Yunxian Homo cranium + Kunpengornis + Joaquinraptor + Cariocecus + Galgadraco + Makrodactylus + Thikarisuchus + Cattoiemys + Sclerocephalus megalorhinus + Argyropelecus iranicus + more free pdfs

[Ben Creisler]

Ben Creisler
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Some recent or not yet mentioned vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:

Xiaobo Feng, Qiyu Yin, Feng Gao, Dan Lu, Qin Fang, Yilu Feng, Xuchu Huang, Chen Tan, Hanwen Zhou, Qiang Li, Chi Zhang, Chris Stringer, and Xijun Ni (2025)
The phylogenetic position of the Yunxian cranium elucidates the origin of Homo longi and the Denisovans
Science 389(6767): 1320-1324
doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ado9202
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado9202

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https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/science.ado9202

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Nicole Torres-Tamayo, Caroline VanSickle, Mirella A. Woodert, Martin Haeusler & Stefan Schlager (2025)
Statistical shape modelling as a novel reconstruction tool in palaeoanthropology: A case study on fossil pelves
Methods in Ecology and Evolution (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.70154
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.70154

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https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/2041-210X.70154

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Alice Leplongeon, Eslem Ben Arous, Isis Mesfin, Hubert Forestier, Xavier Gallet, Christophe Griggo, Simon Puaud, Anne-Marie Sémah, Agueda Vialou, David Pleurdeau & Antoine Lourdeau (2025)
The Last Glacial Maximum in the Tropics: Human Responses to Global Change, 30–10 ka
Journal of World Prehistory 38: 7
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-025-09197-1
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10963-025-09197-1

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Cajus G. Diedrich (2025)
Middle Paleolithic Neanderthal Open-Air Camp and Hyena Den Westeregeln (D)—Competition for Prey in a Mammoth Steppe Environment of Northern Germany (Central Europe)
Quaternary 8(4): 52
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/quat8040052
https://www.mdpi.com/2571-550X/8/4/52

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Rosa M. Albert, Juan Ochando, Ivan Martini, Carlos Alberto Rivera-Rondón, Jacopo Crezzini, Clarissa Dominici, Vincenzo Spagnolo, Paolo Boscato, Annamaria Ronchitelli, Francesco Boschin & Francesco Bernaet (2025)
The palaeoenvironmental context of MIS 3 and the use of plants by Neanderthal groups in southern Italy: results from the Riparo l’Oscurusciuto site
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 67: 105399
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105399
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X25004328

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Not yet mentioned special issue with free pdfs:

Annals of Human Biology 52(Supp. 1) The Growth and Development of Sub-Adult Hominins: Multidisciplinary Approaches. Guest edited by Debra Bolter, Noël Cameron and Ellen Demerath
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/iahb20/52/sup1

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Debra R. Bolter, Noel Cameron, Christopher A. Wolfe, Julia C. Boughner, Patrick Mahoney, Lawrence Schell, Tesla A. Monson, Keneiloe Molopyane, Lee Berger, Robin Bernstein, Steven E. Churchill, Sarah Elton, John Hawks, Angeline B. Leece, Jill Pruetz & Kyra E. Stull (2025)
Palaeoanthropology and the study of pre-adult fossil remains
Annals of Human Biology 52(sup1): 2512021
https://doi.org/10.1080/03014460.2025.2512021
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03014460.2025.2512021

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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/03014460.2025.2512021

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Debra R. Bolter & Bernhard Zipfel (2025)
Catalogue of immature hominin fossils from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Annals of Human Biology 52(sup1): 2512026
https://doi.org/10.1080/03014460.2025.2512026
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03014460.2025.2512026

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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/03014460.2025.2512026

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Tesla A. Monson, Andrew P. Weitz & Marianne F. Brasil (2025)
Molar proportions, endocranial volume, and insular nanism in fossil Homo
Annals of Human Biology 52(sup1): 2512027
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03014460.2025.2512027
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03014460.2025.2512027

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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/03014460.2025.2512027

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Christopher A. Wolfe, Julia C. Boughner & Kyra E. Stull (2025)
What use are ontogenetic data anyway? Challenges in multivariate modelling of primate tooth formation
Annals of Human Biology 52(sup1): 2512024
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03014460.2025.2512024
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03014460.2025.2512024

