Scientific Papers

Paleontologists are always making new discoveries and conducting new studies. Here you'll find scientific papers that have been recently released.

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11/5/24

Microstructure and development of the dermal ossicles of Antarctopelta oliveroi (Dinosauria, Ankylosauria): A complex morphogenetic system deciphered through three-dimensional X-ray microtomography

11/4/24

Extremely rapid, yet noncatastrophic, preservation of the flattened-feathered and 3D dinosaurs of the Early Cretaceous of China

10/30/24

Immature skulls of the theropod dinosaur Coelophysis bauri from Ghost Ranch, New Mexico

10/30/24

Endocranial morphology of three early-diverging ceratopsians and implications for the behavior and the evolution of the endocast in ceratopsians

10/30/24

A new sauropod dinosaur hindlimb from the Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation, Isle of Wight, UK

10/30/24

A brief review of non-avian dinosaur biogeography: state-of-the-art and prospectus

10/28/24

Correlation of sub-centennial-scale pulses of initial Central Atlantic Magmatic Province lavas and the end-Triassic extinctions

10/28/24

Occurrence of Centrosaurus apertus (Ceratopsidae: Centrosaurinae) in Saskatchewan, Canada, and expanded dinosaur diversity in the easternmost exposure of the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) Dinosaur Park Formation

10/25/24

Variability of spinosaurid teeth in the Barremian of the province of Teruel (eastern Spain)

10/24/24

A new oviraptorosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Miaogou Formation of western Inner Mongolia, China

10/21/24

Theropod trackways as indirect evidence of pre-avian aerial behavior

10/16/24

First Valanginian (Early Cretaceous) ornithopod (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from Patagonia

10/16/24

A new maniraptoran femur with alvarezsaurian affinities from the Plottier Formation (Coniacian-Santonian), northern Patagonia

10/14/24

The smallest known complete dinosaur fossil eggs from the Upper Cretaceous of South China

10/14/24

Cranial anatomy of Bagualia alba (Dinosauria, Eusauropoda) from the Early Jurassic of Patagonia and the implications for sauropod cranial evolution

10/9/24

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

10/9/24

A new carcharodontosaurid specimen sheds light on the anatomy of South American giant predatory dinosaurs

10/9/24

Upper Cretaceous sauropod dinosaur tracks, palaeosols, and sedimentary deposits - Bauru Group, southeastern Brazil

10/9/24

The ankylosaurid neomorphic skull elements

10/9/24

New theropod dinosaur remains from the Upper Cretaceous of the Kem Kem Group (Eastern Morocco) clarify spinosaurid morphology

10/8/24

A new diplodocine sauropod from the Morrison Formation, Wyoming, USA

10/8/24

Revealing the use of dental indices to infer taxonomic variation in sauropod dinosaurs

10/1/24

Preliminary Study on the Reconstruction and Function of the Hyperelongate Neural Spines in the Dorsal Vertebrae of Deinocheirus mirificus (Theropoda: Ornithomimosauria)

9/30/24

A new “silesaurid” from the oldest dinosauromorph-bearing beds of South America provides insights into the early evolution of bird-line archosaurs

9/30/24

Modified laminar bone did not stop sauropods from achieving large body sizes

9/27/24

Sauropod tail clubs from the Kota Formation (Lower to Middle Jurassic) of India and their implications for early sauropod evolution

9/25/24

A New Tyrant Dinosaur from the Late Campanian of Mexico Reveals a Tribe of Southern Tyrannosaurs

9/24/24

Forearm range of motion in Allosaurus fragilis (Dinosauria: Theropoda)

9/24/24

A new gansuid bird (Avialae, Euornithes) from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian) Jiufotang Formation of Jianchang, western Liaoning, China

9/19/24

A rare ‘flat-headed’ pachycephalosaur (Dinosauria: Pachycephalosauridae) from West Texas, USA, with morphometric and heterochronic considerations

9/18/24

First discovery of dinosaur tracks from the Lower Cretaceous Duoni Formation in eastern Tibet, China

9/17/24

Systematic of a Massively Constructed Specimen of Iguanodon galvensis (Ornithopoda, Iguanodontidae) from the Early Barremian (Early Cretaceous) of Eastern Spain

