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Early Eocene Micrornatus enters the LRT, but not with Scomber, the mackerel

Science and Technology | Jan 28 2023 13:2520

Funcusvermis gilmorei is a new caecilian, but taxon exclusion mars this report

Science and Technology | Jan 27 2023 13:5725

The barracuda and the ladyfish

Science and Technology | Jan 26 2023 13:0928

Swordfish and sailfish: which came first, the sword or the sail?

Science and Technology | Jan 25 2023 13:2515

You heard it here first: Multituberculates had placental reproduction

Science and Technology | Jan 24 2023 13:2530

The ‘African ape model’ of human evolution in 2023

Science and Technology | Jan 23 2023 13:0150

A new ctenochasmatid, Balaenognathus, enters the large pterosaur tree

Science and Technology | Jan 22 2023 13:0946

Characters at the theropod – phytodinosaur split

Science and Technology | Jan 21 2023 13:1716

Let’s identify the trackmaker of those Early Permian ‘Dimetropus’ tracks from the Czech Republic

Science and Technology | Jan 20 2023 13:4118

Select derived actinopterygians according to the LRT

Science and Technology | Jan 19 2023 13:3336

Select basal Actinopterygia in phylogenetic order

Science and Technology | Jan 18 2023 13:1721

Silesauridae are paraphyletic according to Müller and Garcia 2023. Not true.

Science and Technology | Jan 17 2023 13:178

Marsupials tested by the LRT: sizes noted

Science and Technology | Jan 16 2023 21:2262

Sabertooth marsupials

Science and Technology | Jan 15 2023 16:0121

South American Late Creteaceous Meraxes gigas enters the LRT with earlier theropods from China

Science and Technology | Jan 14 2023 13:4316

Professor Kevin Padian celebrates the 25th anniversary of the first known feathered dinosaurs

Science and Technology | Jan 13 2023 08:4914

Contra White et al 2023, Niptomomys is not a primate

Science and Technology | Jan 12 2023 13:0920

Avimimus enters the LRT basal to therizinosaurs — not quite oviraptorosaurs

Science and Technology | Jan 11 2023 13:2526

Oviraptor and Scansoriopteryx. Are they closely related?

Science and Technology | Jan 11 2023 07:2511

A tiny extant bat enters the LRT. Plus living bat ancestors bounce around on YouTube.

Science and Technology | Jan 10 2023 13:4919

Competing bat cladogram based on genes

Science and Technology | Jan 09 2023 13:0917

Bemalambda enters the LRT. Was this a second or a third radiation of placentals derived from mouse-sized Monodelphis after the asteroid impact?

Science and Technology | Jan 08 2023 13:2535

Luopingosaurus looks like a pachypleurosur, but like Honghesaurus is basal to mesosaurs, thalattosaurs and ichthyosaurs

Science and Technology | Jan 07 2023 13:3353

What do mysticete songs mean? Ask a hippo.

Science and Technology | Jan 07 2023 07:0124

Anurognathids flew at night according to Clark and Hone 2023

Science and Technology | Jan 06 2023 13:3323

12th century Ta-prohm Cambodia temple carvings: it’s a style, not a stegosaur

Science and Technology | Jan 05 2023 13:2554

‘Decoupled’ Cratonavis enters the LRT with Zhongjianornis, not Chongmingia

Science and Technology | Jan 04 2023 13:1725

Three times the pelvic fin of ray-fin fish migrated back to the traditional pelvic area

Science and Technology | Jan 03 2023 13:0914

A blenny, Acanthemblemaria aceroi, enters the LRT basal to giant wolffish

Science and Technology | Jan 02 2023 13:4129

The bristlemouth, Gonostoma, resolves the Harpacanthus mouth problem

Science and Technology | Jan 01 2023 14:2546

Two Early Devonian flat head fish, Uranolophus and Janusiscus, now nest with another much more complete flat head, Guiyu, from the Late Silurian

Science and Technology | Dec 31 2022 13:0911

Meiacanthus, a little venomous Western Pacific blenny enters the LRT with the much larger North Atlantic wolffish, also with dentary fangs

