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Achaenodon robustus enters the LRT between hippos and anthracobunids

Science and Technology | Jan 17 2022 13:429

Euparkeria and the origin of birds… and pterosaurs

Science and Technology | Jan 16 2022 13:1715

Pakicetid ancestors

Science and Technology | Jan 15 2022 13:3339

In Protopterus and Neoceratodus the premaxilla, maxilla and dentary disappear

Science and Technology | Jan 14 2022 14:4214

Sticking to their guns: Three paleontologists and their pet hypotheses

Science and Technology | Jan 13 2022 13:2630

The el Montsec bird enters the LRT basal to the Sulcavis clade

Science and Technology | Jan 12 2022 13:3310

Early Cretaceous Schizooura enters the LRT between Enantiornithes and Euornithes

Science and Technology | Jan 11 2022 13:4215

Archaeorhynchus juvenile? Or new species?

Science and Technology | Jan 10 2022 13:0948

What are brontotheres?

Science and Technology | Jan 09 2022 13:2544

Pachynolophus and Palaeotherium enter the LRT basal to giant horses

Science and Technology | Jan 08 2022 14:4116

Late Cretaceous loon, Polarornis: more evidence for a long Cretaceous evolution of crown birds

Science and Technology | Jan 07 2022 14:024

Paratriisodon: Yes! This mandible is a good match for Andrewsarchus.

Science and Technology | Jan 06 2022 15:3414

Dalla Vecchia overlooks the lacrimal in Batrachognathus and Jeholopterus

Science and Technology | Jan 06 2022 00:1840

Longipteryx enters the LRT with gastralia AND a large sternum

Science and Technology | Jan 05 2022 13:0922

The giant ichthyosaur, Temnodontosaurus, enters the LRT

Science and Technology | Jan 04 2022 13:1852

Are compsognathids juveniles of larger theropods?

Science and Technology | Jan 03 2022 13:4113

A new and bigger ‘Cymbospondylus’ enters the LRT

Science and Technology | Jan 02 2022 15:1711

Tip Toe the tortoise video

Science and Technology | Jan 01 2022 23:22160

The counterplate of bipedal Magnuviator

Science and Technology | Dec 31 2021 14:5725

Lycopsis nests with basal terrestrial placentals in the LRT, contra prior studies

Science and Technology | Dec 30 2021 14:2510

Fortunguavis enters the LRT about to reduce its postorbital

Science and Technology | Dec 29 2021 13:258

Water monitor video on YouTube

Science and Technology | Dec 28 2021 13:0971

December 2021 updates to the bird subset of the LRT

Science and Technology | Dec 27 2021 13:1720

Meet Songzia, a corn crake from the Early Eocene

Science and Technology | Dec 26 2021 19:4333

Extinct Scandiavis and extant Sturnus, the starling, enter the LRT

Science and Technology | Dec 25 2021 13:4128

Glyptolepis, a wide-skull lobe-fin fish, enters the LRT and splits up the Porolepiformes

Science and Technology | Dec 24 2021 13:1815

Early Cretaceous Iteravis enters the LRT as a new last common ancestor of crown birds

Science and Technology | Dec 23 2021 13:4117

Overlooked and infamous ancestors to Hesperornis in the LRT

Science and Technology | Dec 22 2021 13:4916

Gansus zheni enters the LRT with skull data lacking in Gansus yumenensis

Science and Technology | Dec 21 2021 15:013

Small Late Cretaceous pterosaur tracks from Korea: close to Sinopterus

Science and Technology | Dec 20 2021 13:4913

Another Early Cretaceous crown bird: Archaeorhynchus enters the LRT nesting with extant Megapodius

Science and Technology | Dec 19 2021 13:496

Gallinuloides enters the LRT with crowned cranes, not with megapodes

Science and Technology | Dec 18 2021 13:5727

When pterosaurs walked: PBS Eons video

Science and Technology | Dec 17 2021 13:178

Sequiwaimanu: a Middle Paleocene ‘penguin’ nests with loons and grebes in the LRT

Science and Technology | Dec 16 2021 13:1711

Play this quick game called, “Taxon exclusion”