9/16/24

Calibrating the genomic clock of modern birds using fossils

9/14/24

Reassessment of a theropod ilium from the Kem Kem beds of Morocco and the evolution of ilia in Spinosauridae

9/12/24

Immature Daspletosaurus sp. specimens from the Dinosaur Park Formation provide insight into ontogenetically invariant tyrannosaurid cranial morphology

9/12/24

Mega El Niño instigated the end-Permian mass extinction

9/11/24

Palaeoenvironment and taphonomy of the Hypsilophodon Bed, Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation, Isle of Wight

9/10/24

Direct evidence of frugivory in the Mesozoic bird Longipteryx contradicts morphological proxies for diet

9/8/24

Biomechanics and morphological comparisons of the caudal region of titanosaurs from the Cretaceous of Brazil: Paleobiology and paleoecology inferences

9/8/24

Polar dinosaur tracks of the Wonthaggi Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Victoria, Australia and their palaeontological significance

9/6/24

Evolutionary trends in the skull morphology of sauropodomorph dinosaurs: a two-dimensional geometrical approach

9/4/24

A Spanish saltasauroid titanosaur reveals Europe as a melting pot of endemic and immigrant sauropods in the Late Cretaceous

9/4/24

Pauli Exclusion by n→π* Interactions: Implications for Paleobiology

9/2/24

Parental feeding in the dinosaur Lufengosaurus revealed through multidisciplinary comparisons with altricial and precocious birds

9/2/24

Parental feeding in the dinosaur Lufengosaurus revealed through multidisciplinary comparisons with altricial and precocious birds

9/2/24

A new neoceratopsian (Ornithischia, Ceratopsia) from the Lower Cretaceous Ohyamashimo Formation (Albian), southwestern Japan

9/1/24

Coahuilasaurus lipani, a New Kritosaurin Hadrosaurid from the Upper Campanian Cerro Del Pueblo Formation, Northern Mexico

8/28/24

Prey size and ecological separation in spinosaurid theropods based on heterodonty and rostrum shape

8/28/24

Endocranial development in non-avian dinosaurs reveals an ontogenetic brain trajectory distinct from extant archosaurs

8/28/24

Prey size and ecological separation in spinosaurid theropods based on heterodonty and rostrum shape

8/27/24

Neural canal ridges: A novel osteological correlate of postcranial neuroanatomy in dinosaurs

8/27/24

A new late-diverging non-hadrosaurid hadrosauroid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from southwest China: support for interchange of dinosaur faunas across East Asia during the Late Cretaceous

8/27/24

Analysis of very small-small theropod footprints data from Imilchil tracksite (Hig Central Atlas. Morocco). A concordance model for a global scale

8/27/24

The Early Cretaceous Borborema-Cameroon dinosaur dispersal corridor

8/26/24

Trophic evolution in ornithopod dinosaurs revealed by dental wear

8/23/24

Early Cretaceous dinosaur, bird and turtle tracks from the Lanzhou-Minhe Basin, Gansu Province, Northwest China

8/21/24

Bio-molecular analyses enable new insights into the taphonomy of feathers

8/20/24

The first dinosaur postcranial body fossils from the Lower Jurassic Kayenta Formation of Utah

8/20/24

A new theropod dinosaur from the Callovian Balabansai Formation of Kyrgyzstan

8/19/24

Caletodraco cottardi: A New Furileusaurian Abelisaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Cenomanian Chalk of Normandy (North-Western France)

8/17/24

Lower Cretaceous iguanodontian dinosaurs from the southwestern margin of Gondwana

8/16/24

Bioerosion trace fossils on dinosaur bones from the Lago Colhué Huapi Formation, Upper Cretaceous of Central Patagonia, Argentina

8/15/24

Ruthenium isotopes show the Chicxulub impactor was a carbonaceous-type asteroid

8/15/24

Virtual skeleton and body mass for revealing the life strategies of Sinosaurus

8/13/24

They all floated in the cretaceous: new rebbachisaurid (Sauropoda, Diplodocoidea) with a highly pneumatized skeleton from the Upper Cretaceous (lower Cenomanian) of Patagonia, Argentina

8/13/24

The smallest known specimen of Microraptor (Dinosauria: Dromaeosauridae) from the Jiufotang Formation in northeastern China

8/13/24

The smallest known specimen of Microraptor (Dinosauria: Dromaeosauridae) from the Jiufotang Formation in northeastern China

