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Alcott, L.J., Bowyer, F.T. and Agić, H., 2025. Future directions for understanding the coevolution of life and oxygen. Communications Earth & Environment 6, 725. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02689-0

Bábek, O., Ackerman, L., Šimíček, D., Wright, V.P., Marriott, S., Pluháček, T., Shahrokhi, S. and Weinerová, H. 2025. Pedogenic continental red beds: How, why and when red? Redox geochemistry and quantitative colour analysis of the Old Red Sandstone, South Wales, UK. Sedimentology 72, 442-474. https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.13244

Barrett, R.E., de Vries, J. and Schmidt, D.N. 2025. What controls planktic foraminiferal calcification Biogeosciences 22, 791-807. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-791-2025

Barrett, R.E., Power, A., Love, J. and Schmidt, D. 2025. A rapid method for measuring ancient coccolith size. Marine Micropaleontology 201, 102504. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2025.102504

Benton, M.J. 2025. The dinosaur boom in the Cretaceous. Special Publications, Geological Society of London 544, 453-475 . https://doi.org/10.1144/SP544-2023-7

Bland, J., Dutel, H., Long, J.A., Fabbri, M., Bevitt, J., Trinajstic, K., Panagiotopoulou, O. and Clement, A.M. 2025. Comparison of diverse mandibular mechanics during biting in Devonian lungfishes. iScience 28, 7112970. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.112970

Bolet, A. 2025. Lizards and amphisbaenians (Reptilia, Squamata) from the middle Eocene of Mazaterón (Soria, Spain). The Anatomical Record 308, 1753-1768. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25271

Burton, M.G., Benito, J., Mellor, K., Smith, E., Martin-Silverstone, E., O’Connor, P. and Field, D.J. 2025. The influence of soft tissue volume on estimates of skeletal pneumaticity: implications for fossil archosaurs. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 380, 20230428. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0428

Cascales‐Miñana, B., Molina‐Solís, A. and Cleal, C.J. 2025. The taxonomy of fossil lyginopteridalean fronds Eusphenopteris neuropteroides and their importance for understanding late Carboniferous floristic changes. Taxon 74, 697-706. https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.13317

Clark, J.W. and Donoghue, P.C. 2025. Uncertainty in the timing of diversification of flowering plants rests with equivocal interpretation of their fossil record. Royal Society Open Science 12, 242158. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.242158

Clarke, A.W., Høye, E., Hembrom, A.A., Paynter, V.M., Vinther, J., Wyrożemski, Ł., Biryukova, I., Formaggioni, A., Ovchinnikov, V., Herlyn, H., Pierce, A., Wu, C., Aslanzadeh, M., Cheneby, J., Martinez, P., Friedländer, M.R., Hovig, E., Hackenberg, M., Umu, S.U., Johansen, M., Peterson, K.J., and Fromm, B. 2025. MirGeneDB 3.0: improved taxonomic sampling, uniform nomenclature of novel conserved microRNA families and updated covariance models. Nucleic Acids Research 53(D1), D116-D128. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkae1094

Cleal, C.J. and Šimůnek, Z. 2025. (3121) Proposal to conserve the name Odontopteris schlotheimii against Osmunda nummularia (Fossil Medullosales). Taxon 74, 1281-1282. https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.70044

Cross, E., Fraass, A.J. and Arbour, V.M. 2025. Taxonomic utility of isolated ankylosaurian dinosaur teeth using traditional and geometric morphometrics with implications for ankylosaur paleoecology. Journal of Paleontology 99, 441-457. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2025.10117

Davín, A.A., Woodcroft, B.J., Soo, R.M., Morel, B., Murali, R., Schrempf, D., Clark, J.W., Álvarez-Carretero, S., Boussau, B., Moody, E.R., Szánthó, L.L., Richy, E., Pisani, D., Hemp, J., Fischer, W.W., Donoghue, P.C.J., Spang, A., Hugenholtz, P., Williams, T.A., and Szöllösi, G.J. 2025. A geological timescale for bacterial evolution and oxygen adaptation. Science 388, eadp1853. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adp1853

Demetriou, L., Benton, M.J., and Duffin, C.J. 2025. Richard Owen’s Dinosauria in context: the rhetoric, politics and legacy of the dinosaurs. Earth Sciences History 44, 151-180. https://doi.org/0.17704/1944-6187-44.1.151

Donoghue, P.C., Lenton, T.M., Okasha, S., Shields, G.A. and Spang, A., 2025. Chance and purpose in the evolution of biospheres. Philosophical Transactions B 380, 20240085. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0085

Dunn, F.S., Donoghue, P.C. and Liu, A.G. 2025. Morphogenesis of Fractofusus andersoni and the nature of early animal development. Nature Communications 16, 3439. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-58605-9

Edgar, K.M., Grigoratou, M., Monteiro, F.M., Barrett, R., Ying, R. and Schmidt, D.N. 2025. Reviews and syntheses: A trait-based approach to constrain controls on planktic foraminiferal ecology–key trade-offs and current knowledge gaps. Biogeosciences 22, 3463-3483. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-3463-2025

