Mystacina nymphe + Jirahgorgon ceto + Doolysaurus + Indosinosuchus peninsularensis + Wadiichthys + more free pdfs
Ben Creisler
Ben Creisler
I hope all are safe and well.
Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:
Manuel Dominguez-Rodrigo, Enrique Baquedano, Abel Moclan, David Uribelarrea, Jose Angel Corre-Cano, Fernando Diez-Martin, Alejandro Velazquez-Tello, Elia Organista, Eduardo Mendez-Quintas, Marina Vegara-Riquelme, Agness Gidna & Audax Mabulla (2026)
Earliest evidence of elephant butchery at Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) reveals the evolutionary impact of early human megafaunal exploitation
eLife 14: RP108298
doi: https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.108298.5
https://elifesciences.org/articles/108298
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Hajar ALICHANE, Philipp GUNZ, Robert M. G. MARTIN, Hélène COQUEUGNIOT, Mohamed EL HAJRAOUI, Gregorio OXILIA & Jean-Jacques HUBLIN (2026)
Comparative analysis of the enamel-dentine junction of the lower molars among late Middle Stone Age hominins from northwestern Africa
in HUBLIN J.-J., MOUNIER A. & TEYSSANDIER N. (eds), Lucy’s Heirs – Tribute to Yves CoppensLucy’s Heirs – Tribute to Yves Coppens.
Comptes Rendus Palevol 25(5): 77-98.
doi: https://doi.org/10.5852/cr-palevol2026v25a5
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/comptes-rendus-palevol/25/5
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Andion Arteaga-Brieba, Marina Mosquera & Andreu Ollé (2026)
A matter of choice: Raw material specialisation at the Middle Pleistocene kill-butchering site of Gran Dolina TD10.2 (Atapuerca, Spain)
Quaternary International 765: 110221
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2026.110221
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1040618226001072
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Natalia Abellán-Beltrán, Juan Marín-Hernando, Federico Bernaldo de Quirós & Alberto Mingo-Álvarez (2026)
New insights into Neanderthal subsistence strategies in northern Iberia: The faunal assemblage of level XXc of El Castillo Cave (Cantabria, Spain)
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 18: 78
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-026-02428-2
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-026-02428-2
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A. Rosas, A. García-Tabernero, J.A. Alarcón & J.F. Pastor (2026)
A review of European Middle Pleistocene hominin evolution
Quaternary Science Reviews 381: 109951
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2026.109951
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379126001605
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Amanda Merino-Pelaz & Lucía Cobo-Sánchez (2026)
A comparative multivariate analysis of spatial clustering in Neanderthal and anatomically modern human occupations
Human Evolution 213: 103825
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2026.103825
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248426000199
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Todd A Surovell, César Méndez, Juan-Luis García, Christopher Lüthgens, Jay M Thompson & Claudio Latorre (2026)
A mid-Holocene age for Monte Verde challenges the timeline of human colonization of South America
Science 391(6791): 1283-1288
doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adw9217
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adw9217
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https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/science.adw9217
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Lorenzo Scribano, Fabrice Lihoreau, Alexandra Houssaye, Clarisse Nekoulnang Djetounako & Jean-Renaud Boisserie (2026)
Postcranial anatomy of the Miocene hippopotamoids of Toros-Menalla, Chad
Journal of Anatomy (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.70135
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.70135
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joa.70135
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Hayate Takeuchi and Takashi Hayakawa (2026)
Pressure-tolerant evolution in rhodopsin of deep-diving whales
Genome Biology and Evolution, evag068
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag068
https://academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-article/doi/10.1093/gbe/evag068/8524885
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S S Zalapa, J M Vargas Aldaco, S Guerrero-Vázquez, F J López Chávez & E R Sánchez (2026)
Unsupervised wing-bone morphogroups in bats reveal phylogenetic and functional patterns
Integrative Organismal Biology, obag007
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/iob/obag007
https://academic.oup.com/iob/advance-article/doi/10.1093/iob/obag007/8512272
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Mystacina nymphe sp. nov.
Suzanne J. Hand, Michael Archer, Robin M. D. Beck, Vanesa L. De Pietri, Steven W. Salisbury, R. Paul Scofield, Alan J. D. Tennyson, Jennifer P. Worthy & Trevor H. Worthy (2026)
New Miocene mystacinid bat fossils from New Zealand, including a small new species of the endemic genus Mystacina (Chiroptera: Noctilionoidea: Mystacinidae)
Alcheringa (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2026.2614525
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03115518.2026.2614525
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/03115518.2026.2614525
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Cheng-Han Sun, Deep Shubhra Biswas, Yi-Lu Liaw, Yi-Yang Cho, Naoki Kohno & Cheng-Hsiu Tsai (2026)
The Southernmost Zalophus in the Western North Pacific: The First Pinniped (Carnivora, Pinnipedia) fossil from Taiwan
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e2634021
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2026.2634021
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2026.2634021
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Alessio Iannucci, Dario Stefanelli, Jacopo Conti, Maria Marino & Raffaele Sardella (2026)
Occurrence of Crocuta (Carnivora, Hyaenidae) from a potential Middle Pleistocene site at Pirro Nord (Apricena, southern Italy)
Journal of Quaternary Science (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.70065
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jqs.70065
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John A. Moretti & John Young (2026)
Novel occurrences of Late Pleistocene megafauna from Bender’s Cave on the Edwards Plateau of Texas may include evidence of the last interglacial
Quaternary Research (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2025.10071
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Juan Yataco, Karina Vanesa Chichkoyan, Hugo Gabriel Nami, Nicole R. Fuller and Jane Wheeler (2026)
Late Pleistocene Fauna of Pikimachay Cave, Ayacucho Basin, Perú: New Insights from Fossil Remains
Fossil Studies 4(1): 7
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/fossils4010007
https://www.mdpi.com/2813-6284/4/1/7
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Jirahgorgon ceto sp. nov.
