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No scientific paper for now, but news of interest:
First ever preserved grown up cave bear - even its nose is intact - unearthed on Arctic island in Siberia
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Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:
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Sophia C. Anderson & Graeme D. Ruxton (2020)
The evolution of flight in bats: a novel hypothesis.
Mammal Review (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/mam.12211
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mam.12211
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/mam.12211
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Anders Galatius, Rachel Racicot, Michael McGowen & Morten Tange Olsen (2020)
Evolution and diversification of delphinid skull shapes.
iScience 101543
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2020.101543
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004220307355
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Haowen Tong, Xi Chen, Bei Zhang, Bruce Rothschild, Stuart White, Mairin Balisi & Xiaoming Wang (2020)
Hypercarnivorous teeth and healed injuries to Canis chihliensis from Early Pleistocene Nihewan beds, China, support social hunting for ancestral wolves.
PeerJ 8:e9858
doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9858
https://peerj.com/articles/9858/
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Heather F. Smith, Brent Adrian, Rahul Koshy, Ryan Alwiel & Aryeh Grossman (2020)
Adaptations to cursoriality and digit reduction in the forelimb of the African wild dog (Lycaon pictus).
PeerJ 8:e986
doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9866
https://peerj.com/articles/9866/
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Kapi ramnagarensis gen. et sp. nov.
Christopher C. Gilbert, Alejandra Ortiz, Kelsey D. Pugh, Christopher J. Campisano, Biren A. Patel, Ningthoujam Premjit Singh, John G. Fleagle and Rajeev Patnaik (2020)
New Middle Miocene Ape (Primates: Hylobatidae) from Ramnagar, India fills major gaps in the hominoid fossil record.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 287(1934): 20201655.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.1655
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2020.1655
Free pdf:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2020.1655
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Andrea Picin, Mateja Hajdinjak, Wioletta Nowaczewska, Stefano Benazzi, MikoÅaj Urbanowski, Adrian Marciszak, Helen Fewlass, PaweÅ Socha, Krzysztof Stefaniak, Marcin Åarski, Andrzej WiÅniewski, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Adam Nadachowski & Sahra Talamo (2020)
Scientific Reports 10, Article number: 14778
New perspectives on Neanderthal dispersal and turnover from Stajnia Cave (Poland).
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71504-x
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-71504-x
Free pdf:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-71504-x.pdf
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Josà MarÃa BermÃdez de Castro, Mario ModestoâMata, Laura MartÃnâFrancÃs, Cecilia GarcÃaâCampos, Marina MartÃnez de Pinillos & MarÃa MartinÃnâTorres (2020)
Testing the inhibitory cascade model in the Middle Pleistocene Sima de los Huesos (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain) hominin sample.
Journal of Anatomy (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.13292
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/joa.13292
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/joa.13292
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Beg tse gen. et sp. nov.
Congyu Yu, Albert Prieto-Marquez, Tsogtbaatar Chinzorig, Zorigt Badamkhatan & Mark Norell (2020)
A neoceratopsian dinosaur from the early Cretaceous of Mongolia and the early evolution of ceratopsia.
Communications Biology 3, Article number: 499
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-01222-7
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-020-01222-7
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-020-01222-7.pdf
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Changmiania liaoningensis gen. et sp. nov.
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ÂYuqing Yang, Wenhao Wu, Paul-Emile Dieudonnà & Pascal Godefroit (2020)
A new basal ornithopod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of China.
PeerJ 8:e9832
doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9832
https://peerj.com/articles/9832/
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Jinhua Li, Rui Pei, Fangfang Teng, Hao Qiu, Roald Tagle, Qiqi Yan, Qiang Wang, Xuelei Chu & Xing Xu (2020)
Micro-XRF study of the troodontid dinosaur Jianianhualong tengi reveals new biological and taphonomical signals.
bioRxiv 2020.09.07.285833 (preprint)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.09.07.285833
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.07.285833v1
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.07.285833v1.full.pdf
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Yun Chan-gyu (2020)
A Subadult Frontal of Daspletosaurus torosus (Theropoda: Tyrannosauridae) from the Late Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada with Implications for Tyrannosaurid Ontogeny and Taxonomy.