8/13/24

The dentition of the Late Jurassic dwarf sauropod Europasaurus holgeri from northern Germany: ontogeny, function, and implications for a rhamphotheca-like structure in Sauropoda

8/12/24

Skeletally immature individuals nest together in the phylogenetic tree of early dinosaurs

8/12/24

Mesozoic birds from southern Patagonia shed light on the early Antarctic avifauna

8/12/24

Femoral diversity in titanosaur sauropods from the Villalba de la Sierra Fm. (Central Spain): Implications for the characterization of faunal turnover in the Ibero-Armorican Late Cretaceous

8/11/24

A new ichnosite and ichnogenus from the Lower Cretaceous Rio do Peixe Basin, Brazil, with novel insights into the evolution of Titanosauriformes

8/8/24

Isolated theropod teeth from the Upper Cretaceous of Goias State (Brazil): northernmost occurrence of Abelisauridae from the Bauru Basin

8/6/24

Jurassic–Cretaceous boundary theropod tracks from the slope of the Fallen Feng, Chicheng, China: review and new observations

8/6/24

Description and osteohistology of two early immature enantiornithines (Aves: Ornithothoraces) from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota

7/31/24

Paleobiological implications of chevron pathology in the sauropodomorph Plateosaurus trossingensis from the Upper Triassic of SW Germany

7/25/24

The first deep-snouted tyrannosaur from Upper Cretaceous Ganzhou City of southeastern China

7/25/24

Early Cretaceous troodontine troodontid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Ohyamashimo Formation of Japan reveals the early evolution of Troodontinae

7/24/24

The first hadrosauroid eggshell from the Aix-en-Provence Basin (late maastrichtian) of France

7/24/24

Estimation of maximum body size in fossil species: A case study using Tyrannosaurus rex

7/24/24

Variation in the postcranial pneumaticity in derived titanosaurs (Dinosauria: Sauropoda)

7/23/24

A Hadrosauroid Vertebra from the Upper Cretaceous Izumi Group, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan

7/23/24

Miragaia tail biomechanics and defences. Evaluation of the tail mobility and resistance to loadings and collisions.

7/22/24

Classification of dinosaur footprints using machine learning

7/18/24

The evolution of the air sac system in theropod dinosaurs: Evidence from the Upper Cretaceous of Madagascar

7/17/24

A new Urbacodon (Theropoda, Troodontidae) from the Upper Cretaceous Iren Dabasu Formation, China: Implications for troodontid phylogeny and tooth biology

7/16/24

Carnivorous dinosaurs of the Late Cretaceous Bauru Group in Central Brazil: records, diversity, taxonomic composition and paleobiogeography

7/15/24

The first troodontid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous Baruungoyot Formation of Mongolia

7/11/24

Appendicular myology of Skorpiovenator bustingorryi: A first attempt to reconstruct pelvic and hindlimb musculature in an abelisaurid theropod

7/11/24

Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous dinosaur track assemblages from northwestern Hebei Province, China: implications for paleoenvironment and paleoecology

7/10/24

The osteology of the wrist of Heyuannia huangi (Oviraptorosauria) and its implications for the wrist folding mechanism

7/9/24

Unraveling sauropod diversity in the Portezuelo Formation of Patagonia through a comprehensive analysis of new and existing material

7/9/24

Comptonatus chasei, a new iguanodontian dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight, southern England

7/9/24

A new semi-fossorial thescelosaurine dinosaur from the Cenomanian-age Mussentuchit Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah

7/8/24

A new phylogeny for Aves is compromised by pervasive misalignment and homology problems

7/8/24

Stratigraphic Reassessment of the Mexican Chasmosaurine Coahuilaceratops magnacuerna as the First Diagnostic Dinosaur Remains from the Cerro Huerta Formation (Lower Maastrichtian) Supporting the Southern Origin of the Triceratopsini

7/3/24

Earliest evidence of avian primary feather moult

7/3/24

Sauropod dinosaur tracks from the Purbeck Group (Early Cretaceous) of Spyway Quarry, Dorset, UK

7/2/24

Mandibular force profiles of Alioramini (Theropoda: Tyrannosauridae) with implications for palaeoecology of this unique lineage of tyrannosaurid dinosaurs

7/2/24

A new stegosaur (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Middle Jurassic of Gansu Province, China

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