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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/03014460.2025.2512024

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Marianne Dehasque, Tom van der Valk, J. Camilo Chacón-Duque, Laura Termes, Petter Larsson, Hannah M. Moots, Florentine Tubbesing, Juliana Larsdotter, Gonzalo Oteo-García, Kelsey Moreland, Hans van Essen, Victoria Arbour, Grant Keddie, Michael P. Richards, David Díez-del-Molino, Peter D. Heintzman, Adrian Lister and Love Dalén (2025)
Genomic and morphological analysis reveals long-term mammoth hybridization in British Columbia, Canada
Biology Letters 21(9): 20250305
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0305
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0305

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https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0305

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Amir Hakim Amiruddin, Lim Tze Tshen, Alexandra van der Geer, Kira E. Westaway, Chiang Hongwei, Ru Smith, Hijaz Kamal Hasnan, Norliza Ibrahim, Mohd Azmi Abdul Razak, Nguyen Thi Mai Huong, Nguyen Anh Tuan, and Ros Fatihah Muhammad
The first late middle Pleistocene Stegodon (Proboscidea, Stegodontidae) evidence found in Peninsular Malaysia.
Palaeontologia Electronica 28(3): a43
doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/1432
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025/5637-stegodon-in-peninsular-malaysia

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https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/pdfs/1432.pdf

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John A. F. Wendt (2025)
Wisent in the Walled Garden: European Bison Alternated Between Refuge and Recovery
Global Change Biology 31(9): e70508
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70508
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.70508

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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gcb.70508

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Pedro Castaños-Ugarte, Aitziber Suárez-Bilbao & Xabier Murelaga-Bereicua (2025)
A complete hyoid bone of a woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) from the Late Pleistocene at Artazu VIII (Gipuzkoa, northern Iberian Peninsula)
MUNIBE Antropologia-Arkeologia 76 (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.21630/maa.2025.76.06
https://www.aranzadi.eus/fileadmin/docs/Munibe/maa20257606.pdf

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Anneke H. van Heteren (2025)
Exploring dietary adaptations in Ursus minimus: a 3D geometric morphometric analysis of the mandible
Boreas (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.70036
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bor.70036

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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bor.70036

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Kunpengornis anhuimusei gen. et sp. nov.

Jiandong Huang, Xuri Wang, Andrea Cau, Lei Mao, Yichuan Liu & Yang Wang (2025)
A new euornithine from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian) of China reveals the first radiation of fish-eating birds
Cretaceous Research 106244
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2025.106244
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667125001673
 
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Joaquinraptor casali gen. et sp. nov.

Lucio M. Ibiricu, Matthew C. Lamanna, Bruno N. Alvarez, Ignacio A. Cerda, Julieta L. Caglianone, Noelia V. Cardozo, Marcelo Luna & Rubén D. Martínez (2025)
Latest Cretaceous megaraptorid theropod dinosaur sheds light on megaraptoran evolution and palaeobiology
Nature Communications 16: 8298
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-63793-5
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-63793-5

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Samantha L. Beeston, Daniela Schwarz, Paul Upchurch, Paul M. Barrett, Patrick Asbach, Philip D. Mannion (2025)
New information on Late Triassic sauropodomorph dinosaurs provides support for the independent acquisition of postcranial skeletal pneumaticity in avemetatarsalian lineages
Journal of Anatomy (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.70045
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.70045

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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joa.70045

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Cariocecus bocagei gen. et sp. nov.

Filippo Bertozzo, Bruno Camilo, Ricardo Araújo, Fabio Manucci, José Carlos Kullberg, Donald G. Cerio, Victor Feijó de Carvalho, Pedro Marrecas, Silvério D. Figueiredo & Pascal Godefroit (2025)
Cariocecus bocagei, a new basal hadrosauroid from the Lower Cretaceous of Portugal
Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 23(1): 2536347
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2025.2536347
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2025.2536347

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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/14772019.2025.2536347

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Runjie Yuan & David M. Kennedy (2025)
The exposure and preservation of dinosaur footprints on intertidal shore platforms
Journal of Coastal Conservation 29(5): 47
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11852-025-01139-5
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11852-025-01139-5

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Galgadraco zephyrius gen. et sp. nov.