PalArchâs Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology 17(2): 1-13
ISSN 1567-2158
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http://www.palarch.nl/wp-content/Yun_PJVP_17_2.pdf
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Mateusz Wosik, Kentaro Chiba, FranÃois Therrien and David C. Evans (2020)
Testing size--frequency distributions as a method of ontogenetic aging: a life-history assessment of hadrosaurid dinosaurs from the Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta, Canada, with implications for hadrosaurid paleoecology.
Paleobiology (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2020.2
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Ingrid R. Cordeiro, Reiko Yu & Mikiko Tanaka (2020)
Regulation of the limb shape during the development of the Chinese softshell turtles
Evolution & Development (advance online publication)
doi:Â https://doi.org/10.1111/ede.12352
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ede.12352
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ElÅbieta M. Teschner, Sanjukta Chakravorti, Dhurjati P. Sengupta & Dorota Konietzko-Meier (2020)
Climatic influence on the growth pattern of Panthasaurus maleriensis from the Late Triassic of India deduced from paleohistology.
PeerJ 8:e9868
doi:Â https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9868
https://peerj.com/articles/9868/
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Sean Thor Herron, Edward James Fleming & Michael John Flower (2020)
Transition from swimming to walking preserved in tetrapod trackways from the Late Carboniferous of BjÃrnÃya, Svalbard.
Norwegian Journal of Geology 100: 202012 (advance online publication)
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.17850/njg100-2-6
http://njg.geologi.no/component/fabrik/details/1/2274-2274
Free pdf:
http://njg.geologi.no/images/NJG_articles/Herron_et_al._accepted_manuscript.pdf
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Baringochromis senutae gen. et sp. nov.
Baringochromis sonyii sp. nov.
Baringochromis tallamae sp. nov.
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Melanie Altner & Bettina Reichenbacher (2020)
A small cichlid species flock from the Upper Miocene (9â10 MYA) of Central Kenya.
Hydrobiologia (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-020-04358-z
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10750-020-04358-z
Free pdf:
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10750-020-04358-z.pdf
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Alexandre Lemopoulos & Juan I. Montoya-Burgos (2020)
From scales to armour: scale losses and trunk bony plate gains in ray-finned fishes.
bioRxiv 2020.09.09.288886 (preprint)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.09.09.288886
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.09.288886v1
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Rie Kusakabe, Shinnosuke Higuchi, Masako Tanaka, Mitsutaka Kadota, Osamu Nishimura & Shigeru Kuratani (2020)
Novel developmental bases for the evolution of hypobranchial muscles in vertebrates.
BMC Biology 18, Article number: 120
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-020-00851-y
https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-020-00851-y
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Also:
Juan Manuel Vazquez & Vincent J. Lynch (2020)
Pervasive duplication of tumor suppressors in Afrotherians during the evolution of large bodies and reduced cancer risk.
bioRxiv 2020.09.10.291906 (preprint)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.09.10.291906
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.10.291906v1
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JoaquÃn Letelier, Silvia Naranjo, Ismael Sospedra, Javier Lopez-Rios, Juan RamÃn Martinez-Morales, Neil Shubin & Josà Luis GÃmez-Skarmeta (2020)
The Shh/Gli3 gene regulatory network precedes the origin of paired fins and reveals the deep homology between distal fins and digits.
bioRxiv 2020.09.08.287532 (preprint)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.09.08.287532
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.08.287532v1
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Tacker, R. Chris. 2020.
A review of "pyrite disease" for paleontologists, with potential focused interventions.
Palaeontologia Electronica 23(3):a44.
doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/1044
palaeo-electronica.org/content/2020/3159-pyrite-disease
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