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Thalattosuchia 2024

Science and Technology | Apr 18 2024 14:5713

Novel spiny shark-to-bony fish transition series

Science and Technology | Apr 17 2024 15:0116

Herring and tarpon trace back to Devonian Cheirolepis

Science and Technology | Apr 16 2024 18:4123

The importance of plate tectonics for evolution 2024

Science and Technology | Apr 15 2024 22:5742

2024 pterosaur palate study focuses again on Dsungaripterus

Science and Technology | Apr 15 2024 03:5731

Reconstructing the palate of Pteranodon in 1910, 1993 and 2024

Science and Technology | Apr 14 2024 15:4940

Vaneechoutte et al 2023: Australopithecines Are Probably Not Our Ancestors

Science and Technology | Apr 13 2024 15:2529

The evolution of temnospondyl (amphibian) larvae

Science and Technology | Apr 12 2024 15:016

‘Systematics of Miocene apes’ excludes certain Miocene apes

Science and Technology | Apr 11 2024 16:2228

Toothy Feredocodon enters the LRT just outside the Mammalia

Science and Technology | Apr 10 2024 14:2564

Dianoconodon enters the LRT as the most primitive mammal

Science and Technology | Apr 09 2024 14:1735

New Jurassic fossils reveal (again) that our hearing evolved from reptilian Jawbones

Science and Technology | Apr 08 2024 19:2285

Crown and stem amniote problems: resolved by the LRT

Science and Technology | Apr 07 2024 14:3333

Tested lungfish in the LRT

Science and Technology | Apr 06 2024 14:4136

Basal Amiiformes in the LRT

Science and Technology | Apr 05 2024 14:0926

Brocklehurst and Field 2024 attempt to date the radiation of extant birds

Science and Technology | Apr 04 2024 15:2239

Late Jurassic Hybodus seems to have extant relatives in the LRT

Science and Technology | Apr 03 2024 14:2543

New bird genomic study, Stiller et al 2024, fails too often

Science and Technology | Apr 02 2024 14:2532

Padian 2024 pays homage to Ostrom 1974

Science and Technology | Apr 01 2024 15:4364

Anableps, the four-eyed fish, revised

Science and Technology | Mar 31 2024 14:1753

Another tiny hingemouth relative: Early Cretaceous Santanichthys

Science and Technology | Mar 30 2024 14:0928

T rex ontogeny video from YouTube

Science and Technology | Mar 29 2024 19:49146

Origin of fins that evolved to become fingers

Science and Technology | Mar 28 2024 19:4359

Bombastic claims for a lagerpetid braincase

Science and Technology | Mar 27 2024 09:5721

Whitephippus: a 3D Eocene moonfish

Science and Technology | Mar 26 2024 12:4338

How human is the hand of Homo naledi?

