Rise of the king: Gondwanan origins and evolution of megaraptoran dinosaurs

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.242238

New ecdysozoan fossil embryos from the basal Cambrian of China

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018224006242

Reassessment of Xenodens calminechari with a discussion of tooth morphology in mosasaurs

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39682068

Youngest fossil occurrence of ichthyosaurs from the Southern Hemisphere

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667124002441

Preservation and early evolution of scalidophoran ventral nerve cord • Short title: Nervous system of early Scalidophora

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adr0896

The early Cambrian Saccorhytus is a non-feeding larva of a scalidophoran worm

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2024.1256

Insights into Argentavis magnificens (Aves, Teratornithidae) lifestyle based on neuroanatomy

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.14184

Theropod dinosaur diversity of the lower English Wealden: analysis of a tooth-based fauna from the Wadhurst Clay Formation (Lower Cretaceous: Valanginian) via phylogenetic, discriminant and machine learning methods

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/spp2.1604

The oldest monofenestratan pterosaur from the Queso Rallado locality (Cañadón Asfalto Formation, Toarcian) of Chubut Province, Patagonia, Argentina

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.241238

The spatiotemporal distribution of Mesozoic dinosaur diversity

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0443

Osteology, relationship, and feeding ecology of the theropod dinosaur Noasaurus leali, from the Late Cretaceous of North-Western Argentina

https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/202/4/zlae150/7926352

Finite element analysis to compare the ecology of the late Jurassic theropods Ceratosaurus and Allosaurus part II: skulls and feeding

https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=9850426

Changes in central Texas herpetofauna during the late Quaternary : an examination of lizards and salamanders from Hall’s Cave

https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/items/cb8964cf-ed1e-4dde-a36c-fc075362e09f

Andy & Snax

https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/vamp/index.php/VAMP/article/view/29404

New soft tissue data of pterosaur tail vane reveals sophisticated, dynamic tensioning usage and expands its evolutionary origins

https://elifesciences.org/articles/100673

A giant specimen of Rhamphorhynchus muensteri and comments on the ontogeny of rhamphorhynchines

https://peerj.com/articles/18587

Rethinking dinosaur origins: oldest known equatorial dinosaur-bearing assemblage (mid-late Carnian Popo Agie FM, Wyoming, USA)

https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/203/1/zlae153/7942678?login=false

New Silurian aculiferan fossils reveal complex early history of Mollusca

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08312-0

Functional optimality underpins the repeated evolution of the extreme “saber-tooth” morphology

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)01626-9

Multiple lines of evidence support anagenesis in Daspletosaurus and cladogenesis in derived tyrannosaurines

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195667125000035

Re-evaluation of the Bahariya Formation carcharodontosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) and its implications for allosauroid phylogeny

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0311096

Cursorial ecomorphology and temporal patterns in theropod dinosaur evolution during the mid-Cretaceous

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.241178

Growing with dinosaurs: a review of dinosaur reproduction and ontogeny

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0474

Reconstructing dinosaur locomotion

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0441

Morphological and Phylogenetic Significance of the First Adult Humerus of the Patagonian Cretaceous Theropod Megaraptor namunhuaiquii Novas, 1998

https://bioone.org/journals/annals-of-carnegie-museum/volume-90/issue-3/007.090.0301/Morphological-and-Phylogenetic-Significance-of-the-First-Adult-Humerus-of/10.2992/007.090.0301.short

Osteology and functional morphology of a transitional pterosaur Dearc sgiathanach from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) of Scotland

https://bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-024-02337-9

Insights into stem Batomorphii: A new holomorphic ray (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) from the upper Jurassic of Germany

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0310174 \

The appendicular osteology of the Early Jurassic theropod Piatnitzkysaurus floresi and its implications on the morphological disparity of non-coelurosaurian tetanurans 

https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/203/1/zlae176/7979031

Further trimming down the marine heavyweights: Perucetus colossus did not come close to, much less exceed, the tonnage of blue whales, and the latter are not ultra-sized either

https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025/5431-trimming-down-perucetus

A long-handed new ornithomimid dinosaur from the Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) Cerro del Pueblo Formation, Coahuila, Mexico

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667125000102

Census of currently known specimens of the Late Jurassic sauropod Haplocanthosaurus from the Morrison Formation, USA

https://giw.utahgeology.org/giw/index.php/GIW/article/view/150

Cretaceous Antarctic bird skull elucidates early avian ecological diversity

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08390-0

Osteohistology of the unusually fast-growing theropod dinosaur Ceratosaurus

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/joa.14186

A peritidal Burgess-Shale-type fauna from the middle Cambrian of western Canada

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pala.70001

Mosasaurids Bare the Teeth: An Extraordinary Ecological Disparity in the Phosphates of Morocco Just Prior to the K/Pg Crisis †

https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/17/2/114

Revisiting Bird’s swimming sauropod: new insights on Manus-dominated Dinosaur Tracks from the Mayan Dude Ranch in Bandera, Texas

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2025.2461068

Anquilosaurios de Coahuila, México

https://paleontologiamexicana.geologia.unam.mx/index.php/paleontologia/article/view/389

Evolutionary and paleobiogeographic implications of new carcharodontosaurian, megaraptorid, and unenlagiine theropod remains from the upper Lower Cretaceous of Victoria, southeast Australia

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2024.2441903

Trauma-induced alterations in the exoskeleton of glyptodonts (Cingulata, Xenarthra) associated with fighting behavior

