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Osteology

Cranial Osteology of Fona herzogae (Dinosauria: Thescelosaurinae) from the Mussentuchit Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation

Haviv M. Avrahami, Lindsay E. Zanno

published 12 Aug 2026

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Morphology and articular configuration of the ceratopsid (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) lower hindlimb as revealed by a specimen from the Upper Cretaceous Dinosaur Park Formation of southern Alberta, Canada

Brandon Theurer, Darren H. Tanke, Dylan Bastiaans, Khoi Nguyen, Philip Currie, Corwin Sullivan

published 29 Jul 2026

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A practical and safe alternative method for skeletal cleaning for museum specimens using superworms (Zophobas morio)

Fatemeh Rastekar, Niloofar Alaei Kakhki, Mansour Aliabadian, Morteza Monfared

published 01 Jul 2026

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The utility of innominate dry bone weight in age estimation: A new pelvic aging method

Andrea M. Zurek-Ost, Mark Sorensen

published 29 May 2026

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Skeletons in the permafrost: Exploring climate-driven heritage loss and occupational health at the early modern whaling burial site of Likneset, Svalbard

Lise Loktu, Elin Therese Brødholt

published 20 May 2026

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CRISP: Cremated remains inference of sex probabilities – A software for Bayesian sex estimation in human cremated remains

Lukas Waltenberger, Sophie Beitel, Mattia Bischeri, Katharina Rebay-Salisbury, Alessandra Sperduti, Claudio Cavazzuti

published 05 May 2026

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Macroscopic and histological analyses of cremated remains from the Imperial Roman necropolis of La Cona (1^st cent. BCE-1^st cent. CE, Teramo, Italy)

Alessia Galbusera, Stefano Magri, Owen Alexander Higgins, Martina Trevisan, Vito Giuseppe Prillo, Massimo Vidale, Vincenzo Torrieri, Stefano Benazzi, Luca Bondioli, Alessia Nava, Melania Gigante

published 22 Apr 2026

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Gross anatomy of the skeleton of neonates of the Orinoco Matamata turtle (Chelus orinocensis)

Liliana Andrea Valencia-Flórez, Luz Natalia Franco-Montoya, Lynda J. Tamayo-Arango, Claudia P. Ceballos

published 01 Apr 2026

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Fed the same way? Exploring the influence of breastfeeding, weaning, and childhood diet on adult sex ratios through stable isotope analysis of incremental dentine in Medieval Tuscany, Italy (11^th–15^th c. CE)

Alessio Amaro, Antonio Fornaciari, Valentina Giuffra, Sang-Tae Kim, Martin Knyf, Paul Szpak, Bonnie Kahlon, Tracy L. Prowse

published 21 Jan 2026

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Sticking our nose into the Sonorini tribe: A new genus and species of snake (Squamata: Colubridae: Sonorini) from the Balsas Basin of Mexico

Antonio Y. Cisneros-Bernal, Ricardo Palacios-Aguilar, Carlos Hernández-Jiménez, Eric N. Smith, Oscar Flores-Villela, Cristian Hernández-Morales, Oscar Olivares Loyola, Gustavo Campillo-García

published 10 Dec 2025

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Bone weathering in a Mediterranean climate region: An experimental case study from Doñana National Park (Spain)

Marcos Pizarro-Monzo, Laura Domingo, Juan José Negro, Enrique Cantero, David M. Martín-Perea, M.Soledad Domingo

published 31 Oct 2025

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Multiproxy study reveals equality in the deposition of flaked lithic grave goods from the Baltic Stone Age cemetery Zvejnieki (Latvia)

Anđa Petrović, Jessica Bates, Aija Macāne, Ilga Zagorska, Mark Edmonds, Kerkko Nordqvist, Aimée Little

published 10 Sep 2025

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A Late Bronze Age foreign elite? Investigating mobility patterns at Seddin, Germany

Anja B. Frank, Jens May, Serena Sabatini, Franz Schopper, Robert Frei, Flemming Kaul, Susanne Storch, Svend Hansen, Kristian Kristiansen, Karin M. Frei

published 10 Sep 2025

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