epistemic Injustice
Philosophy of Science (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/psa.2025.10149
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Saini Samim, Hayden Dalton, David Phillips, and Janet Hergt (2025)
High-resolution tephrochronology resolves stratigraphic complexities in archaeologically significant Nariokotome tuffs, Turkana Basin
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122(38): e2424142122
doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2424142122
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2424142122
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https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2424142122
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Niels Meijer, Katharina Methner, Nikki M. Seymour, Miguel Bernecker, Jens Fiebig, Silke Voigt, C. Page Chamberlain & Andreas Mulch (2025)
Oligocene cooling in the North American cordillera (SW Montana, USA) revealed by dual clumped isotope thermometry
Earth and Planetary Science Letters 671: 119618
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2025.119618
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X25004169
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Ines Galović, Đurđica Pezelj, Renata Lukić, Katja Mužek, Krešimir Petrinjak, Marija Horvat & Vlasta Ćosović (2025)
Record of Mid-Eocene Warming Events in the Istrian Paleogene Basin, Neotethys (Outer Dinarides, Croatia)
Geosciences 15(9): 366
doi: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/9/366
https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences15090366
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Arianny P. Storari, Frederico F. Salles, João Luiz Guedes da Fonseca, Antonio Álamo Feitosa Saraiva & Taissa Rodrigues (2025)
Taphonomy of aquatic insects from the Crato Formation Lagerstätte (Aptian, Lower Cretaceous) under an actualistic look.
PLoS One 20(9): e0331656.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0331656
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0331656
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Ana Julia Sagasti, Sophie Burne, Jeremy Wyman & Alexander J. Hetherington (2025)
Decay stages of Jurassic wood debris from Scotland: evidence for the coevolution of fungal rot, arthropods and the nurse log strategy
New Phytologist (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70515
https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.70515
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https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/nph.70515
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Giulia Del Manzo, Benoît Caron, Benoît Villemant, Anne Le Friant, Ana Alves, Annachiara Bartolini, Franck Bassinot, Eva Moreno & François Baudin (2025)
Revisiting the Youngest Toba Tuff Super-Eruption: A high resolution cryptotephra perspective from the Andaman Sea
Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 108447
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2025.108447
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0377027325001830
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