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A female woolly mammoth’s lifetime movements end in an ancient Alaskan hunter-gatherer camp: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk0818?fbclid=IwAR3Qw_gdvugnxeesncACEa_Cnp6tmp1OHo5MZzPVEND05Hph1B7ok6_qoXE

A new titanosaurian sauropod, Gandititan cavocaudatus gen. et sp. nov., from the Late Cretaceous of southern China: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2023.2293038

Early Oligocene kelp holdfasts and stepwise evolution of the kelp ecosystem in the North Pacific: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2317054121

The coevolution of rostral keratin and tooth distribution in dinosaurs: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.1713

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Did gorgonopsians survive the end-Permian “Great Dying”? A re-appraisal of three gorgonopsian specimens (Therapsida, Theriodontia) reported from the Triassic Lystrosaurus declivis Assemblage Zone, Karoo Basin, South Africa: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031018224000336

Weighing in on miniaturization: New body mass estimates for Triassic eucynodonts and analyses of body size evolution during the cynodont-mammal transition: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.25377?fbclid=IwAR3hDxJIBvnroq0Ldz-Bz8vMCMaWn34_oYGZG_3xpChaVHyzRDxAKAc69V4#

Low predator competition indicates occupation of macro-predatory niches by giant Miocene reptiles at La Venta, Colombia: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018223004613#bb0080

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Orbit size and estimated eye size in dinosaurs and other archosaurs and their implications for the evolution of visual capabilities: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2023.2295518

The osteology of Shuvosaurus inexpectatus, a shuvosaurid pseudosuchian from the Upper Triassic Post Quarry, Dockum Group of Texas, USA: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.25376

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1.63-billion-year-old multicellular eukaryotes from the Chuanlinggou Formation in North China: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk3208

A new oviraptorosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the end-Maastrichtian Hell Creek Formation of North America: journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0294901

Cranial osteology and paleoneurology of Tarjadia ruthae: An erpetosuchid pseudosuchian from the Triassic Chañares Formation (late Ladinian-?early Carnian) of Argentina: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.25382

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Different wildfire types promoted two-step terrestrial plant community change across the Triassic-Jurassic transition: www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2024.1329533/full

Stratigraphic architecture of the Belly River Group (Campanian, Cretaceous) in the plains of southern Alberta: Revisions and updates to an existing model and implications for correlating dinosaur-rich strata: journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0292318

Species occurrences of Mio-Pliocene horses (Equidae) from Florida: sampling, ecology, or both?: www.cambridge.org/core/journals/paleobiology/article/species-occurrences-of-miopliocene-horses-equidae-from-florida-sampling-ecology-or-both/E80C2C85AB405EB4EF4DB843999076C7

The first stegosaurian dinosaur from Gansu Province, China: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195667124000259

The redescription of Malerisaurus robinsonae (Archosauromorpha: Allokotosauria) from the Upper Triassic lower Maleri Formation, Pranhita-Godavari Basin, India: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ar.25392

All the Earth will not remember: how geographic gaps structure the record of diversity and extinction: www.cambridge.org/core/journals/paleobiology/article/all-the-earth-will-not-remember-how-geographic-gaps-structure-the-record-of-diversity-and-extinction/068CAE5A0E3890F301179A494108E452

Patch reefs with scleractinian corals and layered domical and bulbous growth forms (calcified sponges?) in the upper Maastrichtian and lowermost Palaeocene platform carbonates, Adriatic islands of Brač and Hvar (Croatia): www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031018224000452

A feeding organ the basihyal and thyrohyal tells which size of prey do true baleen whales (Cetacea, Chaeomysticeti) eat: palaeo-electronica.org/content/2024/5120-whale-hyoid

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A new early-diverging probainognathian cynodont and a revision of the occurrence of cf. Aleodon from the Chañares Formation, northwestern Argentina: New clues on the faunistic composition of the latest Middle–?earliest Late Triassic Tarjadia Assemblage Zone

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New materials of Pliorhinus ringstroemi from the Linxia Basin (Late Miocene, eastern Asia) and their taxonomical and evolutionary implications: link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10914-023-09698-w

Variation in the sacrum of phytosaurs: New evidence from a partial skeleton of Machaeroprosopus mccauleyi: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.14007

Tusked walruses (Carnivora: Odobenidae) from the Miocene–Pliocene Purisima Formation of Santa Cruz, California (U.S.A.): a new species of the toothless walrus Valenictus and the oldest records of Odobeninae and Odobenini: www.tandfonline.com/doi/figure/10.1080/02724634.2023.2296567?scroll=top&needAccess=true

