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The paper re-examines a pterosaur ulnar specimen and identifies it as a lonchodectid, extending the clade into the Late Cretaceous.

The paper analyzes whole-genome sequences of Khazar elites to show their polyethnic origins and genetic admixture from conquered populations, with no persistent genetic traces in Europe.

This study investigates how environmental settings influenced the community ecology of Ediacaran organisms using spatial point process analyses of seven bedding-plane assemblages.

This study examines drilling predation on micromolluscs in a Miocene fossil assemblage, finding size-dependent predation patterns and support for micromorphy as a defense mechanism.

The paper describes transitional chasmosaurine dinosaur fossils from New Mexico that show morphological changes between Pentaceratops and Anchiceratops, supporting anagenesis and challenging previous phylogenetic classifications.

The paper develops a convolutional neural network to classify down-core foraminifera images, achieving 90% accuracy and matching manual counting results for Holocene benthic species.

This study uses ossification sequence data to evaluate six hypotheses about the origin of extant amphibians, finding strong support for a monophyletic origin among lepospondyls and unexpected triphyly in appendicular data.

The paper uses synchrotron X-ray imaging to show Early Jurassic stem-mammals had lifespans and femoral blood flow rates similar to reptiles, indicating reptile-like physiology rather than endothermic metabolism.

This study investigates the phylogenetic utility of compound eye structures in crabs, finding that eye type distribution supports a paraphyletic podotreme grade and highlights the evolution of visual systems.

This study uses biophysiological models to explore metabolic rates and thermal constraints in early dinosaurs under Triassic climate conditions.

This study examines how limb lengthening in theropod dinosaurs relates to locomotory strategies, finding two distinct approaches based on body size for maximizing speed or energetic efficiency.

The paper examines how environmental filtering and limiting similarity affect functional diversity in wood anatomical traits across different climates and applies this to fossil wood paleoclimate estimation.

This study shows that dispersal ability is positively linked to diversification rates in mammalian carnivores when including extinct species.

This study defines historical variation in Caribbean coral reefs using fossil records to show that most modern reefs are in novel states, while one reef has remained stable for over 760 years.

This paper describes the cranial anatomy of Brazilichthys macrognathus using μ-CT, reinterprets its anatomy, and places it as a stem actinopterygian.

The paper develops a geographic sampling bias proxy to test for biases in macroevolutionary analyses using early tetrapodomorph biogeography as a case study.

This study investigates cranial shape evolution in crocodylomorphs, finding strong links between shape, body size, and ecology, with higher disparity in terrestrial taxa and shifts in longirostrine regimes in aquatic species.

The paper documents a 16 Ma fossil showing 25 springtails attached to a termite and ant, suggesting dispersal via social insects and highlighting phoresy as a mechanism for Symphypleona.

The paper describes a root caries lesion on a Paranthropus robustus third molar, suggesting root caries in fossil hominins and potential factors like age and microbiome changes.

This paper develops a deep learning method for automated microfossil identification and segmentation, achieving 98% Intersection Over Union accuracy and introduces a publicly available annotated dataset.