Science and Technology | Dec 30 2022 13:5739

Anableps, the four-eyed fish, now nests with Periophthalmus, the mud skipper

Science and Technology | Dec 29 2022 15:0930

Neilpeartia: an Eocene frogfish

Science and Technology | Dec 29 2022 00:4316

Traditional bony evolved from spiny sharks in the LRT

Science and Technology | Dec 27 2022 13:0913

After analysis, Early Cretaceous Bishops is NOT the immediate sister to therian mammals

Science and Technology | Dec 26 2022 13:259

Timeline of Tetrapod and Reptile Origins

Science and Technology | Dec 25 2022 13:17726

Kolponomos enters the LRT basal to seals

Science and Technology | Dec 24 2022 13:2515

Odd Carboniferous Harpacanthus updated

Science and Technology | Dec 23 2022 13:0932

Kentrosaurus enters the LRT alongside Stegosaurus

Science and Technology | Dec 22 2022 13:5020

New data on the skeleton of Ichthyornis, a Cretaceous sea bird

Science and Technology | Dec 21 2022 13:2515

Pentanogomius is now a swordfish and eel ancestor

Science and Technology | Dec 20 2022 13:3316

Zhu, Ahlberg and Zhu 2018 discuss the evolution of vertebrate dermal jaw bones

Science and Technology | Dec 19 2022 13:0914

New Caiuajara paper documents crest growth during ontogeny

Science and Technology | Dec 18 2022 13:0931

Spinosaurus: wet? dry? or with muddy feet?

Science and Technology | Dec 17 2022 13:4132

Early Triassic Prolacertoides is a squamate not a prolacertid

Science and Technology | Dec 16 2022 13:2518

Eocene Periphragnis enters the LRT alongside enigmatic Thomashuxleya

Science and Technology | Dec 15 2022 13:0911

Late Devonian Amazicthys enters the LRT close to little Millerosteus

Science and Technology | Dec 14 2022 14:178

Early Devonian Arctolepis enters the LRT basal to Ordovician Eriptychius

Science and Technology | Dec 13 2022 13:2518

Qikiqtania: another basal tetrapodomorph from way up North

Science and Technology | Dec 12 2022 13:0913

Shark gill slits: their genesis and multiple coverups with an operculum

Science and Technology | Dec 11 2022 13:1732

Miocene Galadi enters the LRT as an omnivorous opossum, not as a predatory bandicoot

Science and Technology | Dec 10 2022 14:2520

Miocene Barinya: a late surviving placental outgroup, not a dasyurid

Science and Technology | Dec 10 2022 11:578

Yuanchuavis skull reconstructed using DGS methods versus free hand

Science and Technology | Dec 09 2022 13:1743

Cute little, late-surviving, Late Jurassic Alligatorellus: sister to an armored herbivore, basal to a Late Triassic enigma and all extant crocs in the LRT

Science and Technology | Dec 08 2022 13:0912

Brownstein et al 2022 fail to find ‘the evolutionary origins of the prolonged extant squamate radiation’

Science and Technology | Dec 07 2022 13:4913

Eriptychius: Middle Ordovician placoderm pre-gnathostome enters the LRT

Science and Technology | Dec 06 2022 14:1714

Triassic crown squamate found in Bristol cabinets: still nowhere near the oldest

Science and Technology | Dec 05 2022 13:1741

Natovenator: a ?swimming theropod buried in eolian Gobi sands

Science and Technology | Dec 04 2022 13:2538

Pectoral evolution: from placoderms to pterosaurs

Science and Technology | Dec 03 2022 13:097

A mobile pterygoid creates superfluous worldwide headlines

Science and Technology | Dec 02 2022 14:3328

Maiothisavros dianeae: a tiny Early Permian ‘diapid’ enters the LRT as the earliest archosauriform

Science and Technology | Dec 01 2022 13:3433

Laser stimulated fluorescence literally sheds new light on early bird soft tissue

Science and Technology | Nov 30 2022 13:1712

Oldest Pterodactylus?

Science and Technology | Nov 29 2022 13:1740

A basal bony fish with disappearing spines and appearing ray fins

Science and Technology | Nov 28 2022 14:1717

Lepidogalaxia, with a bendable neck, has a deep sea relative, Malacosteus, with an extremely bendable neck

Science and Technology | Nov 27 2022 13:4920

Daurlong: crests or no crests?