Fadel, I., Milla Carmona, P.S., Liu, Y., Rayfield, E.J. and Donoghue, P.C. 2025. Morphological constraints in hymenopteran forewings limit flight efficiency optimization. Royal Society Open Science 12, 250224. http://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250224

Fannin, L.D., Seyoum, C.M., Venkataraman, V.V., Yeakel, J.D., Janis, C.M., Cerling, T.E. and Dominy, N.J. 2025. Behavior drives morphological change during human evolution. Science 389, 488-493. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ado2359

Filippi, G., Schmidt, D.N., Sigismondi, S. and Luciani, V. 2025. Contrasting response in test size and abundance of planktic foraminifera Morozovella and Acarinina to the EECO in the subtropical Pacific Ocean. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 666, 112840. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.112840

Flannery-Sutherland, J.T., Elsler, A., Farnsworth, A., Lunt, D.J. and Benton, M.J. 2025. Landscape-explicit phylogeography illuminates the ecographic radiation of early archosauromorph reptiles. Nature Ecology & Evolution 9, 1138–1152. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02739-y

Fonseca, P.H.M., Martinelli, A.G., Gill, P.G., Rayfield, E.J., Schultz, C.L., Kerber, L., Ribeiro, A.M. and Soares, M.B. 2025. Anatomy of the maxillary canal of Riograndia guaibensis (Cynodontia, Probainognathia)—A prozostrodont from the Late Triassic of southern Brazil. The Anatomical Record 308, 827-843. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25540

Garrouste, R., Fortuny, J., Mujal, E., Bolet, A., Steyer, J.S. and Nel, A. 2025. New insects from the Permian of Catalonia (Spain) predate the early diversification of Triassic clades adapted to arid environments (Grylloblattodea, Probnidae, Dictyoptera). Fossil Record 28, 179-186. https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.28.e153912

George, H., Kammerer, C.F., Foffa, D., Clark, N.D. and Brusatte, S.L. 2025. Micro-CT data reveal new information on the craniomandibular and neuroanatomy of the dicynodont Gordonia (Therapsida: Anomodontia) from the late Permian of Scotland. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 203, zlae065. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae065

Giacomelli, M., Vecchi, M., Guidetti, R., Rebecchi, L., Donoghue, P.C., Lozano-Fernandez, J. and Pisani, D. 2025. CAT-posterior mean site frequencies improves phylogenetic modeling under maximum likelihood and resolves Tardigrada as the sister of Arthropoda plus Onychophora. Genome Biology and Evolution 17, evae273. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evae273

Gomes, J.P.B., Bunevich, R.B., Sartorato, A.C.L., Tedeschi, L.R., Tonietto, S.N., Tucker, M.E. and Whitaker, F. 2025. Early diagenetic evolution based on petrography and stable isotope analysis in the Barra Velha Formation of the Brazilian Pre‐salt. The Depositional Record 11, 70-94. https://doi.org/10.1002/dep2.288

Hoffmann, S., Malik, R.S., Vidyasagar, A. and Gill, P. 2025. The inner ear and stapes of the basal mammaliaform Morganucodon revisited: new information on labyrinth morphology and promontorial vascularization. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 203, zlae062. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae062

Hose, T.A. 2025. Travel, sea air and (geo) tourism in coastal southern England. Tourism and Hospitality 6(3), 155. https://doi.org/10.3390/tourhosp6030155

Howson, M.P., Tucker, M.E. and Whitaker, F.F. 2025. A Triassic semi-arid upland community of herbaceous ferns and rhizophagous arthropods evidenced by trace fossils in rhizogenic calcrete pedorelicts from SW England. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 678, 113221. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.113221

Janis, C.M. 2025. Who was the real sabertooth predator: Thylacosmilus or Thylacoleo? The Anatomical Record 308, 2896-2912. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25444

Janis, C.M., Martín‐Serra, A., Theodor, J.M. and Scott, C.S. 2025. Down to earth: therian mammals became more terrestrial towards the end of the Cretaceous. Palaeontology 68, e70004. https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.70004

Jarzembowski, E.A., Coram, R.A. and Song, Z. 2025. Cretaceous amber insects. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 544, 433-452. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP544-2023-72

Koorapati, R.K., Moon, B.C. and Cotton, L.J. 2025. Morphological trends in reticulate Nummulites across the Eocene–Oligocene transition. Palaeontology 68, e70003. https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.70003

Kopp, R.E., Gilmore, E.A., Shwom, R.L., Adams, H., Adler, C., Oppenheimer, M., Patwardhan, A., Russill, C., Schmidt, D.N. and York, R., 2025. ‘Tipping points’ confuse and can distract from urgent climate action. Nature Climate Change 15, 29-36. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-02196-8

Larina, E., Woodhouse, A., Swain, A., Lowery, C.M., Martindale, R.C. and Myers, C.E. 2025. Regional restructuring in planktic foraminifera communities through Pliocene-early Pleistocene climate variability. Nature Communications 16, 5056. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-60362-8

