The oldest fossil record in the Iberian Peninsula; lower Ediacaran acritarchs of the Tentudía Formation, Ossa-Morena Zone (OMZ), Southwest Iberian Massif.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41513-024-00266-6

Extremely rapid, yet noncatastrophic, preservation of the flattened-feathered and 3D dinosaurs of the Early Cretaceous of China

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2322875121

The Micropaleoecology Framework: Evaluating Biotic Responses to Global Change Through Paleoproxy, Microfossil, and Ecological Data Integration 

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ece3.70470

The Cambrian of the Grand Canyon: Refinement of a Classic Stratigraphic Model

https://www.geosociety.org/GSA/Publications/GSA_Today/GSA/GSAToday/science/G604A/article.aspx

Microstructure and development of the dermal ossicles of Antarctopelta oliveroi (Dinosauria, Ankylosauria): A complex morphogenetic system deciphered through three-dimensional X-ray microtomography

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.14159

A Worldwide Annotated Checklist of Fossil (Devonian–Cretaceous) Species of the Clam Shrimp Genus Euestheria (Branchiopoda: Diplostraca: Spinicaudata)

https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/14/11/1438

Reconstructing fossil insect communities and palaeoclimates for the Middle Jurassic Yanliao Biota in the Daohugou area of China

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095927324008089

Proboscidea from Miocene strata of the Texas Coastal Plain with a reappraisal of the biochronology of the Fleming Group

https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2024/5377-texas-proboscidea

Unique internal anatomy of vertebrae as a key factor for neck elongation in Triassic archosauromorphs 

https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/202/3/zlae126/7887506

A Sixth Mass Extinction? How linguistic uncertainty shapes our understanding of the biodiversity crisis

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.70653

Stratigraphy and paleontology (plant and arthropod fossils) from the Late Neogene Niguanak site, Arctic Slope, Northern Alaska

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/15230430.2024.2407714

New primates from the middle Eocene of the Sand Wash Basin, northwestern Colorado

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047248424001209

Ediacaran paleobiology and biostratigraphy of the Nama Group, Namibia, with emphasis on the erniettomorphs, tubular and trace fossils, and a new sponge, Arimasia germsi n. gen. n. Sp.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-paleontology/article/ediacaran-paleobiology-and-biostratigraphy-of-the-nama-group-namibia-with-emphasis-on-the-erniettomorphs-tubular-and-trace-fossils-and-a-new-sponge-arimasia-germsi-n-gen-n-sp/0FAD3C90FE35A42C9401FA92C4311C75

Mummy of a juvenile sabre-toothed cat Homotherium latidens from the Upper Pleistocene of Siberia

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-79546-1

Fossils, DNA, and Nothing: evidence of evolutionary biology university students find compelling

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12052-024-00212-1

Waukeshaaspis eatonae n. gen. n. sp.: a specialized dalmanitid (Trilobita) from the Telychian of southeastern Wisconsin

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-paleontology/article/waukeshaaspis-eatonae-n-gen-n-sp-a-specialized-dalmanitid-trilobita-from-the-telychian-of-southeastern-wisconsin/C7D133BB3879FB78FD3D2E1CB2C238E1

Inferring the locomotor ecology of two of the oldest fossil squirrels: influence of operationalization, trait, body size and machine learning method

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2024.0743

Deciphering interfungal relationships in the 410-million-yr-old Rhynie chert: Rhizophydites shutei sp. nov.(fossil Chytridiomycota) on glomeromycotan acaulospores

https://www.biotaxa.org/AMNPSBHN/article/view/86477

Prionailurus kurteni (Felidae, Carnivora), a new species of small felid from the late Middle Pleistocene fossil hominin locality of Hualongdong, southern China

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_url?url=https://www.sekj.org/PDF/anz61-free/anz61-335-342.pdf&hl=en&sa=X&d=11300691943670972047&ei=1Tw_Z_-_A6Ox6rQPlsqjuA0&scisig=AFWwaeb7jDdmXNg5Y0DdwevhNkuU&oi=scholaralrt&hist=9eSAUBwAAAAJ:3326384346076758402:AFWwaeZSIozoZ_TPCNWXPWO_EMWx&html=&pos=9&folt=kw-top 

Three-dimensional dental topography of fossil suids and paleoenvironmental reconstruction of earliest Vallesian (Late Miocene) sites from the Vallès-Penedès Basin (NE Iberian Peninsula)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031018224005959

A long fossil trackway assigned to an ungulate from the Chiquimil Formation (Late Miocene, Messinian), Santa María valley, Catamarca, Argentina

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0895981124004929

An assessment of body size and dietary biases in fossil mammal assemblages of the Pleistocene of Eurasia

https://bioone.org/journals/annales-zoologici-fennici/volume-61/issue-1/086.061.0117/An-assessment-of-body-size-and-dietary-biases-in-fossil/10.5735/086.061.0117.short