Ariovaldo A. Giaretta, Bruno A. Navarro, Thiago S. Marinho & R. Vargas Pêgas (2025)
The first pterosaur from the Bauru Group: an azhdarchid from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil
Papers in Palaeontology 11(5): e70039
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.70039
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.70039

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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/spp2.70039

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Makrodactylus oligodontus gen. and sp. nov.

David W.E. Hone, René Lauer, Bruce Lauer, and Frederik Spindler (2025)
A new non-pterodactyloid monofenestratan pterosaur from the Mörnsheim Formation of southern Germany.
Palaeontologia Electronica 28(3): a42
doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/1542
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025/5661-a-new-german-monofenestratan-pterosaur

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https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/pdfs/1542.pdf

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Thikarisuchus xenodentes gen. et sp. nov.

Harrison J. Allen, Eric W. Wilberg, Alan H. Turner & David J. Varricchio (2025)
A new, diminutive, heterodont neosuchian from the Vaughn Member of the Blackleaf Formation (Cenomanian), southwest Montana, and implications for the paleoecology of heterodont neosuchians
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e2542185
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2025.2542185
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2025.2542185

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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/02724634.2025.2542185

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C. Henrik Woolley, David J. Bottjer & Nathan D Smith (2025)
Taphonomic megabiases constrain phylogenetic information in the squamate fossil record
Paleobiology (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.10060
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/paleobiology/article/taphonomic-megabiases-constrain-phylogenetic-information-in-the-squamate-fossil-record/8632018C57CB8AE1E4C294DC804C2389

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Cattoiemys gen. nov. for “Podocnemis” argentinensis

Marcelo S. de la Fuente, Ignacio J. Maniel, Joaquin P. Bogado, Pablo Gonzalez Ruiz & Claudia I. Galli (2025)
Taxonomic reassessment of “Podocnemis” argentinensis (Testudines, Pleurodira) from the Maíz Gordo Formation (late Paleocene) with a description of new specimens from the western flank of Sierra del Mal Paso, Province of Jujuy, Argentina
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 60
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00390-5
https://sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s13358-025-00390-5

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Benjamin P. Kear, Roy Nohra, Johan Lindgren, Márton Rabi & Mohamad Bazzi (2025)
Cretaceous sea turtle soft tissues clarify ancestry of scale loss in chelonioids
iScience (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.113641
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004225019029

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Elisa H. London, Dennis F.A.E. Voeten, Henning Blom & Torsten M. Scheyer (2025)
The braincase anatomy of Simosaurus gaillardoti (Diapsida: Sauropterygia) revealed with X-ray micro-computed tomography.
PeerJ 13: e19932
doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19932
https://peerj.com/articles/19932/

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Eurhinosaurus mistelgauensis sp. nov.

Gaël E. Spicher, Feiko Miedema, Jelle Heijne & Nicole Klein (2025)
A new Eurhinosaurus (Ichthyosauria) species from the Lower Jurassic (Toarcian) of Mistelgau (Bavaria, Southern Germany).
Fossil Record 28(2): 249-291.
doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.28.154203
https://fr.pensoft.net/article/154203/list/9/

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Gabriel Mestriner, Gregory F. Funston, Júlio C. A. Marsola, Sterling J. Nesbitt, Max C. Langer, David C. Evans and Aaron R. H. LeBlanc (2025)
Rethinking thecodonty: the influence of two centuries of comparative dental anatomy on our understanding of tooth evolution
Biology Letters 21(9): 20250316
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0316
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0316

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https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0316

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Sclerocephalus megalorhinus n. sp.  
Sclerocephalus odernheimensis n. sp.

Rainer R. Schoch (2025)
Morphological disparity, stratigraphic distribution and evolutionary history of the temnospondyl Sclerocephalus from the late Palaeozoic of Germany
Palaeodiversity 18(1): 151-196
doi: https://doi.org/10.18476/pale.v18.a7
https://bioone.org/journals/Palaeodiversity/volume-18/issue-1/pale.v18.a7/Morphological-disparity-stratigraphic-distribution-and-evolutionary-history-of-the-temnospondyl/10.18476/pale.v18.a7.full

