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This paper presents a GPU-based pipeline for volume rendering of trillion-voxel tomographic data, preserving native resolution and enabling detailed morphological analysis of geological samples.

This paper develops a method for estimating body volume and mass of plesiosaurs using skeletal reconstructions and volumetric-density approaches, finding trunk length and dorsal vertebrae dimensions as the best size proxies.

Fifty micro-CT-scanned archaeological petrous bones from Argentina did not differ significantly from 43 unscanned ones on six ancient DNA metrics, motivating a multi-step workflow that scans bones before destructive sampling.

This study reconstructs terrestrial diversification dynamics across the Permo-Triassic boundary using fossil data, revealing heterogeneous extinction patterns and challenging the idea of global terrestrial collapse.

The paper critiques a study's findings on neoselachian diversification patterns, attributing discrepancies to methodological issues and incomplete fossil data.

This study challenges the late origin of crown eukaryotes by showing that evolutionary dynamics require an earlier last eukaryotic common ancestor (LECA) to explain observed diversity and fossil records.

The paper compares cell-like entities from mammalian tissues with Precambrian microfossils, finding morphological and biochemical similarities suggesting biologically active systems in both.

This study compares genus-level and species-level disparity patterns in acanthoceratid ammonoids to assess if genus-level data accurately reflect species-level evolutionary dynamics during a major ecological event.

This paper describes new postcranial morphology of Lithornis vulturinus from the Eocene London Clay using microCT scans, revealing intraspecific variation and aiding in understanding palaeognath evolution.

Excavation of the 1.78 Ma Emiliano Aguirre Korongo site and landscape surveys across Olduvai Gorge Bed II reveal systematic early Pleistocene hominin butchery and percussive bone breakage of elephants.

This study shows that kangaroos developed thickened enamel instead of high-crowned teeth in response to grazing, challenging the idea that herbivore evolution is predictable.

This study shows the fossil record is biased due to human-centric data collection, with higher sampling in periods and locations associated with hominins.

This paper re-evaluates the taxonomy of late Maastrichtian tyrannosaurs in western North America, rejecting ontogenetic metamorphosis and identifying new basal eutyrannosaur taxa.

This study reconstructs marine food webs across the Permian-Triassic Mass Extinction to show that trophic collapse was not global and was influenced by environmental factors and species traits.

This study identifies two subadult Speothos canid remains from Pleistocene deposits in Cuvieri Cave, Lagoa Santa, Brazil, representing the first record of this genus in the cave's fossil record.

This study examines how marine plankton stability and spatial heterogeneity changed over the Cenozoic, finding latitude-dependent trends with equatorial stabilization and polar destabilization.

This study uses morphometric analysis to resolve a long-standing taxonomic debate about two Upper Ordovician arthropods, placing them within Vicissicaudata.

Morphometric and micro-CT analysis of 110 fossil and 354 extant Solanaceae seeds identifies 10 specimen-backed fossil species, including four new genera and a fossilized elaiosome, spanning Eocene to Holocene deposits.

The paper shows that siliceous sponge spicules first appear in the fossil record during the Cambrian, not the Ediacaran, and that this reflects their actual evolutionary timing rather than taphonomic bias.

This paper reanalyzes the phylogenetic placement of Doratodon carcharidens and other Cretaceous crocodyliforms, challenging the Eurogondwana hypothesis and supporting an earlier Gondwana-Laurasia split.