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This study reconstructs the skull of an Early Cretaceous bird to understand the evolutionary development of cranial kinesis in early avialans.

This study analyzes lungfish endocasts to understand early dipnoan palaeoneurological evolution, finding plasticity in the olfactory region and independent variation in inner ear structures.

The paper uses biomechanical analysis of skeletal remains to investigate weapon use and participation in ancient Maya warfare at Mayapan.

The paper describes a new Miocene teleoceratine skeleton and presents a revised phylogeny of Eurasian teleoceratines.

This paper examines MCMCTree relaxed molecular clock estimates for bilaterian animals and placental mammals, finding that the results are not supported by the fossil record and often overestimate clade origins.

The paper reanalyzes a widely used dataset for Temnospondyli phylogenetics, revealing systematic flaws that undermine previous conclusions about their relationships and lissamphibian origins.

This study models food web structure during a Mesozoic hyperthermal event, finding that extinction targeted benthic guilds and recovery lagged biodiversity recovery.

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This paper describes the exceptional preservation of brain and cranial nerve soft tissue in an ancient ray-finned fish, providing insights into early brain evolution and highlighting previously unknown anatomical features.

This paper challenges the aquatic hypothesis of Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, showing it was semiaquatic and bipedal, not fully aquatic.

This study analyzes faunal remains from an Upper Paleolithic site in Israel, revealing hunting practices and dietary focus on caprines and gazelles.

The paper examines sampling biases in the Palaeozoic actinopterygian fossil record and shows how they obscure early diversification patterns.

This study analyzes metagenomic data from coprolites of three Late Pleistocene megaherbivores to assess how desiccation affects microbial community composition compared to modern samples.

This study creates nitrogen isoscapes for late Pleistocene and early Holocene Europe, showing changes in δ15N spatial gradients over time.

The paper responds to criticisms of their subaqueous foraging inferences for spinosaurids, showing that additional analyses do not alter their original conclusions.

This study describes an Early Triassic sauropterygian skeleton, identifies its phylogenetic position, and highlights the ancestral body plan and adaptive radiation of marine reptiles.

The paper examines hybridization in Late Pleistocene hominins by comparing genetic evidence with cranial variation in fossils from Western Eurasia.

The paper critiques claims about spinosaurids being subaqueous foragers due to methodological flaws in bone analysis and statistical inference.

This paper describes the microstructure of the cuticle in Agnostina species, revealing three layers and specific sensilla types, and compares their cuticle structure to other arthropods.

This paper describes large-bodied ornithomimosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Appalachia, revealing coexistence of medium- and large-sized species in North America.