Science and Technology | Mar 25 2024 10:4363

Prolacertoides and Procynosuchus: perhaps an overlooked interrelationship

Science and Technology | Mar 23 2024 14:2512

Kermitops, a new tiny basal lissamphibian, enters the LRT

Science and Technology | Mar 23 2024 07:2559

Kermitops, a new tiny temnospondyl, enters the LRT

Science and Technology | Mar 22 2024 19:2244

Ptychodus: a Mesozoic shark fossil stolen and recovered

Science and Technology | Mar 21 2024 14:3439

Coryphaena, the mahi-mahi, vs Malacanthus, the tile fish

Science and Technology | Mar 20 2024 14:0928

New Parvosaurus study suffers from taxon exclusion

Science and Technology | Mar 19 2024 14:4147

An overlooked comparison: Esox and a juvenile Arapaima

Science and Technology | Mar 18 2024 23:1758

North Korean anurognathid (Gao 2009) returns

Science and Technology | Mar 18 2024 08:4335

News (and more myth) about Trachelosaurus from Germany

Science and Technology | Mar 16 2024 15:4947

An excellent online history of lampreys and hagfish

Science and Technology | Mar 15 2024 21:0118

Pomatomus relatives updated

Science and Technology | Mar 14 2024 20:0171

Origin and evolution of the Cynodontia 2024

Science and Technology | Mar 13 2024 15:0118

A second convergent origin of the three-part operculum in bony fish illustrated

Science and Technology | Mar 12 2024 14:2530

Origin of the three-part operculum

Science and Technology | Mar 11 2024 19:4322

Helicoprion ancestors provide post-crania clues

Science and Technology | Mar 10 2024 15:4931

Pycnodonts are blunt-toothed barracuda

Science and Technology | Mar 09 2024 15:5715

Cosmoselachus: likely closer to omitted taxa

Science and Technology | Mar 08 2024 16:1720

Meet Imparavis, a new ‘toothless’ enantiornithine

Science and Technology | Mar 08 2024 07:5726

2021 Paliguana paper suffers from taxon exclusion

Science and Technology | Mar 07 2024 14:4121

2023 ‘Youngina capensis’ paper mistakenly described a different genus

Science and Technology | Mar 06 2024 20:4647

Revisiting Meraxes, this time with DGS

Science and Technology | Mar 06 2024 15:2516

Giganotosaurus: a Late Cretaceous allosaur in the LRT

Science and Technology | Mar 05 2024 22:0937

The damselfish, Microspathodon, enters the LRT as a much needed transitional taxon

Science and Technology | Mar 05 2024 14:0914

Austronaga: a new macrocnemid tritosaur lepidosaur from Middle Triassic China

Science and Technology | Mar 04 2024 15:0915

When part of the jugal turned into the squamosal in Polypterus

Science and Technology | Mar 03 2024 18:2515

From Devonian Cheirolepis to Devonian Strunius (open-sea ancestors of pre-tetrapod lungfish)

Science and Technology | Mar 02 2024 16:3040

AMNH: time to update your iconic Pteranodon mount

Science and Technology | Mar 01 2024 18:4670

Anchovies, Pachycormiformes and Osteoglossiformes

Science and Technology | Mar 01 2024 16:1447

Perucetus not as big as hyped… you heard it here first

Science and Technology | Feb 29 2024 23:1463

Brocklehurst 2024 ventures into the ‘mammalian stem’ without a cladogram

Science and Technology | Feb 29 2024 14:1412

Watsonulus and its eel-like descendants

Science and Technology | Feb 28 2024 14:4635

The stargazer now nests more comfortably with the croaker in the LRT

Science and Technology | Feb 27 2024 14:5843

‘One of the earliest known stem elasmobranchs’ is another shark-like placoderm

Science and Technology | Feb 26 2024 14:4615

Tiny Fundulus can teach us something about giant Mola

Science and Technology | Feb 25 2024 15:3028

Nonvolant Jurassic Eurycormus joins the flying fish clade

Science and Technology | Feb 24 2024 21:0673

A 5m long Dinocephalosaurus must be seen to be believed

Science and Technology | Feb 23 2024 22:19434

Greg Paul’s iconic flying Quetzalcoatlus illustration: time for a revision

Science and Technology | Feb 22 2024 14:3062

Revisiting ‘Scomber’ voitestii

Science and Technology | Feb 21 2024 14:3022

Coelacanth phylogeny in the LRT and Gavinia goes under DGS

Science and Technology | Feb 20 2024 23:0652

Two ‘ugly’ fish find each other in the LRT

Science and Technology | Feb 20 2024 12:5871

Odd Cretaceous Aquilolamna provides the Bauplan for Devonian ancestors that also had pectoral spike-bars