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María José Navarrete Méndez, Sina S Amini, Juan Carlos Santos, Jacob Saal, Marvalee H Wake, Santiago R Ron & Rebecca D Tarvin (2025)
Caecilians maintain a functional long-wavelength-sensitive cone opsin gene despite signatures of relaxed selection and more than 200 million years of fossoriality
Evolution, qpaf190
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpaf190
https://academic.oup.com/evolut/advance-article/doi/10.1093/evolut/qpaf190/8262910

 
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Plamen S. Andreev, Min Zhu, Lars Brakenhoff, Qiang Li, Wenjin Zhao, Lijian Peng, Federica Marone, Richard P. Dearden and Martin Rücklin (2025)
The shoulder girdle of early chondrichthyans grew by skeletal remodelling
Biology Letters 21(9): 20250411
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0411
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0411

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https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0411

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Kate Trinajstic, Zerina Johanson, Carole Burrow, Moya Meredith Smith, John Long, Alice Clement, Brian Choo, Anton Maksimenko and Vincent Dupret (2025)
New specimens of the arthrodire Bullerichthys fascidens Dennis and Miles 1980 show incipient site-specific osteichthyan-like tooth addition and resorption
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 59
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00405-1
https://sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s13358-025-00405-1

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Argyropelecus iranicus n. sp.
Argyropelecus zagrosensis n. sp.

Lorenzo Ridolfi, Ali Bahrami, Mehdi Yazdi, Ane Elise Schrøder, Giuseppe Marramà, Giorgio Carnevale (2025)
The deep-sea hatchetfish Argyropelecus (Sternoptychidae) in the Eocene of Iran: description and phylogenetic relationships of two new species from the Pabdeh Formation
Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 131(3): 603-629.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54103/2039-4942/29039
https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/29039

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https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/29039/24754

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Iris Feichtinger, Anna E. Weinmann, Mathias Harzhauser, Werner Schwarzhans, Reinhard Golebiowski and Jürgen Pollerspöck (2025)
Deep-marine elasmobranchs from the Badenian (Langhian, Middle Miocene) of the Central Paratethys of Austria
Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences 118(1): 205–217
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17738/ajes.2025.0012
https://sciendo.com/article/10.17738/ajes.2025.0012

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Kelsey C Brock and Jared Bernard (2025)
The cumulative consequences of multispecies invasions and the great shuffle of biodiversity
BioScience, biaf152
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaf152
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biaf152/8261310

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Alan L. Titus, Randall B. Irmis, Scott D. Sampson, Lindsay E. Zanno, L. Barry Albright, Joseph J.W. Sertich, Eric M. Roberts, and Andrew A. Farke (2025)
Twenty-Five Years of Paleontological Research in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah: Public Lands in Service to Science and the Public
Parks Stewardship Forum 41(3): 402-424
doi: https://doi.org/10.5070/P5.52866
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4p99h1nq

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https://escholarship.org/content/qt4p99h1nq/qt4p99h1nq.pdf

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Alexis Balembois, Alexandre Pohl, Bertrand Lefebvre, Thomas Servais, Daniel J. Lunt, Paul J. Valdes & Grégory Beaugrand (2025)
Unravelling the drivers of marine biodiversity across the Phanerozoic
Nature Communications 16: 8498
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-63428-9
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-63428-9

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Nicola S Heckeberg, Alessio Capobianco, Basanta Khakurel, Gustavo Darlim & Sebastian Höhna (2025)
Practical Guide and Review of Fossil Tip-Dating in Phylogenetics
Systematic Biology, syaf050
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syaf050
https://academic.oup.com/sysbio/advance-article/doi/10.1093/sysbio/syaf050/8262818

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Takahito Mitsui, Peter Ditlevsen, Niklas Boers & Michel Crucifix (2025)
100 kyr ice age cycles as a timescale-matching problem
Earth System Dynamics 16(5): 1569–1584
doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-16-1569-2025
https://esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/1569/2025/

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Teal R. Riley, David I.M. Macdonald, David J. Cantrill, J. Alistair Crame & Michael L. Curtis (2025)
The geology of Alexander Island (Antarctic Peninsula): a new 1:500 000 geological map
Antarctic Science (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102025100321
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antarctic-science/article/geology-of-alexander-island-antarctic-peninsula-a-new-1500-000-geological-map/955B4AD5506E28503D360EC2E1F33F18