Pangolin scales are key to identifying the world's most trafficked mammals. A 3D analysis reveals how scale shape varies across species, offering forensic insights for conservation. Back scales are the best species identifiers . Benoît Moison et al.: buff.ly/40AalIn

Check out our new highly-citable entry, Southeast Asian Caves, in the 2nd edition Encyclopedia of Geoarchaeology, co-authored with two fantastic former PhD students of mine, Vito Hernandez & Conor McAdams #geoarchaeology Flinders Archaeology Flinders University link.springer.com/referenceworke…

#Review: Most of the world's largest flowers (genus #Rafflesia) are now on the brink of #extinction Pastor Malabrigo Jr., et al. 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pp… #LatestIssue Chris Thorogood Adriane Tobias (@adrianetobias.bsky.social) Wiley Plant Science

The Late‐Quaternary Extinctions Gave Rise to Functionally Novel Herbivore Assemblages - Schowanek - 2025 - Ecology and Evolution - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

New online! Palaeogenomic inference of biodiversity dynamics across Quaternary timescales bit.ly/3DJBYX5

Interesting article on the evolution and paleobiogeography of the Old World rhinos: "Only the rhinocerotines (modern rhinoceroses and kin) and gigantic elasmotheriines survived into the cold-dominated Pliocene–Pleistocene world" hal.umontpellier.fr/hal-04973018/d…

New story on the Avian Hybrids blog! Paraphyletic problems: The Azure Roller is nested within the Dollarbird avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/03/26/par… Based on the Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution study by Ulf Johansson et al. | #ornithology

Therian mammals became more terrestrial towards the end of the Cretaceous - does this explain why placental mammals survived the exinction better than marsupials? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… MorphoSource

Enormously excited to reveal my new book, beautifully illustrated in FULL COLOUR by the brilliant Bob Nicholls Art Coming September 2025. Pre-order now! Published by Columbia University Press More details from the publisher: cup.columbia.edu/book/the-secre…

#Fossils of an endangered, endemic, giant #dipterocarp species open a historical portal into Borneo's vanishing #rainforests #paleobotany #palaeobotany doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.7…

New paper alert. Link to free download until 29th June: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2…

A review of the key methods which helped to progress the paleontology. The figure is rather handy, and can be used in introductory lectures. researchgate.net/profile/Pasqua…

Neil Shubin, a University of Chicago researcher known for co-discovering a ′missing link’ fossil fish, will lead the National Academy of Sciences if ratified by members go.nature.com/40lw1HX

Does X-ray micro-CT scanning impact radiocarbon dating of fossils? Short answer: Yes. Not directly the radiocarbon age, but collagen preservation for sure. See more here (free access): cambridge.org/core/journals/… CENIEH Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution

It's amazing to think about what it would have been like to be alive when other types of hominins shared the landscape. Three ancient human relatives once shared the same valley. Did they meet—and compete? | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

1/8) A new research article led by scientists at the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (Florian Bouchet, Computational Biomechanics -Life History Evolution et al.) 🧑‍🔬 sheds light on an ancient primate from the Miocene of Catalonia. The study focuses on fossil teeth from two localities in the Vallès-Penedès Basin 🦷🌍

#ESHE2025 Majid Aljaber Abo Fakher ‘A strictly modern human trait? Tracing hypoconulid in first molars and its evolutionary implications’ No LM1s hypoconulid: +% in WEurasia ALL earlier homs have it – except: #floresiensis ; earliest absence in W Eurasia: Ksar Akil

New paper alert. First Stegodon fossil from Malaysia.

The #Stegodon tooth discovery recently published in PE (doi.org/10.26879/1432) has been commemorated with a stamp from Pos Malaysia! The map inset highlights the find's location in southern peninsular #Malaysia. The reconstruction behind shows the animal behind the tooth!

New paper alert -- the first site in Pahang with orangutan fossils. Link: doi.org/10.1016/j.geob…