Segmentation in early Xiphosura and the evolution of the thoracetron

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

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

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

A decade of vertebrate palaeontology research: global taxa distribution, gender dynamics and evolving methodologies

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.250263

Cranial anatomy, intraspecific variation, and positional variation within Calyptosuchus wellesi (Pseudosuchia: Aetosauria) based on new specimens from the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation (Adamanian ,early middle Norian) of Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, USA

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TroodontidspecimensfromtheCretaceousTwo MedicineFormationofMontana(USA)andthe validityofTroodonformosus

Tides of rebirth: A stratigraphic perspective on the Lazarus effect in freshwater bivalves in the Aptian-Albian Romualdo Formation, Araripe Basin, Brazil

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195667125000886

An enigmatic teleost fish from the Eocene of Bolca (Italy) with unusual larval-like features

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/spp2.70017 

Fossil evidence of Trachycarpeae (Arecaceae) from the K-Pg of India and its biogeographic implications

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23818107.2025.2502926

Patterns of postcranial fusion in the emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) and Cretaceous theropod dinosaur Troodon formosus

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02724634.2025.2493166

Employment in paleontology: status and trends in the United States

The oldest record of the family Iridinidae (Unionida): New fossil genera and species of bivalves from the Salvador Formation (Berriasian), Jatobá Basin, northeastern Brazil

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0895981125002494

Osmoxylon‐like fossils from early Eocene South America: West Gondwana–Malesia connections in Araliaceae

https://bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ajb2.70045

A name for the Provincial Fossil of British Columbia: a strange new elasmosaur taxon from the Santonian of Vancouver Island

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2025.2489938

How do the principal megabiases in the fossil record affect the discovery of past bryophyte diversity?

https://academic.oup.com/aob/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/aob/mcaf070/8140488?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Reconstructing the paired fin skeletons and musculature in arthrodires from the Devonian (Frasnian) Gogo Formation, Western Australia: implications of arthrodire appendicular anatomy for the serial homology of vertebrate limbs

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02724634.2025.2486071

Almost forgotten fossil wood points to the existence of an overlooked group of Mesozoic Gondwanan gymnosperms

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0034666725001046

Arctic bird nesting traces back to the Cretaceous

https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.adt5189

Ordovician marine Charophyceae and insights into land plant derivations

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-025-02003-y

A novel, solar panel-based screenwashing apparatus for the bulk collection of microvertebrate fossils in the field

A critical review of the Pliocene and Pleistocene European Felidae fossil record

Thermal taphonomy experiments challenge ultrastructural preservation in the Chengjiang yunnanozoans

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rspb.2025.0567

One-billion-year-old eukaryotic algal fossil Arctacellularia from North China and its implications for the evolution of pre-Cryogenian filamentous multicellularity

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0301926825001494

LIZARDS AND SNAKES (LEPIDOSAURIA, SQUAMATA) FROM THE LAJEDO DE SOLEDADE, QUATERNARY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE, BRAZIL

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0895981125002688

Fifty Years in the Foothills: Ecosystem Evolution in the Neogene Siwalik Record of Pakistan

https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-earth-080723-082338

A new occurrence of Ediacara soft-bodied biota in the Central Urals, Russia

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1342937X25001583

Identification of the Maastrichtian Paleoenvironment of the Western High Atlas Phosphate Series in Morocco: Sedimentology, Sequential Stratigraphy, and Ichnology

https://igj-iraq.org/igj/index.php/igj/article/view/2757

New bilaterally symmetrical stem-echinoderm *Atlascystis acantha:

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00681-5

A remarkable beak morphology in a bird skull from the Eocene of Messel (Germany) signifies unusual feeding specializations

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.250620

Speed from fossil trackways: calculations not validated by extant birds on compliant substrates

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0191

Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae, a neornithischian dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of the western USA

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.242195

Calcium isotopes reveal niche partitioning within the dinosaur fauna of the Carnegie Quarry, Morrison Formation

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031018225003888

Side by side with titans: A new rebbachisaurid dinosaur from the Huincul Formation (upper Cenomanian) of Patagonia, Argentina

