An Italian dinosaur Lagerstätte reveals the tempo and mode of hadrosauriform body size evolution

Read more by Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza, Matteo Fabbri, Lorenzo Consorti, Marco Muscioni, David C. Evans, Juan L. Cantalapiedra & Federico Fanti. Published on Scientific Reports. 02 December 2021

Bird nests as botanical time capsules: DNA barcoding identifies the contents of contemporary and historical nests

Read more by Alex Rinkert, Tracy M. Misiewicz, Benjamin E. Carter, Aleezah Salmaan, Justen B. Whittall. Published on Plos One. 06 October 2021

The first edentulous ceratosaur from South America

Read more by Geovane Alves de Souza, Marina Bento Soares, Luiz Carlos Weinschütz, Everton Wilner, Ricardo Tadeu Lopes, Olga Maria Oliveira de Araújo & Alexander Wilhelm Armin Kellner. Published on  Scientific Reports. 18 November 2021

A partial skeleton provides evidence for the former occurrence of moa populations on Rakiura Stewart Island

Read more by Alexander J. F. Verry, Matthew Schmidt and Nicolas J. Rawlence. Published on New Zealand Journal of Ecology. 15 November 2021

Archaeogenetic analysis of Neolithic sheep from Anatolia suggests a complex demographic history since domestication

Read more by Erinç Yurtman, Onur Özer, Füsun Özer et al Published on communications biology. 12 November 2021

Evolutionary and phylogenetic insights from a nuclear genome sequence of the extinct, giant, “subfossil” koala lemur Megaladapis edwardsi

Read more by Stephanie Marciniak, Mehreen R. Mughal, Laurie R. Godfrey, Richard J. Bankoff, Heritiana Randrianatoandro, Brooke E. Crowley, Christina M. Bergey,et al Published on PNAS. 29 June 2021

Nuclear preservation in the cartilage of the Jehol dinosaur

Read more by Xiaoting Zheng, Alida M. Bailleul, Zhiheng Li, Xiaoli Wang, Zhonghe Zhou . Published on Communications Biology. 24 September 2021

Potential applications of biomolecular archaeology to the ecohistory of sea turtles and groupers in Levant coastal antiquity

Read more by Rachel M.Winter, Willemiende Kock, Per J.Palsbøll, Canan Çakirlar. Published on Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. April 2021

Earliest evidence of herd-living and age segregation amongst dinosaurs

Read more by Diego Pol, Adriana C. Mancuso, Roger M. H. Smith, Claudia A. Marsicano, Jahandar Ramezani, Ignacio A. Cerda, Alejandro Otero & Vincent Fernandez. Published on Scientific Reports. 21 October 2021

Exceptionally preserved beetles in a Triassic coprolite of putative dinosauriform origin

Read more by Martin Qvarnström, Martin Fikáček, Joel Vikberg Wernström, Sigrid Huld, Rolf G. Beutel, Emmanuel Arriaga-Varela, Per E. Ahlberg, Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki. Published on Current Biology. 30 June 2021

The origins and spread of domestic horses from the Western Eurasian steppes

Read more by Pablo Librado, Naveed Khan, Ludovic Orlando et al Published on Nature. 20 October 2021

Crab in amber reveals an early colonization of nonmarine environments during the Cretaceous

Read more by Javier Luque, Lida Xing, Derek E.G.Briggs, Elizabeth G.Clark, Alex Duque, Junbo Hui, Huijuan Mai and Ryan C.Mckellar. Published on Science Advances. 20 October 2021

A Zooarchaeological Study on the Origins of Animal Domestication in Ancient China

Read more by Yuan Jing. Published on Chinese Annals of History of Science and Technology. 28 September 2021

Local animal economies during the nineteenth-century caravan trade along the Lower Pangani, northeastern Tanzania: a zooarchaeological perspective

Read more by Thomas J. Biginagwa & Paul J. Lane. Published on Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa. 08 July 2021

A tardigrade in Dominican amber

Read more by Marc A. Mapalo, Ninon Robin, Brendon E. Boudinot, Javier Ortega-Hernández and Phillip Barden. Published on the Royal Society. 06 October 2021

Modern Siberian dog ancestry was shaped by several thousand years of Eurasian-wide trade and human dispersal

Read more by Tatiana R. Feuerborn, Alberto Carmagnini, Robert J. Losey, Tatiana Nomokonova, Arthur Askeyev, Igor Askeyev, Oleg Askeyev, Ekaterina E. Antipina, et al. Published on PNAS. 28 September 2021

Cattle management in an Iron Age/Roman settlement in the Netherlands: Archaeozoological and stable isotope analysis

Read more by Maaike Groot, Umberto Albarella, Jana Eger, Jane Evans. Published on Plos One. 01 October 2021

Genomic evidence for the Chinese mountain cat as a wildcat conspecific (Felis silvestris bieti) and its introgression to domestic cats

Read more by Il Yu, Yue-Ting Xin, Ghao Meng, Bing He, Wen-Jing Li, Xin-Zhang Qi, Jian-you Zhao, Yan Zhuang, Xiao Xu et al Published on Science Advances. 23 June 2021

Modern Siberian dog ancestry was shaped by several thousand years of Eurasian-wide trade and human dispersal

Read more by Tatiana R. Feuerborn, Alberto Carmagnini, Robert J. Losey, Tatiana Nomokonova, Arthur Askeyev, Igor Askeyev, Oleg Askeyev, et al Published on PNAS. 28 September 2021

Sperm whales in the Neolithic Mediterranean: a tooth from the sanctuary of Monte d’Accoddi (Sardinia, Italy)

Read more by Maria Grazia Melis and Marco Zedda Published on Antiquity. 19 August 2021

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