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Prehistoric animals

Morphotypes, preservation, and taphonomy of dinosaur footprints, tail traces, and swim tracks in the largest tracksite in the world: Carreras Pampa (Upper Cretaceous), Torotoro National Park, Bolivia

Raúl Esperante, Jeremy A. McLarty, Kevin E. Nick, Lance R. Pompe, Roberto E. Biaggi, Helen D. Baltazar Medina, Nelson A. Llempen, Ángela B. Limachi Silvestri, Lourdes Lidia Mamani Quispe, Antonio Joaquín Garre Cano, Wilson Quiroga Saavedra, Germán Rocha Rodríguez

published 03 Dec 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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The Dino Study: Rationale and protocol for a randomized controlled trial of the Incredible Years Dinosaur Program with daily assessments

Rabia R. Chhangur, Eleonore H.M. Smalle, Gerdien van der Zwaag, Egon Dejonckheere

published 08 Sep 2025

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A ceratopsid-dominated tracksite from the Dinosaur Park Formation (Campanian) at Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada

Phil R. Bell, Brian J. Pickles, Sarah C. Ashby, Issy E. Walker, Sally Hurst, Michael Rampe, Paul Durkin, Caleb M. Brown

published 23 Jul 2025

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The evolution of bone-eating worm diversity in the Upper Cretaceous Chalk Group of the United Kingdom

Sarah Jamison-Todd, James D. Witts, Marc E. H. Jones, Deborah Tangunan, Kim Chandler, Paul Bown, Richard J. Twitchett

published 03 Apr 2025

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First unambiguous record of pneumaticity in the axial skeleton of alvarezsaurians (Theropoda: Coelurosauria)

G.J. Windholz, J.G. Meso, M.J. Wedel, M. Pittman

published 02 Apr 2025

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A new Middle Jurassic lagoon margin assemblage of theropod and sauropod dinosaur trackways from the Isle of Skye, Scotland

Tone Blakesley, Paige E. dePolo, Thomas J. Wade, Dugald A. Ross, Stephen L. Brusatte

published 02 Apr 2025

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A new metoposaurid (Temnospondyli) bonebed from the lower Popo Agie Formation (Carnian, Triassic) and an assessment of skeletal sorting

Aaron M. Kufner, Max E. Deckman, Hannah R. Miller, Calvin So, Brandon R. Price, David M. Lovelace

published 02 Apr 2025

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Fossil eggshell diversity of the Mussentuchit Member, Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah

Joshua Hedge, Ryan T. Tucker, Peter J. Makovicky, Lindsay E. Zanno

published 26 Feb 2025

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New information on Bonapartenykus (Alvarezsauridae: Theropoda) from the Allen Formation (middle Campanian-lower Maastrichtian) of Río Negro Province, Patagonia, Argentina clarifies the Patagonykinae body plan

Jorge Gustavo Meso, Jonah Nathaniel Choiniere, Mattia Antonio Baiano, Stephen Louis Brusatte, Juan Ignacio Canale, Leonardo Salgado, Diego Pol, Michael Pittman

published 30 Jan 2025

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Re-evaluation of the Bahariya Formation carcharodontosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) and its implications for allosauroid phylogeny

Maximilian Kellermann, Elena Cuesta, Oliver W. M. Rauhut

published 14 Jan 2025

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A new Late Cretaceous metatherian from the Williams Fork Formation, Colorado

Jaelyn Eberle, Joshua Cohen, John Foster, ReBecca Hunt-Foster, Andrew Heckert

published 23 Oct 2024

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New enantiornithine diversity in the Hell Creek Formation and the functional morphology of the avisaurid tarsometatarsus

Alexander D. Clark, Jessie Atterholt, John B. Scannella, Nathan Carroll, Jingmai K. O’Connor

published 09 Oct 2024

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