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Fossils

Molecular time estimates for the Lagomorpha diversification

Leandro Iraçabal, Matheus R. Barbosa, Alexandre Pedro Selvatti, Claudia Augusta de Moraes Russo

published 06 Sep 2024

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Identification of Late Pleistocene and Holocene fossil lizards from Hall’s Cave (Kerr County, Texas) and a primer on morphological variation in North American lizard skulls

David T. Ledesma, Simon G. Scarpetta, John J. Jacisin III, Antonio Meza, Melissa E. Kemp

published 15 Aug 2024

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First evidence of marine turtle gastroliths in a fossil specimen: Paleobiological implications in comparison to modern analogues

Giovanni Serafini, Caleb M. Gordon, Jacopo Amalfitano, Oliver Wings, Nicole Esteban, Holly Stokes, Luca Giusberti

published 06 May 2024

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The age and growth information of a ctenoid scale fossil from the Upper Cretaceous Nenjiang Formation in Songliao Basin, China

Zhaoqing Liu, Xiaobo Li, Robert R. Reisz

published 03 May 2024

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Pollen identification through convolutional neural networks: First application on a full fossil pollen sequence

Médéric Durand, Jordan Paillard, Marie-Pier Ménard, Thomas Suranyi, Pierre Grondin, Olivier Blarquez

published 30 Apr 2024

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Exploring the preservation of a parasitic trace in decapod crustaceans using finite elements analysis

Nathan L. Wright, Adiël A. Klompmaker, Elizabeth Petsios

published 16 Apr 2024

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Natural external plastron mold of the Triassic turtle Proterochersis: An unusual mode of preservation

Tomasz Szczygielski, Lorenzo Marchetti, Dawid Dróżdż

published 29 Mar 2024

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Powerful tool or too powerful? Early public discourse about ChatGPT across 4 million tweets

Reuben Ng, Ting Yu Joanne Chow

published 27 Mar 2024

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The potential use of mass timber in mid-to high-rise construction and the associated carbon benefits in the United States

Prakash Nepal, Jeffrey P. Prestemon, Indroneil Ganguly, Vaibhav Kumar, Richard D. Bergman, Neelam C. Poudyal

published 20 Mar 2024

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Redescription of three fossil baleen whale skulls from the Miocene of Portugal reveals new cetotheriid phylogenetic insights

Rodrigo Figueiredo, Mark Bosselaers, Liliana Póvoas, Rui Castanhinha

published 13 Mar 2024

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Quantifying the effects of exceptional fossil preservation on the global availability of phylogenetic data in deep time

C. Henrik Woolley, David J. Bottjer, Frank A. Corsetti, Nathan D. Smith

published 14 Feb 2024

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Metagenomic analyses of 7000 to 5500 years old coprolites excavated from the Torihama shell-mound site in the Japanese archipelago

Luca Nishimura, Akio Tanino, Mayumi Ajimoto, Takafumi Katsumura, Motoyuki Ogawa, Kae Koganebuchi, Daisuke Waku, Masahiko Kumagai, Ryota Sugimoto, Hirofumi Nakaoka, Hiroki Oota, Ituro Inoue

published 24 Jan 2024

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Body size estimation from isolated fossil bones reveals deep time evolutionary trends in North American lizards

Sara J. ElShafie

published 05 Jan 2024

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