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The postcranial skeleton of Amphimoschus Bourgeois, 1873 (Cetartiodactyla, Ruminantia, Pecora) sheds light on its phylogeny and the evolution of the clade Cervoidea: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2024.2386020

Termite activity in the mid-Cretaceous of Australia: palaeo-electronica.org/content/2024/5339-opalized-termite-coprolites

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Native Mammalian Predators Can Depredate Adult Burmese Pythons in Florida

bioone.org/journals/southeastern-naturalist/volume-20/issue-2/058.020.0205/Native-Mammalian-Predators-Can-Depredate-Adult-Burmese-Pythons-in-Florida/10.1656/058.020.0205.short

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A new regime of herbivory from diverse plant–arthropod interactions from the Middle Jurassic of northeastern China

www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031018224005005

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Cranial anatomy of Acynodon adriaticus and extreme durophagous adaptations in Eusuchia (Reptilia: Crocodylomorpha)

anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.25574

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Brazilian fossils reveal homoplasy in the oldest mammalian jaw joint: www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07971-3

A New Tyrant Dinosaur from the Late Campanian of Mexico Reveals a Tribe of Southern Tyrannosaurs: www.mdpi.com/2813-6284/2/4/12

A new gansuid bird (Avialae, Euornithes) from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian) Jiufotang Formation of Jianchang, western Liaoning, China: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667124001873

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Thalattosauria in time and space: a review of thalattosaur spatiotemporal occurrences, presumed evolutionary relationships and current ecological hypotheses: sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s13358-024-00333-6

Skink systematics inside out: Comparative cranial osteology of the New World Mabuyinae: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.25572

Muscle-controlled physics simulations of bird locomotion resolve the grounded running paradox: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ado0936

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Sauropod tail clubs from the Kota Formation (Lower to Middle Jurassic) of India and their implications for early sauropod evolution

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2024.2396814

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Two distinctive, but difficult-to-classify, avian species and a new trogon (Trogoniformes) from the early Eocene London Clay: www.schweizerbart.de/papers/njgpa/detail/prepub/106025/Two_distinctive_but_difficult_to_classify_avian_sp

Morphological innovation and the evolution of hadrosaurid dinosaurs: www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/4D62321E0AE849C957D5D37BC052D666/S0094837319000095a.pdf/div-class-title-morphological-innovation-and-the-evolution-of-hadrosaurid-dinosaurs-div.pdf

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Modified laminar bone did not stop sauropods from achieving large body sizes

(subadult sauropod estimated ~20 m long)

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2024.2396816

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A new “silesaurid” from the oldest dinosauromorph-bearing beds of South America provides insights into the early evolution of bird-line archosaurs: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1342937X24002764

New information on the dentition of Chaohusaurus zhangjiawanensis (Reptilia, Ichthyosauriformes) from the Early Triassic of Yuan’an, Hubei Province, China: sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s13358-024-00331-8

Cenozoic evolutionary history obscures the Mesozoic origins of acanthopterygian fishes: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.30.615987v1

The anatomy and taxonomy of the North African Early Miocene crocodylian ‘Tomistoma’ dowsoni and the phylogenetic relationships of gavialoids: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2024.2384548

Snake-venom resistance as a mammalian trophic adaptation: lessons from didelphid marsupials: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22404916/

Hand and foot morphology maps invasion of terrestrial environments by pterosaurs in the mid-Mesozoic: www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)01226-0

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A diseased Panthera leo spelaea (Goldfuss 1810) lioness from a forest elephant graveyard in the Late Pleistocene (Eemian) interglacial lake at Neumark-Nord, central Germany

www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08912963.2010.507814

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Extinction cascades, community collapse, and recovery across a Mesozoic hyperthermal event: www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-53000-2

Predictive musculoskeletal simulations reveal the mechanistic link between speed, posture and energetics among extant mammals: www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-52924-z

Temporal lobe evolution in Hominidae and the origin of human lobe proportions: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.25027

Patterns of girdle shape and their correlates in Australian limb-reduced skinks: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2024.1653

RECONSTRUCTIONS OF HINDLIMB MUSCULATURE IN EXTINCT PRE-THERIAN SYNAPSIDS: bioone.org/journals/bulletin-of-the-museum-of-comparative-zoology/volume-163/issue-9/MCZ82/RECONSTRUCTIONS-OF-HINDLIMB-MUSCULATURE-IN-EXTINCT-PRE-THERIAN-SYNAPSIDS/10.3099/MCZ82.full

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This paper goes into good detail of the Pietra Leccese formation fauna.

www.researchgate.net/publication/344566230_A_new_record_of_physeteroidea_from_the_upper_miocene_of_the_pietra_leccese_southern_italy_Systematics_paleoecology_and_taphonomy_of_a_fossil_macroraptorial_sperm_whale

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A new diplodocine sauropod from the Morrison Formation, Wyoming, USA: palaeo-electronica.org/content/2024/5327-new-diplodocine-sauropod

A new carcharodontosaurid specimen sheds light on the anatomy of South American giant predatory dinosaurs: link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00114-024-01942-4

Of tusks and trunks: A review of craniofacial evolutionary anatomy in elephants and extinct Proboscidea: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.25578

A new booid snake from the Eocene (Lutetian) Konservat-Lagerstätte of Geiseltal, Germany, and a new phylogenetic analysis of Booidea: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/202/2/zlad179/7471459

New theropod dinosaur remains from the Upper Cretaceous of the Kem Kem Group (Eastern Morocco) clarify spinosaurid morphology: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/202/2/zlae109/7816073?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false

New enantiornithine diversity in the Hell Creek Formation and the functional morphology of the avisaurid tarsometatarsus: journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0310686

New evidence of the global distribution of the swordfish-like pachycormid Protosphyraena in the late Early Cretaceous and a review of global records of the genus: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195667124001927

Head anatomy and phylogenomics show the Carboniferous giant Arthropleura belonged to a millipede-centipede group: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adp6362

Sinocyclocheilus xiejiahuai (Cypriniformes, Cyprinidae), a new cave fish with extremely small population size from western Guizhou, China: zookeys.pensoft.net/article/127629/

Relaxed selection in evolution of genes regulating limb development gives clue to variation in forelimb morphology of cetaceans and other mammals: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2024.1106

A skeletally immature specimen provides new information on the cranial osteology and intraspecific variation of Soturnia caliodon (Procolophonidae: Leptopleuroninae), Upper Triassic of Southern Brazil: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2024.2388166?af=R

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Cranial anatomy of Bagualia alba (Dinosauria, Eusauropoda) from the Early Jurassic of Patagonia and the implications for sauropod cranial evolution: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2024.2400471

A classic key innovation constrains oral jaw functional diversification in fishes: academic.oup.com/evlett/advance-article/doi/10.1093/evlett/qrae046/7816074

The evolutionary and ecological convergence of the raccoon and raccoon dog: A perfect storm of invasive species in Europe: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wll2.12044

Crocodylian diversity during the early Eocene climatic optimum in the Golden Valley Formation of North Dakota, U.S.A.: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2024.2403579

Color polymorphic carnivores have faster speciation rates: www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-74747-0

A small venomous reptile from the Late Triassic (Norian) of the southwestern United States: peerj.com/articles/18279/