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New evidence for Early Pleistocene use of fire at Wonderwerk Cave (South Africa)

M. Dolores Marin-Monfort, Candice L. Shaw, Filipe Natalio, Liron Grossman, Peter Andrews, Joaquín Campos, Sara García-Morato, José M. Pereira, Alicia Pons, Michael Chazan, Liora Kolska Horwitz, Yolanda Fernández-Jalvo

published 01 Jun 2026

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High precision CA-ID-TIMS U-Pb zircon age for the “Dueling Dinosaurs” locality, with implications for regional correlation, basal age and duration of the Hell Creek Formation, Montana

Eric M. Roberts, Marc S. Hendrix, Jahandar Ramezani, William C. Clyde, Pierre Zippi, Stuart Hodgson, Valerie Yuleridge, Lindsay E. Zanno

published 20 May 2026

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Digitizing microscope slide-based natural history collections: A protocol using slide scanner technology

Ingrid C. Romero, Scott L. Wing, Carlos A. Jaramillo, Holly Little, Surangi W. Punyasena, Alexander E. White

published 24 Apr 2026

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Unraveling the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary event across the Gulf of Mexico—High-resolution Rayon reef section, Valles-San Luis Potosi platform, Mexico

Roberto Bartali, Jaime Urrutia-Fucugauchi, Jose Ramon Torres-Hernandez, Ligia Perez-Cruz, Rosa Lina Tovar-Tovar

published 22 Apr 2026

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Unpacking lithic assemblage variability in the Early Upper Palaeolithic: A multivariate approach to the structure of the Iberian Aurignacian

Timothy Canessa, Paloma de la Peña

published 27 Mar 2026

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Multi-index analysis of climate change events recorded by loess-paleosol deposits in the upper Hanjiang River valley since MIS 3

Wentong Zhang, Lansong Lv, Jiayu Lu, Ye Lv, Haiyan Wang, Xu Xu, Jiangli Pang

published 04 Mar 2026

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Geochronological insights of middle miocene primates and vertebrate fauna of Ramnagar (J&K, India): Integrating litho- and magnetostratigraphy

Deepak Choudhary, Christopher C. Gilbert, Christopher J. Campisano, Daniel J. Peppe, Mohammad Arif, Sarvendra Pratap Singh, Kahsay Tesfay, Biren A. Patel, Wasim Abass Wazir, Rohit Kumar, Binita Phartiyal, Ningthoujam Premjit Singh, Kongrailatpam Milankumar Sharma, Rajeev Patnaik

published 26 Feb 2026

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Detection of traces of calcium oxalate druses in fossil leaves of angiosperms and gymnosperms from different sites and geological periods

Mahdieh Malekhosseini, Hans-Jürgen Ensikat, Victoria E. McCoy, Torsten Wappler, Jes Rust

published 17 Dec 2025

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Age is just a number: Examining the preservation of cells and soft tissues in Bothriolepis and other Devonian fish

Christopher L. Rogoff, Paul V. Ullmann

published 03 Dec 2025

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Glass factory found: Basinwide (600 km) preservation of sponges on the Phosphoria glass ramp, Permian, USA

Zackery Wistort, Leif Tapanila, William Moynihan, Kathleen Ritterbush

published 12 Nov 2025

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Paleontological and paleoecological significance of the oldest highly productive Upper Cretaceous (lowermost Maastrichtian) bonebed of Haţeg Basin (western Romania; Densuş-Ciula Formation)

Gábor Botfalvai, Zoltán Csiki-Sava, János Magyar, Barna Páll-Gergely, Levente Koczó, Daniel Ţabără, Gergő Konecsni, Soma Budai

published 10 Nov 2025

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Phylogenomics of sigmodontine rodents (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae): Cloud forests and Pliocene extinction explain the timing and spread of an iconic South American radiation

Max R. Bangs, Alexandre Reis Percequillo, Víctor Pacheco, Scott J. Steppan

published 04 Nov 2025

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Characteristics and genesis of permian chert in the middle and upper Yangtze Region, China

Da-zhi Zhang, Jin-xiong Luo, Bin Feng, You-bin He, Zhan Wen

published 17 Oct 2025

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