Paleontology

Latest research

1. Recent Advances in Medical Geology Research in Africa: A Decadal View

   • Theophilus Clavell Davies

   in SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences

   Book 2026

   

2. Mummified cave cheetahs inform rewilding actions in Saudi Arabia

   • Ahmed Al Boug
   • Zaffar R. Mir
   • Carlos M. Duarte

   in Communications Earth & Environment

   Article Open access 15 January 2026

   

3. Je considère les babouins du Mozambique comme une fenêtre sur l’évolution des hominidés

   • Patricia Maia Noronha

   in Nature Africa

   Article 14 January 2026

   

4. Ice age wolf pup’s stomach yields rare DNA from woolly rhino

   • Rachel Fieldhouse

   in Nature

   Article 14 January 2026

   

5. The first Data on the Age of Xenotime from Argillites of the Segozero Structure (Karelian Craton): Results of U–Pb (ID TIMS) Geochronological Studies

   • M. A. Sukhanova
   • E. B. Salnikova
   • K. N. Bessmertnyi

   in Doklady Earth Sciences

   Article 14 January 2026

   

6. Ancestral Northern Red-Backed Vole from the Early Pleistocene of Western Siberia

   • A. V. Borodin
   • A. S. Tesakov

   in Doklady Earth Sciences

   Article 14 January 2026

   

7. How did birds evolve? The answer is wilder than anyone thought

   • Michael Marshall

   in Nature

   Article 13 January 2026

   

8. Should the Loch Ness Monster have a scientific name?

   in Nature

   Article 13 January 2026

   

9. Fluctuating seafloor oxygenation before, during and after the Frasnian/Famennian crisis: Quantitative colour analysis and geochemistry of Upper Devonian marine red beds, Montagne Noire, S. France

   • Ondřej Bábek
   • Tomáš Kumpan
   • Catherine Girard

   in Facies

   Article Open access 13 January 2026

   

10. Permian and triassic limestones in the Chae Hom area, North Lampang, Sukhothai Zone, Thailand: facies, palaeoenvironments and tectonic setting

    • Kritsada Moonpa
    • Thasinee Charoentitirat
    • Thamonwan Na Ranong

    in Facies

    Article 09 January 2026

    

11. Face to face with a Denisovan

    • Luíseach Nic Eoin

    in Nature Ecology & Evolution

    Article 09 January 2026

12. Larger benthic foraminifera bearing limestones of Early to Middle Eocene Dalbuing Formation, Yinkiong Group, Eastern himalaya: insights into depositional condition and diagenesis

    • Anannya Bordoloi
    • Chaitra Dhar Taye
    • Ananya Chutia

    in Carbonates and Evaporites

    Article 08 January 2026

    

13. Early hominins from Morocco basal to the Homo sapiens lineage

    • Jean-Jacques Hublin
    • David Lefèvre
    • Abderrahim Mohib

    in Nature

    Article Open access 07 January 2026

    

14. Footprint morphology sheds light on running strategies in non-avian theropods

    • Ignacio Díaz-Martínez
    • Pablo Navarro-Lorbés
    • Paolo Citton

    in Scientific Reports

    Article Open access 07 January 2026

    

15. Of all the quarries: Casablanca fossils reveal African ancestors of Homo sapiens

    • Antonio Rosas

    in Nature

    Article 07 January 2026

    

16. Daily briefing: How 400-year-old sharks keep their vision sharp

    • Flora Graham

    in Nature

    Article 07 January 2026

    

17. A hidden diversity of ceratopsian dinosaurs in Late Cretaceous Europe

    • Susannah C. R. Maidment
    • Richard J. Butler
    • Attila Ősi

    in Nature

    Article 07 January 2026

    

18. Subsistence Behaviors of Prehistoric Humans: the Case of Quaternary Vertebrates from El Harhoura 1 Cave (Temara-Rabat, Morocco)

    • Hassan Aouraghe
    • Hicham Mhamdi

    in Geoheritage

    Article 06 January 2026

    

19. I see Mozambique’s baboons as windows into hominid evolution

    • Patricia Maia Noronha

    in Nature

    Article 05 January 2026

    

20. Atlas of Tropical Carbonates

    • José A. Méndez Dot
    • José Méndez Baamonde

    Book 2026

    

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