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195667125001119

 A revised chronostratigraphy of the Triassic-Jurassic Moenave Formation, western USA: Implications for timing of continental climate change Open Access 

https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/gsabulletin/article/doi/10.1130/B37784.1/656267/A-revised-chronostratigraphy-of-the-Triassic

A new Mongolian tyrannosauroid and the evolution of Eutyrannosauria

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08964-6

Soft tissue anatomy of pterosaur hands and feet – new information from Solnhofen region pterodactyloid specimens

https://www.scup.com/doi/10.18261/let.58.3.1

A new theropod dinosaur lek in the Cretaceous Dakota Sandstone (Dinosaur Ridge, Colorado, USA)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195667125000990

First dinosaur remains from Serbia: Sauropod and theropod material from the uppermost Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of Osmakovo

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195667125001004

“Here be Dragons”: Shed Teeth Potentially Indicate the Presence of Multiple Unidentified Allosauroids from the Early Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation of Utah

https://bioone.org/journals/journal-of-the-arizona-nevada-academy-of-science/volume-50/issue-2/036.050.0204/Here-be-Dragons–Shed-Teeth-Potentially-Indicate-the-Presence/10.2181/036.050.0204.short

A new specimen of the early branching crocodyliform Platyognathus hsui extends the record of gobiosuchids back 67 million years

https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/204/2/zlaf032/8154649?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false

Several occurrences of osteomyelitis in dinosaurs from a site in the Bauru Group, Cretaceous of Southeast Brazil

https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70003

A tiny Cambrian stem-mandibulate reveals independent evolution of limb tagmatization and specialization in early euarthropods

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-03544-0

Continuous presence of dinosauromorphs in South America throughout the Middle to the Late Triassic

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-99362-5

 New material of a non-averostran neotheropod dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic Lufeng Formation of Yunnan, south-western China 

https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/204/1/zlaf034/8152932?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Temnodontosaurus bromalites from the Lower Jurassic of Germany: hunting, digestive taphonomy and prey preferences in a macropredatory ichthyosaur

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.70018

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

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

Cranial osteology of a new specimen of Allosaurus Marsh, 1877 (Theropoda: Allosauridae) from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal and a specimen-level phylogenetic analysis of Allosaurus

https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf029

Fossilized gut contents elucidate the feeding habits of sauropod dinosaurs

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00550-0

A new Mongolian tyrannosauroid and the evolution of Eutyrannosauria

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08964-6.epdf?sharing_token=_WmtvUNGRbDtczPEBqzExtRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0Me1D-6MKe2IDEOo_3QwdGDZbj3P2ZB_CRIvc5nN_G-5bCgI7waBDVEHcsNQm6RkAt8VJkK2xL_lGWWT2Y8L7xGbvHwA0dHJbru5J6Q5UQaJqP-bIWbelytdZoWZZZaRPzA8eFGIFA2ygQp4fvJrU6A6j9bbhljxyHRMne7Wii0Ky4R1h7GGnIwc7tKeR0ZTZOhlwQghxvrLwSvqfmEySOc&tracking_referrer=www.bbc.com

 Remarkable soft tissue anatomy recorded in titanosaur (Sauropoda) tracks from the latest Cretaceous of Mongolia 

https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/204/3/zlaf053/8205517

Iridescent structural coloration in a crested Cretaceous enantiornithine bird from the Jehol Biota

https://elifesciences.org/articles/103628

Centres of rotation and osteological constraints on caudal ranges of motion in the sauropod dinosaur Giraffatitan brancai

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.250851

Adaptations for stealth in the wing-like flippers of a large ichthyosaur

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09271-w

Was Hupehsuchus a baleen whale-style filter feeder in the Early Triassic? A re-examination of the evidence

https://peerj.com/articles/19666

A new bird-like dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia with extremely robust hands supports niche partitioning among velociraptorines

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2025.2530148

Triassic diapsid shows early diversification of skin appendages in reptiles

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09167-9

 A diverse assemblage of tanystropheid archosauromorphs from the continental interior of Late Triassic Pangea includes a new taxon (Akidostropheus oligos gen. et sp. nov.)

https://bioone.org/journals/Palaeodiversity/volume-18/issue-1/pale.v18.a5/A-diverse-assemblage-of-tanystropheid-archosauromorphs-from-the-continental-interior/10.18476/pale.v18.a5.full

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