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Herbstosaurus 2025

Science and Technology | Mar 18 2025 07:4312

More news on tree shrews: not related to primates

Science and Technology | Mar 18 2025 07:2211

Tree shrews and Early Cretaceous ancestors linked and segregated

Science and Technology | Mar 16 2025 19:4319

A deep time genomic fail at the AMNH

Science and Technology | Mar 15 2025 15:4113

Junior synonyms for Gnathosaurus: several mistakes noted

Science and Technology | Mar 14 2025 18:0914

Mixodectes enters the LRT with Apatemys and Labidolemur, not pre-primates

Science and Technology | Mar 13 2025 21:4118

Akkedops: new name for the assembly of ‘juvenile Youngina’ + 2 new skulls

Science and Technology | Mar 13 2025 00:0117

Insectivore ancestors to extant odontocetes

Science and Technology | Mar 11 2025 00:4334

Early Cretaceous Sinobaatar: another Mesozoic aye-aye

Science and Technology | Mar 10 2025 23:4312

LRT mammal clade with niches indicated

Science and Technology | Mar 08 2025 18:3357

A small clade of basal placental1 taxa derived from Vulpavus

Science and Technology | Mar 07 2025 18:2221

Another finger 5 on a pterosaur

Science and Technology | Mar 04 2025 23:0137

A new compsognathid nests as the basalmost tyrannosaur in the LRT

Science and Technology | Feb 26 2025 14:099

Herbstosaurus 2025

Science and Technology | Feb 25 2025 15:1714

Another bogus hypothesis on pterosaur origins omits the actual ptero ancestors

Science and Technology | Feb 24 2025 20:4926

Early Cretaceous Vincelestes compared to extant Sarcophilus, the Tasmanian devil

Science and Technology | Feb 23 2025 22:0926

Baminornis enters the LRT

Science and Technology | Feb 23 2025 15:4916

Updated origin of pangolins: from Leptictis

Science and Technology | Feb 23 2025 10:1724

In the LRT the clade Primates now includes odontocetes and anteaters

Science and Technology | Feb 22 2025 22:2224

Premolar 4? Or molar 1? Good question.

Science and Technology | Feb 21 2025 16:0917

Marsupial ‘tree shrews’ vs placental ‘tree shrews’

Science and Technology | Feb 21 2025 00:0110

Early Cretaceous Sinobaatar: another Mesozoic aye-aye

Science and Technology | Feb 19 2025 18:5710

Early Cretaceous Ambolestes has two extant relatives

Science and Technology | Feb 19 2025 07:2210

Aegyptopithecus: basal to monkeys and baboons

Science and Technology | Feb 19 2025 07:017

The transitional cheek bones of Ochotona, the pika

Science and Technology | Feb 17 2025 16:2218

In the LRT the clade Primates now includes odontocetes and anteaters

Science and Technology | Feb 16 2025 14:4122

Origin of hedgehogs #2: this time from ringtail possums

Science and Technology | Feb 15 2025 20:2251

Step-by-step: how nature evolved a ‘walking-whale’ skull

Science and Technology | Feb 14 2025 15:3314

Adding another Hyopsodus specimen resolves issues

Science and Technology | Feb 13 2025 20:3312

Baminornis enters the LRT

Science and Technology | Feb 12 2025 21:4937

Inner ear study involving ‘Afrotheria’

Science and Technology | Feb 12 2025 21:4117

Bamiornis enters the LRT close to the Liaoning embryo bird

Science and Technology | Feb 12 2025 20:2518

Origin of hedgehogs from primates via phylogenetic miniaturization

Science and Technology | Feb 12 2025 15:1716

Monkeys at the transition from baboons to apes

Science and Technology | Feb 11 2025 20:0918

Extinct Proargyrolagus linked to extant Dromiciops, both marsupials from Bolivia

Science and Technology | Feb 10 2025 20:2217

Goodbye Xenarthra: no longer monophyletic in the LRT

Science and Technology | Feb 09 2025 14:0931

Aegyptopithecus: basal to monkeys and baboons

Science and Technology | Feb 08 2025 21:4921

Update: Numbats now nest with Bushy-Tailed Opossums in the LRT

Science and Technology | Feb 08 2025 10:2515

Arsinoitherium, Uintatherium and Gobiatherium redux

Science and Technology | Feb 07 2025 14:5710

The origin of glyptodonts – not from armadillos

Science and Technology | Feb 06 2025 15:3317

Vegavis skull 2025: taxon exclusion and genomics adversely affect this study

Science and Technology | Feb 06 2025 08:0933

Sminthopsis enters the LRT with other dasyurids

Science and Technology | Feb 05 2025 16:2216

Inner ear study involving ‘Afrotheria’

Science and Technology | Feb 04 2025 14:2519

Multituberculates and Carpolestes

Science and Technology | Feb 03 2025 17:4915

Convergent no more: Talpa moves to the placental2 clade

Science and Technology | Feb 03 2025 17:1710

Dissacus and Callistoe: together at last

Science and Technology | Feb 02 2025 15:0918

Marsupial moles Ottoryctes and Notoryctes compared

Science and Technology | Feb 01 2025 15:226

Nanoparia: now a juvenile Provelosaurus

Science and Technology | Jan 31 2025 14:2514

Update: Numbats now nest with Bushy-Tailed Opossums in the LRT

Science and Technology | Jan 30 2025 19:333

Mesosaurus caudal vertebrae divisions reviewed

Science and Technology | Jan 30 2025 19:333

Hedgehog Day 3: Ottoryctes leaves hedgehogs, joins Asioryctes in the LRT

Science and Technology | Jan 30 2025 19:332

Hedgehog Day 2: Nesting the former hedgehog Brachyerix with Carpolestes

Science and Technology | Jan 28 2025 15:5712

Hemiechinus, a basal hedgehog, enters the LRT

Science and Technology | Jan 28 2025 07:4314

Origin of dinosaurs: close to the equator?