Science and Technology | Nov 26 2022 21:4112

How Early Devonian Brindabellaspis became a sister to coeval Diandongpetalichthys

Science and Technology | Nov 26 2022 13:496

Triassic ‘flying fish’, like Potanichthys, did not ‘fly’ according to the LRT

Science and Technology | Nov 25 2022 13:0917

Omphalosauridae: a new definition for a 1906 clade

Science and Technology | Nov 24 2022 19:4332

Tiny taxa at the placoderm > spiny shark transition and the genesis of teeth

Science and Technology | Nov 23 2022 13:2514

New viperfish ancestors in the LRT: Leptolepis and Prohalecites

Science and Technology | Nov 22 2022 14:092

Mammal diversity study fails to reproduce gradual evolution

Science and Technology | Nov 21 2022 14:3320

Daurlong enters the LRT with Zhenyuanlong, but not with dromaesaurids

Science and Technology | Nov 20 2022 14:4110

Wang et al 2022 report: Hanosaurus is the basalmost sauropterygiform comprising saurosphargids and sauropterygians.

Science and Technology | Nov 19 2022 13:2524

Tiny Romundina nests between arthrodire and ptyctodontid placoderms

Science and Technology | Nov 18 2022 13:339

Neoceti – avoid this taxon, too.

Science and Technology | Nov 17 2022 13:4115

SVP 2022 abstracts – 19: on Wyolestes, an Eocene enigma

Science and Technology | Nov 16 2022 15:335

Guiyu updated

Science and Technology | Nov 16 2022 14:0933

SVP 2022 abstracts – 18: on Deltatherium

Science and Technology | Nov 15 2022 19:2520

SVP abstracts – 17: on the clade Crocodylomorpha

Science and Technology | Nov 15 2022 13:0917

SVP abstract – 16 : on water launch in Nyctosaurus

Science and Technology | Nov 14 2022 21:1740

SVP abstracts – 15: on the skull of Vegavis, a latest Cretaceous bird from Antarctica

Science and Technology | Nov 14 2022 13:0113

SVP abstracts – 14: on the evolution of the clade Placentalia

Science and Technology | Nov 13 2022 17:0945

SVP abstracts – 13: on lagerpetids

Science and Technology | Nov 13 2022 13:0917

SVP abstracts – 12: on larval stem tetrapods

Science and Technology | Nov 12 2022 17:5731

SVP abstracts – 11: on the exclusion of Bavarisaurus from Squamata

Science and Technology | Nov 12 2022 13:3411

SVP abstracts – 10 on Nyctitheriidae and the origin of bats

Science and Technology | Nov 11 2022 21:5715

A closer look at the wrist and wingtip of the ROM Rhamphorhynchus

Science and Technology | Nov 11 2022 13:4154

SVP abstracts – 9 on Milleretta and Milleropsis

Science and Technology | Nov 10 2022 22:1713

SVP abstracts – 8 on Bolosaurus

Science and Technology | Nov 10 2022 14:416

SVP abstracts – 7 on mesosaurs

Science and Technology | Nov 09 2022 18:0912

SVP abstracts – 6 on Westlothiana

Science and Technology | Nov 09 2022 14:178

SVP abstracts – 5 on a new cranium attributed to Chriacus

Science and Technology | Nov 08 2022 22:1732

Heterodontus: now nesting basal to ratfish AND angelsharks + rays

Science and Technology | Nov 08 2022 13:2521

SVP abstracts – 4 on parrots and falcons

Science and Technology | Nov 07 2022 19:016

Resolving the Pholidophorus problem

Science and Technology | Nov 07 2022 13:3329

SVP 2022 abstracts – 2 and 3 on pterosaur origins and radiations

Science and Technology | Nov 06 2022 21:416

Leftover placoderm traits found in spiny sharks

Science and Technology | Nov 06 2022 13:0923

SVP abstracts – 1 Thanatosdrakon: still not an azhdarchid

Science and Technology | Nov 05 2022 16:4132

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