Science and Technology | Dec 15 2021 13:2626

Fish evolution: traditional vs the LRT

Science and Technology | Dec 14 2021 13:2510

The Origin and Relationships of Early Chondrichthyans sensu Grogan et al. 2004

Science and Technology | Dec 13 2021 13:2516

How birds barely survived the K-Pg extinction event

Science and Technology | Dec 12 2021 15:4427

Javelinadactylus enters the LPT with Shenzhoupterus

Science and Technology | Dec 11 2021 13:574

Long-awaited Quetzalcoatlus memoir published

Science and Technology | Dec 10 2021 15:2228

Sharovipteryx running animation

Science and Technology | Dec 09 2021 13:1810

How to tell a protorosaur from a tanystropheid

Science and Technology | Dec 08 2021 13:176

The small ground sloth, Hapalops, enters the LRT basal to two extant tree sloths

Science and Technology | Dec 07 2021 13:0916

Do you know how many lobe fin descendants had ray fins?

Science and Technology | Dec 06 2021 13:4911

Two turtles enter the LRT: giant, extinct Carbonemys and extant Podocnemis

Science and Technology | Dec 05 2021 13:5733

Megamastax, ‘the largest Silurian vertebrate’ is only known from a mandible, but did this genus have limbs?

Science and Technology | Dec 04 2021 13:0928

Millerosaurus nests with Milleropsis basal to Diapsida (sans Lepidosauriformes, of course)

Science and Technology | Dec 03 2021 13:2512

Plesiochelys enters the LRT basal to giant island turtles

Science and Technology | Dec 02 2021 13:176

Book Report: ‘Rhinoceros Giants’ by Donald R Prothero 2013

Science and Technology | Dec 01 2021 15:2211

Dwykaselachus: no longer ‘an enigmatic chondrichthyan’

Science and Technology | Nov 30 2021 13:3310

Little Ligulalepis grabbed headlines in 2018 (due to taxon exclusion)

Science and Technology | Nov 29 2021 13:2542

An awkward Dorygnathus model from a museum in Karlsruhe, Germany

Science and Technology | Nov 28 2021 17:4179

Cobelodus enters the LRT, but not at the base of all sharks and ratfish

Science and Technology | Nov 28 2021 13:096

Middle Devonian Gladbachus enters the LRT alongside the previously omitted whale shark, Rhincodon

Science and Technology | Nov 27 2021 14:4117

Gephyrostegus moves one node to the base of the Archosauromorpha

Science and Technology | Nov 26 2021 13:499

Milleretta and its unpopular and miscatergorized proximal descendants

Science and Technology | Nov 25 2021 13:0917

What is Eoscopus?

Science and Technology | Nov 24 2021 14:0235

Pasawioops, Plemmyradytes and Micropholis enter the LRT together as human, frog and dinosaur ancestors

Science and Technology | Nov 23 2021 14:0930

Cervifurca: the most remora-like of the odd Pennsylvanian iniopterygians

Science and Technology | Nov 22 2021 13:4118

A Late Cretaceous fish with a predentary: Prosaurodon enters the LRT

Science and Technology | Nov 21 2021 13:25553

Early Carboniferous, eel-like Chondronchelys enters the LRT, but not with ratfish

Science and Technology | Nov 20 2021 13:5718

Late Triassic Protoavis enters the LRT alongside Early Jurassic Panguraptor

Science and Technology | Nov 19 2021 16:0210

Tetrapodophis is not a snake? Lesson for today: Don’t omit pertinent taxa

Science and Technology | Nov 19 2021 09:5713

Odd Berthasaura enters the LRT alongside odd Limusaurus

Science and Technology | Nov 18 2021 13:098

The little skate, Leucoraja, enters the LRT with Rhinobatos

Science and Technology | Nov 17 2021 13:0111

Almadasuchus: a bigger basal crocodylomorph like Junggarsuchus

Science and Technology | Nov 16 2021 13:5710

Enigmatic Typhloesus wellsi: Now transitional between lancelets and sea cucumbers

Science and Technology | Nov 15 2021 13:1715

Delphyodontos: a young petalodont, not a finless cannibal embryo with an enlarged abdomen

Science and Technology | Nov 14 2021 13:0945

D3072: Not another Sinopterus dongi. A more complete relative of headless Wenupteryx and SMNS PAL 3830

Science and Technology | Nov 13 2021 13:1716

SVP 2021 abstracts – 29: Falcatakely, yet another misfit from the Maevarano Formation of Late Cretaceous Madagascar

Science and Technology | Nov 12 2021 14:174

SVP 2021 abstracts – 28: Arsinoitherium migration patterns

Science and Technology | Nov 12 2021 09:493

SVP 2021 abstracts – 27: Ornitholestes a basal oviraptorosaur? No.