Phorcyidae fam. nov.
Zanildo Macungo, Ricardo Araújo, Bruce S. Rubidge, Michael O. Day, Kathleen N. Dollman & Julien Benoit (2026)
Evolutionary radiation of large-bodied gorgonopsians from the lower Abrahamskraal formation of South Africa
The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70181
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70181
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https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.70181
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Erin S. Lund, Frederik P. Wolvaardt, Roger M. H. Smith, Jaganmoy Jodder & Julien Benoit (2026)
Redescription of the Triassic cynodont Cistecynodon parvus and reassessment of its phylogeny
The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70179
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70179
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https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.70179
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Klara Widrig & Daniel J. Field (2026)
New insights into the postcranial morphology of Lithornis vulturinus from the Eocene London Clay
bioRxiv 2026.03.17.711321 (preprint)
doi: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.03.17.711321
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.17.711321v1
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Doolysaurus huhmini gen. et sp. nov.,
Jongyun Jung, Minguk Kim, Hyemin Jo, &Julia A. Clarke (2026)
A new dinosaur species from Korea and its implications for early-diverging neornithischian diversity.
Fossil Record 29(1): 87-113.
doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.29.178152
https://fr.pensoft.net/article/178152/
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Chun-Yu Su, Jun-Yang Liao, Hsiao-Jou Wu, Kuan-Yu Chou, Ching Chen, Ming-Tsang Lee & Tzu-Ruei Yang (2026)
Heat transfer in a realistic clutch reveals a lower efficiency in incubation of oviraptorid dinosaurs than of modern birds
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 14:1351288
doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2026.1351288
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/ecology-and-evolution/articles/10.3389/fevo.2026.1351288/full
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Rodrigo Temp Müller (2026)
Widespread distribution of large silesaurids evidenced by a new record from the Middle Triassic of southwest Gondwana
The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70190
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70190
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https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.70190
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Indosinosuchus peninsularensis sp. nov.
Komsorn Lauprasert, Apirut Nilpanapan, Jeremy E. Martin, Julien Claude, Kamonlak Wongko, Kantanat Trakunweerayut, Nuntida Dobutr, Sita Manitkoon, Supanut Bhuttarach & Thanit Nonsrirach (2026)
A new teleosaurid (Crocodylomorpha, Thalattosuchia) from the Sibumasu Terrane of Southeast Asia and a taxonomic reassessment of Indosinosuchus.
PeerJ 14:e20944
doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20944
https://peerj.com/articles/20944/
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Wadiichthys anbaawyi gen. et sp. nov.
Gebely A. Abu El-Kheir, Ahmed Marzouk, Luigi Capasso, Essam Zahran, Atef M. Kasem, Asmaa Kamel, Mohamed K. Mousa, and Abdelhamid Elbsebeshi (2026)
A new saurodontid fish from the Late Cretaceous of the Western Desert, Egypt
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 71(1): 85-94
doi:10.4202/app.01277.2025
https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app012772025.html
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https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app71/app012772025.pdf
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Tao Luo, Ming-Yuan Xiao, Mei Liao, Jia-Jia Wang, Ning Xiao & Jiang Zhou (2026)
Evolutionary history of Chinese cavefishes parallels paleogeoclimatic and river capture processes
Communications Biology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-026-09881-8
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-026-09881-8
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Olivier Lambert, John R. Stewart, Stephen Louwye, Luc De Coninck, Mark Bosselaers, Lucile Crété, Stijn Goolaerts, Christophe Mallet, and Frederik H. Mollen (2026)
Evidence for different shark species feeding on a diminutive right whale and a relative of the beluga in the Early Pliocene of the southern North Sea
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 71(1): 69-84
doi:10.4202/app.01297.2025
https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app012972025.html
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https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app71/app012972025.pdf
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Feifei Zhang, Guang-Yi Wei, Pierre Maffre, Ziheng Li, Jianlin Zhou, Alexandre Pohl, Yi- Bo Lin, Maya Elrick, Keyi Cheng, Philip A E Pogge von Strandmann & Shu-zhong Shen (2026)
Lithium Isotope Evidence for Enhanced Continental Weathering Triggering the Late Paleozoic Greenhouse-to-Icehouse Climate Transition
National Science Review, nwag168
https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwag168
https://academic.oup.com/nsr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nsr/nwag168/8526391
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Sergio Pérez-Montero, Jorge Alvarez-Solas, Jan Swierczek-Jereczek, Daniel Moreno-Parada, Alexander Robinson & Marisa Montoya (2026)
Exploring the Mid-Pleistocene transition with a simple physical model
Climate of the Past 22(3): 625-646
doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-625-2026
https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/22/625/2026/
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https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/22/625/2026/cp-22-625-2026.pdf
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Jaemin Lee, Kyung Soo Kim & Cindy V. Looy (2026)
An Early Cretaceous temperate intermontane savanna from South Korea, and its biogeographic implications
Cretaceous Research 106387
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2026.106387
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667126000765
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Yuka Kobayashi, Brendan Harris, Jenn Wagner, Lisa White, Nicholas Spano, Mandy Abel-Zurstadt, Katrina Lepore & Taormina Lepore (2026)
Neurodivergent perspectives in geoscience: Reflections from the development of paleontology museum educational materials
Journal of Geoscience Education (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10899995.2026.2637819
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10899995.2026.2637819
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/10899995.2026.2637819
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