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Prehistoric animals

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

Sara J. ElShafie

Digestibility of dinosaur food plants revisited and expanded: Previous data, new taxa, microbe donors, foliage maturity, and seasonality

Mariah M. Howell, Carole T. Gee, Christian Böttger, Karl-Heinz Südekum

The oldest fossil bird-like footprints from the upper Triassic of southern Africa

Miengah Abrahams, Emese M. Bordy

Classification of large ornithopod dinosaur footprints using Xception transfer learning

Yeoncheol Ha, Seung-Sep Kim

A new alvarezsaurid dinosaur (Theropoda, Alvarezsauria) from the Upper Cretaceous Baruungoyot Formation of Mongolia provides insights for bird-like sleeping behavior in non-avian dinosaurs

Kohta Kubo, Yoshitsugu Kobayashi, Tsogtbaatar Chinzorig, Khishigjav Tsogtbaatar

Earliest known Gondwanan bird tracks: Wonthaggi Formation (Early Cretaceous), Victoria, Australia

Anthony J. Martin, Melissa Lowery, [ ... ], Peter Swinkels

Big boned: How fat storage and other adaptations influenced large theropod foraging ecology

Cameron C. Pahl, Luis A. Ruedas

Animal tracks and human footprints in prehistoric hunter-gatherer rock art of the Doro! nawas mountains (Namibia), analysed by present-day indigenous tracking experts

Tilman Lenssen-Erz, Andreas Pastoors, [ ... ], Thui Thao

First discovery of parasite eggs in a vertebrate coprolite of the Late Triassic in Thailand

Thanit Nonsrirach, Serge Morand, [ ... ], Julien Claude

An early-diverging iguanodontian (Dinosauria: Rhabdodontomorpha) from the Late Cretaceous of North America

Lindsay E. Zanno, Terry A. Gates, [ ... ], Peter J. Makovicky

A diverse diapsid tooth assemblage from the Early Triassic (Driefontein locality, South Africa) records the recovery of diapsids following the end-Permian mass extinction

Devin K. Hoffman, John P. Hancox, Sterling J. Nesbitt

Geochemistry and provenance of Mesozoic sandstones in Khon Kaen Geopark: Implication for tectonics of the western Khorat Plateau of Thailand

Vimoltip Singtuen, Burapha Phajuy, [ ... ], Heiner Heggemann

Unique trackway on Permian Karoo shoreline provides evidence of temnospondyl locomotory behaviour

David P. Groenewald, Ashley Krüger, [ ... ], Bruce S. Rubidge

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