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10914-025-09750-x

Two new compsognathid-like theropods show diversified predation strategies in theropod dinosaurs

https://academic.oup.com/nsr/article/12/5/nwaf068/8030555

Dinosaurs as skeletons or lifelike replicas – effects on interest in extinct animals

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/ecology-and-evolution/articles/10.3389/fevo.2025.1557255/full

Infernodrakon hastacollis gen. et sp. nov., a new azhdarchid pterosaur from the Hell Creek Formation of Montana, and the pterosaur diversity of Maastrichtian North America

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2024.2442476

Pygmaclypeatus daziensis, a unique lower Cambrian arthropod with two different compound eye systems

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-07664-1

Giant Bird Tracks (Family Gastornithidae) from the Paleogene Chuckanut Formation, Northwest Washington, USA, with a Review of Gastornis Distribution

https://www.mdpi.com/2813-6284/3/1/4

Long meg Reassessment of the possible size, form, weight, cruising speed, and growth parameters of the extinct megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon (Lamniformes: Otodontidae), and new evolutionary insights into its gigantism, life history strategies, ecology, and extinction

https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025/5450-biology-of-otodus-megalodon

Morphology, development and ecological implications of the dentition of Bajadasaurus pronuspinax

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2025.2472157

Fossil feathers from the Colli Albani volcanic complex (Late Pleistocene, Central Italy) preserved in zeolites

https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/doi/10.1130/G52971.1/653118/Fossil-feathers-from-the-Colli-Albani-volcanic

Epidermal scale growth, allometry and function in non-avian dinosaurs and extant reptiles

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/joa.14247

Didactyl therizinosaur with a preserved keratinous claw from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia

https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(25)00401-8

A new metriacanthosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Yunnan Province, China

https://peerj.com/articles/19218

The Canadian fossil record supports anagenesis in Triceratops (Ornithischia, Ceratopsia)

https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1139/cjes-2024-0170

A digging theropod? Enigmatic ankylosed phalanges from the Upper Cretaceous of Uzbekistan

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12542-025-00724-1

For a while, crocodile: crocodylomorph resilience to mass extinctions

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/pala.70005

A South American sebecid from the Miocene of Hispaniola documents the presence of apex predators in early West Indies ecosystems

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2024.2891

First record of Carcharodontosauridae (Dinosauria, Theropoda) in the Upper Cretaceous Khodzhakul Formation of Uzbekistan

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-paleontology/article/abs/first-record-of-carcharodontosauridae-dinosauria-theropoda-in-the-upper-cretaceous-khodzhakul-formation-of-uzbekistan/7068DD313B954E2DB7EC507F956EFE73

Expanded phylogeny elucidates Deinosuchus relationships, crocodylian osmoregulation and body-size evolution

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-07653-4

A Review of Nanosaurus agilis Marsh and Other Small-Bodied Morrison Formation “Ornithopods”

https://bioone.org/journals/bulletin-of-the-peabody-museum-of-natural-history/volume-66/issue-1/014.066.0102/A-Review-of-Nanosaurus-agilis-Marsh-and-Other-Small-Bodied/10.3374/014.066.0102.full

 A hell ant from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00308-2

Exploring the diversity and disparity of rhabdodontomorph ornithopods from the Late Cretaceous European archipelago

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-98083-z

 THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF MEGALOSAURUS BUCKLANDII IN PALEOART 

https://meridian.allenpress.com/esh/article-abstract/44/1/202/506696/THE-PAST-PRESENT-AND-FUTURE-OF-MEGALOSAURUS

New frontiers in dinosaur exploration

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0045

Beyond the Stromer’s Riddle: the impact of lumping and splitting hypotheses on the systematics of the giant predatory dinosaurs from northern Africa

https://www.italianjournalofgeosciences.it/297/article-1220/beyond-the-stromer-s-riddle-the-impact-of-lumping-and-splitting-hypotheses-on-the-systematics-of-the-giant-predatory-dinosaurs-from-northern-africa.html

When dinosaurs hear like barn owls: pitfalls and caveats in assessing hearing in dinosaurs

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0680

A new herrerasaurian dinosaur from the Upper Triassic Upper Maleri Formation of south-central India

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.250081

Combined Ca, Sr isotope and trace element analyses of Late Cretaceous dinosaur teeth: assessing diet versus diagenesis

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001670372500239X

Silesaurid (Archosauria: Dinosauriformes) remains from the base of the Dockum Group (Late Triassic: Otischalkian) of Texas provide new insights to the North American record of dinosauriforms

https://anatomypubs-onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.25677

Shishania is a chancelloriid and not a Cambrian mollusk

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adv4635

New perspectives on body size and shape evolution in dinosaurs

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/brv.70026

Biogeographical network analysis of the Late Triassic dinosaurs and new insights on their geodispersal routes

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1342937X25001327

Troodontid specimens from the Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation of Montana (USA) and the validity of Troodon formosus

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-paleontology/article/troodontid-specimens-from-the-cretaceous-two-medicine-formation-of-montana-usa-and-the-validity-of-troodon-formosus/3E58F1FDA3FE53DE569E0D0B20E79F22

Direct evidence of carnivory in the early-diverging Alvarezsaurian Bannykus

https://www.the-innovation.org/article/doi/10.59717/j.xinn-geo.2025.100143

Early evolvability in arthropod tagmosis exemplified by a new radiodont from the Burgess Shale

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.242122

Chicago Archaeopteryx informs on the early evolution of the avian bauplan

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08912-4

Earliest amniote tracks recalibrate the timeline of tetrapod evolution

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08884-5

Early reports of abelisaurids from Europe:

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