Science and Technology | Feb 18 2024 17:5859

Early Permian Tridentinosaurus ‘finally reveals its true identity’ – not yet

Science and Technology | Feb 17 2024 15:2284

Tembeassu: an odd and rare extant knifefish enters the LRT

Science and Technology | Feb 16 2024 15:1436

Mesonychids > Mysticetes illustrated

Science and Technology | Feb 15 2024 19:1919

Revisiting Aquilolamna using Cladoselache kepleri as a Bauplan

Science and Technology | Feb 14 2024 14:5540

Finding and scoring vestigial elements in fish skulls

Science and Technology | Feb 13 2024 19:2031

Cladoselache kepleri is a flat-head shark close to flat-head placoderms

Science and Technology | Feb 12 2024 18:5552

Tiny Middle Devonian Millerosteus provides another Bauplan for the bits and pieces of Late Silurian Psarolepis

Science and Technology | Feb 11 2024 23:5925

Shipley et al 2024 report bipedalism in dinosaurs did NOT make them successful

Science and Technology | Feb 10 2024 14:4732

Small taxa at the origin of sharks and kin (= Chondrichthyes)

Science and Technology | Feb 09 2024 15:0724

You heard it here first: Recumbirostran ‘microsaurs’ are not amniotes

Science and Technology | Feb 09 2024 06:5961

A fourth origin for the ‘operculum’

Science and Technology | Feb 08 2024 15:2376

The “pterosaur dark ages” are not over

Science and Technology | Feb 07 2024 15:1524

A new partial pterosaur from Scotland: Ceoptera evansae – and a Palaeocast interview with lead author E Martin-Silverstone

Science and Technology | Feb 07 2024 07:5989

Origin of two clades of spiny sharks and one of spiny shark descendants

Science and Technology | Feb 06 2024 17:4121

Reconstructing extant Manta with the Bauplan of a Silurian placoderm, Qilinyu

Science and Technology | Feb 05 2024 14:1541

The batfish Ogcocephalus: a flat frogfish, not a weird goby

Science and Technology | Feb 04 2024 20:3927

Early Triassic Teyujagua postcrania

Science and Technology | Feb 04 2024 06:176

A little catfish, Trichomycterus punctulatus, enters the LRT alongside the tiny vampire catfish, Vandellia

Science and Technology | Feb 02 2024 21:4117

Alienacanthus: a Devonian sea robin, not a placoderm per se

Science and Technology | Feb 01 2024 15:5514

Technical Difficulties

Science and Technology | Jan 31 2024 15:2028

Manta cephalic lobes are derived from shark labial cartilages, former placoderm quadrates

Science and Technology | Jan 29 2024 07:3929

Hamiltonichthys updated

Science and Technology | Jan 28 2024 20:41175

Ordovician placoderm, Eriptychius, reconstructed in lateral view

Science and Technology | Jan 27 2024 15:4122

That a flattened placoderm, Dickosteus, gave rise to a flattened shark, Gladbachus, in the Middle Devonian should come as no surprise

Science and Technology | Jan 26 2024 14:0724

Ptyctodontid placoderms get a face lift

Science and Technology | Jan 25 2024 14:1528

More clues to the origin of arched placoderm jaws, ironically in Dicksonosteus

Science and Technology | Jan 24 2024 15:2031

Porphyrio, the swamp hen, enters the LRT, not with rails, but with other hens

Science and Technology | Jan 23 2024 14:0729

Tujiaaspis: a complete galeaspid, not just a head shield

Science and Technology | Jan 23 2024 10:3114

Tilt the skull of Kolymaspis to understand it better

Science and Technology | Jan 22 2024 14:4746

The big-eyed placoderm, Stenosteus, nests with the basal shark, Cobelodus

Science and Technology | Jan 21 2024 17:4125

Zanycteris, one of the tiniest mammals of all time, goes under µCT scanning

Science and Technology | Jan 20 2024 13:5956

Palaeospondylus rebuttal from Brownstein 2023

Science and Technology | Jan 20 2024 13:1546

Iniopteryx in situ preserves internal organs

Science and Technology | Jan 19 2024 20:41140

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