Phosphatised calcified cyanobacteria at the terminal Ediacaran and the earliest Cambrian transition stage: Response to the paleoenvironment: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031018224000464

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First record of Posnanskytherium (Notoungulata, Toxodontidae) in the late Neogene of eastern Puna, Argentina: link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10914-023-09700-5

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First palynological record for the Lebombo Basin, South Africa with implications for Guadalupian (middle Permian) palaeofloras and palaeoenvironments

www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1342937X24000200

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Evolution of postcanine complexity in Gomphodontia (Therapsida: Cynodontia): anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ar.25386

A “preglacial” giant salamander from Europe: new record from the Late Pliocene of Caucasus: sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/comptes-rendus-palevol/23/3

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Extreme lower jaw elongation in a placoderm reflects high disparity and modularity in early vertebrate evolution

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AN UNUSUAL CIRCUMPOLAR TURTLE (TESTUDINATA: TESTUDINES) FROM THE EARLIEST LATE CRETACEOUS OF PATAGONIA, ARGENTINA: www.ameghiniana.org.ar/index.php/ameghiniana/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/105

A new stegosaur from the late Early Cretaceous of Zuoyun, Shanxi Province, China: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2024.2308214

Static versus dynamic muscle modelling in extinct species: a biomechanical case study of the Australopithecus afarensis pelvis and lower extremity: peerj.com/articles/16821/

New information on paleopathologies in non-avian theropod dinosaurs: a case study on South American abelisaurids: bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-023-02187-x

New theropod remains from the late Barremian (Early Cretaceous) of Eastern Iberian Peninsula: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2024.2308220

Beakiation: how a novel parrot gait expands the locomotor repertoire of living birds: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.231397

Earliest Danian outer neritic elasmobranch assemblages reveal an environmentally controlled faunal turnover at the Cretaceous–Palaeogene boundary in the northern Tethyan Realm (Austria): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/spp2.1547

New materials of plesiacerathere (Perissodactyla, Rhinocerotidae) from the late Early Miocene of Northern China: peerj.com/articles/16822/

Ecological modeling, biogeography, and phenotypic analyses setting the tiger cats’ hyperdimensional niches reveal a new species: peerj.com/articles/16822/

Beakiation: how a novel parrot gait expands the locomotor repertoire of living birds: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.231397

Morphology of nares associated with stereo-olfaction in baleen whales: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2023.0479

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Elevated evolutionary rates of biting biomechanics reveal patterns of extraordinary craniodental adaptations in some herbivorous dinosaurs

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First record of Protemnodon (Macropodidae: Marsupialia) from Pleistocene lowland New Guinea: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03115518.2024.2304340

The first hadrosaurid trackway from the horseshoe canyon formation (campanian/maastrichtian) of Alberta, Canada: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10420940.2024.2307069

Elevated evolutionary rates of biting biomechanics reveal patterns of extraordinary craniodental adaptations in some herbivorous dinosaurs: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/pala.12689

Postcranial anatomy of Prestosuchus chiniquensis (Archosauria: Loricata) from the Triassic of Brazil: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.25383

Exquisite skeletons of a new transitional plesiosaur fill gap in the evolutionary history of plesiosauroids: www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2024.1341470/abstract

The tympanoperiotic complex of the blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ar.25393

A new genus and species of kekenodontid from the late Oligocene of New Zealand with comments on the evolution of tooth displacement in Cetacea: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03036758.2023.2297696

Devonian sea surface temperature and paleoecology changes constrained by in situ oxygen isotopes of fish fossils: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031018224000488

A nomenclatural note on Mosasaurus hoffmanni (Squamata, Mosasauroidea): www.cambridge.org/core/journals/netherlands-journal-of-geosciences/article/nomenclatural-note-on-mosasaurus-hoffmanni-squamata-mosasauroidea/445D94B04627551DCDF79107A81395B9

Cretaceous pterosaur history, diversity and extinction: www.lyellcollection.org/doi/10.1144/SP544-2023-126

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New record of aquatic snakes (Squamata, Palaeophiidae) from the Paleocene of South America: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2024.2305892?af=R

A large therian mammal from the Late Cretaceous of South America: www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-53156-3

Human membership in the large carnivore guild: Was it always “tooth and claw”?: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950236524000021