An exceptionally preserved fossil assemblage from the early Jurassic of Chongqing (China) reveals a complex lacustrine ecosystem

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-77084-4

A bonanza of Cretaceous fossils provides insights into the evolution of antennal protection in clown beetles (Coleoptera: Histeridae) 

https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/202/3/zlae137/7905239

A review of fossil scorpion higher systematics

https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publications/a-review-of-fossil-scorpion-higher-systematics

Are Modern Cryptic Species Detectable in the Fossil Record? A Case Study on Agamid Lizards 

https://academic.oup.com/sysbio/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/sysbio/syae067/7906953?redirectedFrom=fulltext

New pterosaur fossils from the Early Cretaceous of Colombia

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0895981124004954

Oldest menispermaceous endocarp fossil from the Deccan Intertrappean Beds of Central India and its biogeographic implications

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0034666724002008

Digestive contents and food webs record the advent of dinosaur supremacy

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08265-4

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03652-3

A review of the non-semiaquatic adaptations of extinct crocodylomorphs throughout their fossil record

https://anatomypubs-onlinelibrary-wiley-com.libproxy.nau.edu/doi/10.1002/ar.25586

Fossil constraints on the origin and evolution of Platyhelminthes are surprisingly concordant with modern molecular phylogenies

https://www.scielo.br/j/zool/a/Qf5KSC3PfDQJcwHypLjKK4q/?lang=en

Occurrence of the trace fossil Hillichnus in Upper Cretaceous deposits in association with dinosaur footprints: A case from the Torotoro National Park in Bolivia

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016699524000998

Footprint evidence for locomotor diversity and shared habitats among early Pleistocene hominins

https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.ado5275

Morphological Diversity of Desmiophyllum Lesquereux Fossil Leaves and Related Palaeoenvironmental Implications from the Early Cretaceous of Northeastern Spain

https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/16/12/730

Fossil insect-feeding traces indicate unrecognized evolutionary history and biodiversity on Australia’s iconic Eucalyptus

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39605238

Was Palaeolake Messel a death-trap? Insight from modern bat drownings and decay experiments

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12549-024-00631-4

Shrub cover declined as Indigenous populations expanded across southeast Australia

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adn8668

The most detailed anatomical reconstruction of a Mesozoic coelacanth

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0312026

Reshaping a woolly rhinoceros: Discovery of a fat hump on its back

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379124005158

The Weddell Line, an Early Cenozoic Biogeographical Barrier Among Southern Hemisphere Terrestrial Mammals

https://www.ameghiniana.org.ar/index.php/ameghiniana/futureIssues

New evidence for the presence of carcharodontosaurid theropod dinosaurs in the Late Cretaceous of Uzbekistan

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2024.2423675

A new ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Jiangxi Province, southern China

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2024.2417208

The response to and rejection of Brian Ford’s Too Big to Walk, a 21st century effort to reinstate the aquatic dinosaur hypothesis

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2024.2421268

Sea level rise and the evolution of aggression on islands

https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(24)02461-1

The macroecology of Mesozoic dinosaurs

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0392

Ediacaran origin and Ediacaran-Cambrian diversification of Metazoa

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adp7161

A new and large monofenestratan reveals the evolutionary transition to the pterodactyloid pterosaurs

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)01377-0

An Ediacaran bilaterian with an ecdysozoan affinity from South Australia

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)01384-8

Reevaluation of Imperobator as an unenlagiine: 

https://www.ameghiniana.org.ar/index.php/ameghiniana/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/120

Finite element and microstructural analyses indicate that pteraspid heterostracan oral plate microstructure was adapted to a mechanical function

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pala.12733

Fibular reduction and the evolution of theropod locomotion

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08251-w

The world’s largest worm lizard: a new giant trogonophid (Squamata: Amphisbaenia) with extreme dental adaptations from the Eocene of Chambi, Tunisia

https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/202/3/zlae133/7906359

Functional and phylogenetic signals in the pectoral girdle of Thalattosuchia and Dyrosauridae (Crocodylomorpha)

https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ar.25596

Early-diverging plesiosaurs from the Pliensbachian (Lower Jurassic) of northwestern Germany

https://peerj.com/articles/18408/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2mekJigt6Zzq3cpR1XR9xZPJqTKUoJbgq-uNpRf_hlLyHteMAp3cA5njU_aem_eFiM0g6KLjYZ4QuwPG_uzw

Late Triassic †Cryptovaranoides microlanius is a squamate, not an archosauromorph

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.231874

Reassessment of isolated reptilian teeth confirms the presence of ziphodont crocodylians during the Pliocene of New Guinea

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2024.2429585

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