Science and Technology | Nov 12 2021 00:4915

SVP 2021 abstracts – 26: Fossil bird diets

Science and Technology | Nov 11 2021 18:094

SVP 2021 abstracts – 25: Mysticete feeding modes

Science and Technology | Nov 11 2021 13:2614

SVP 2021 abstracts – 24: Archaeopteryx flight reduced? No.

Science and Technology | Nov 11 2021 10:2516

SVP 2021 abstracts – 23: Plesiadapiformes are still not stem primates

Science and Technology | Nov 11 2021 08:1711

SVP 2021abstracts – 22: Snake origins

Science and Technology | Nov 11 2021 00:5022

SVP 2021 abstracts – 21: Barbourofelis is ‘a unique cat’ because it’s not a cat

Science and Technology | Nov 10 2021 18:1822

SVP 2021 abstracts – 20: Origin of placental mammals

Science and Technology | Nov 10 2021 14:573

SVP 2021 abstracts – 19: A new (unnamed) basal sea croc

Science and Technology | Nov 10 2021 13:336

SVP 2021 abstracts: 18 – Arcticodactylus under the synchotron

Science and Technology | Nov 10 2021 12:499

SVP 2021 abstracts – 17: Bristol’s pterosaur quad launch study from 2019 returns

Science and Technology | Nov 10 2021 08:258

SVP 2021 abstract – 16: Stem gekko? Stem skink? Or neither?

Science and Technology | Nov 09 2021 18:2514

SVP 2021 abstracts – 15: The Tetrapod Crown

Science and Technology | Nov 09 2021 13:5010

SVP 2021 abstracts – 14: Trawdenia endoskeleton

Science and Technology | Nov 09 2021 12:1013

SVP 2021 abstracts – 12: Passerines

Science and Technology | Nov 09 2021 10:177

SVP Abstracts 2021 – 13: Mosaic evolution during the rise of the tetrapods

Science and Technology | Nov 09 2021 07:4914

SVP 2021 abstracts – 11: Evolution of dentition in Mammaliamorpha

Science and Technology | Nov 08 2021 21:0937

SVP 2021 abstracts – 10: Apterodon taxonomic issues

Science and Technology | Nov 08 2021 18:5716

SVP 2021 abstracts – 09: Dinosaur diversity missing? Still, no.

Science and Technology | Nov 08 2021 16:506

SVP 2021 abstracts – 08: Phylogeny of the Azhdarchoidea

Science and Technology | Nov 08 2021 13:4925

SVP 2021 abstracts – 07: Trilophosaurus an archosauromorph? Still, no.

Science and Technology | Nov 08 2021 06:334

Schaller 2007 reintroduced narrow chord pterosaur wings

Science and Technology | Nov 07 2021 18:2537

SVP 2021 abstracts – 06: Multituberculate bone histology more similar to placentals

Science and Technology | Nov 07 2021 18:0928

SVP 2021 abstracts – 05: Are kuehneosaurids basal archosauromorphs? Still, no.

Science and Technology | Nov 07 2021 13:1713

SVP 2021 abstracts – 04: Mysticetes are still not related to odontocetes

Science and Technology | Nov 07 2021 06:4912

SVP 2021 abstracts – 03: Don’t mix tenrecs with mongooses

Science and Technology | Nov 06 2021 20:4933

SVP 2021 abstracts – 02: Origin of amniotes

Science and Technology | Nov 06 2021 13:417

SVP 2021 abstracts – 01: Basal gnathostomes and their precursors

Science and Technology | Nov 06 2021 08:0225

Bear Gulch ‘ratfish’ Traquairius enters the LRT close to extant hammerjaws

Science and Technology | Nov 05 2021 14:1726

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