Science and Technology | Jan 26 2025 17:4140

Dearc 2025

Science and Technology | Jan 24 2025 14:2516

Homo neanderthalensis gets standard DGS colors

Science and Technology | Jan 23 2025 16:1713

Echinoschimaera enters the LRT basal to Belantsea

Science and Technology | Jan 22 2025 19:2533

Babyrousa, the North Selawesi babirusa, enters the LRT

Science and Technology | Jan 21 2025 21:3327

Sabertooth YouTube video

Science and Technology | Jan 21 2025 06:4316

Phylogenetic miniaturization at the hippo-to-pig transition

Science and Technology | Jan 19 2025 18:0914

Thylacoleo ancestors in the LRT

Science and Technology | Jan 19 2025 06:1720

Weasels and otters in the LRT

Science and Technology | Jan 18 2025 16:2513

Revisions to Vintana and Adalatherium move them to the stylinodontids

Science and Technology | Jan 18 2025 00:0910

Amphicticeps enters the LRT with Cynogale, the otter civet

Science and Technology | Jan 17 2025 14:5713

Masrasector now links to Didymoconus berkeyi in the LRT

Science and Technology | Jan 16 2025 15:3314

Oodectes: a phylogenetically miniaturized Merycoidodon

Science and Technology | Jan 15 2025 16:227

Petaurus evolution in three directions

Science and Technology | Jan 14 2025 14:3314

The origin of shrews 2024

Science and Technology | Jan 13 2025 16:1717

Tiny Barinya and giant Andrewsarchus now nest together in the LRT

Science and Technology | Jan 12 2025 19:4132

Castoroides, the giant beaver, enters the LRT

Science and Technology | Jan 12 2025 06:3329

Milleropsis (Gow 1972) revisited in 2025

Science and Technology | Jan 11 2025 14:1722

A new ‘spiny’ Silurian mollusc

Science and Technology | Jan 11 2025 05:4118

Marsupial mole gene study 2025: not all secrets unearthed

Science and Technology | Jan 10 2025 08:3317

Lemur diversity gene study

Science and Technology | Jan 09 2025 15:4117

Carpolestes compares closely to Pseudocheirus

Science and Technology | Jan 09 2025 13:3311

Ahvaytum bahndooiveche: silesaurids are not dinosaurs

Science and Technology | Jan 08 2025 19:4115

Siamotherium: a lesson in convergence

Science and Technology | Jan 08 2025 17:4339

2025 ‘Archaeopteryx’ paper suffers from taxon exclusion

Science and Technology | Jan 07 2025 14:2512

Tetraclaenodon moves to the Marsupialia in the LRT

Science and Technology | Jan 06 2025 14:4116

Didymoconus: now a little Hyaenodon

Science and Technology | Jan 05 2025 16:5721

Apatemyids and marsupial ‘lions’ now nest together in the LRT

Science and Technology | Jan 04 2025 15:4920

Caecilian updates explained with standard DGS colors

Science and Technology | Jan 04 2025 13:0910

Ninumbeehan: a new basal tetrapod with side-by-side anterior nares

Science and Technology | Jan 03 2025 19:227

New paper describes the ‘giant’ Rhamphorhynchus described in 1888

Science and Technology | Jan 02 2025 17:4146

Palaeothentes compared to Labidolemur and Ottoryctes

Science and Technology | Jan 01 2025 21:2222

Carpolestes compares closely to Pseudocheirus

Science and Technology | Dec 31 2024 14:3318

Neobohaiornis: a new basal sapeornithid in the LRT

Science and Technology | Dec 30 2024 14:1721

Feduccia 2023 pushes the acetabulum into the ‘birds are dinosaurs’ hypothesis

Science and Technology | Dec 29 2024 16:1718

Alvarezsauria 2024: a new study in phylogenetic miniaturization

Science and Technology | Dec 28 2024 15:2315

Phosphatherium: now a big Paleocene hyrax/liptotern

Science and Technology | Dec 28 2024 06:0315

Eocene Apternodus and the extant shrew Scutisorex

Science and Technology | Dec 27 2024 21:0724

Origin of teeth 2024

Science and Technology | Dec 25 2024 20:0744

As everyone knows, beavers and pocket gophers are closely related

Science and Technology | Dec 24 2024 14:1525

Haeckel 1912 and the gibbon to human hypothesis

Science and Technology | Dec 23 2024 15:3114

Radinskya corrected: Now a Microsyops relative within Scandentia

Science and Technology | Dec 22 2024 19:0720

Vulpavids in the LRT

Science and Technology | Dec 21 2024 09:2829

Basal Mammalia to scale: Megazostrodon, Ukhaatherium and Morganucodon

Science and Technology | Dec 19 2024 15:3111

‘Primer Pterosaurs 2021’ needs a primer on pterosaurs

Science and Technology | Dec 18 2024 17:2837

New Majorca gorgonopsian: the oldest yet

Science and Technology | Dec 17 2024 14:5525

Stylinodontids are now pre-primates in the LRT

Science and Technology | Dec 16 2024 20:0725

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