Li, H., Zhuo, D., Wang, B., Nakamine, H., Yamamoto, S., Zhang, W., Jepson, J.E., Ohl, M., Aspöck, U., Aspöck, H. and Tin Nyunt, T., Engel, M.S., Benton, M.J., Donoghue, P.C.J., and Liu, X.Y. 2025. A double-edged sword: evolutionary novelty along deep-time diversity oscillation in an iconic group of predatory insects (Neuroptera: Mantispoidea). Systematic Biology 74, 395-420. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syae068

Li, J., Zhang, Y., Zhao, Y., Han, C., Hu, K., Chen, W., Fei, Y., Liu, Y., Li, H., Tucker, M.E. and Han, Z., 2025. Differential effects of Ca2+ and Mn2+ on cyanobacterial mineralization and organic matter preservation. Chemical Geology 695, 123049. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2025.123049

Li, Y.D., Clarke, D.J., Newton, A.F., Huang, D.Y. and Cai, C.Y. 2025. Zavoticus yini gen. et sp. nov., a new euaesthetine rove beetle from mid‐Cretaceous Kachin Amber (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Ecology and Evolution 15, e71960. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71960

Li, Y.D., Ferreira, V.S., Kundrata, R., Huang, D.Y. and Cai, C.Y. 2025. Domipteron, a new genus of Calopterini from Miocene Dominican amber (Coleoptera: Elateroidea: Lycidae). Journal of Paleontology 99, 135-143. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2024.72

Li, Y.D., Huang, D.Y. and Cai, C.Y. 2025. Fantosmium, a new genus of Onthophilinae from mid‐Cretaceous Kachin Amber (Coleoptera: Histeridae). Ecology and Evolution 15, e71849. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71849

Li, Y.D., Huang, D. and Cai, C. 2025. Crassiungula gen. nov., an enigmatic genus of scarabaeoids from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea). Annales Zoologici 75, 43-51. https://doi.org/10.3161/00034541ANZ2025.75.1.004

Li, Y.D., Huang, D.Y. and Cai, C.Y. 2025. Derinilipia, a new genus of Ripidiini from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Ripiphoridae). Bulletin of Geosciences 100, 87-94. https://doi.org/10.3140/bull.geosci.1911

Li, Y.D., Leschen, R.A., Kolibáč, J., Engel, M.S., Zhang, Z.Q., Yu, Y., Huang, D. and Cai, C. 2025. Specialized bark-gnawing beetles reveal phragmotic defence and subcortical ecology in the Cretaceous. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 292, 20251004. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.1004

Li, Y.D., Philips, T.K., Huang, D.Y. and Cai, C.Y. 2025. Toxesbium gen. nov., the first definitive member of Ernobiinae from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Ptinidae). PalZ 99, 25–33. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-025-00715-2

Li, Y.D., Ruta, R., Huang, D.Y. and Cai, C.Y., 2025. Revised phylogenomic analysis and Cretaceous fossil evidence reveal new insights into evolution of Scirtinae (Coleoptera: Scirtidae). Journal of Systematics and Evolution 63, 1166–1178. https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.13182

Lindgren, J., Lomax, D.R., Szász, R.Z., Marx, M., Revstedt, J., Göltz, G., Sachs, S., De La Garza, R.G., Heingård, M., Jarenmark, M. and Ydström, K. 2025. Adaptations for stealth in the wing-like flippers of a large ichthyosaur. Nature 644, 976–983. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09271-w

Liu, Q., Cheng, L., Stubbs, T.L., Fang, Z., Tian, L., Yan, C. and Benton, M.J. 2025. Ontogenetic dietary partitioning in a Triassic sauropterygian: implications from a new juvenile specimen of Brevicaudosaurus jiyangshanensis (Reptilia: Diapsida). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 205, zlaf126. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf126

Liu, X.Y., Lu, X.M., Wang, J.L., Xu, C.P. and Zhuo, D. 2025. A new moth lacewing genus (Insecta: Neuroptera: Ithonidae) with proliferated and specialized wing venation from the mid-Cretaceous of northern Myanmar. Palaeoentomology 8, 36-46. https://doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.8.1.6

Mehmood, A., Singh, S.A., Elsler, A. and Benton, M.J. 2025. The ecology and geography of temnospondyl recovery after the Permian–Triassic mass extinction. Royal Society Open Science 12, 241200. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.241200

Meso, J.G., Pol, D., Chiappe, L., Qin, Z., Díaz‐Martínez, I., Gianechini, F., Apesteguía, S., Makovicky, P.J. and Pittman, M. 2025. Body size and evolutionary rate analyses reveal complex evolutionary history of Alvarezsauria. Cladistics 41, 135-155. https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12600

Milla Carmona, P.S., Lehmann, O.E., Deakin, W.J., Soto, E.M. and Soto, I.M. 2025. Building and visualising ordinations of shape data in R with morphospace. Ecology and Evolution 15, e71503. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71503

Mills, K., Sosdian, S., Muir, D.D., John, E.H., Santodomingo, N., Johnson, K., Buse, B. and Waheed, Z., 2025. Crystallographic and geochemical responses of giant clams on turbid reefs. Scientific Reports 15, 7365. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-90614-y

Moody, E.R., Williams, T.A., Álvarez-Carretero, S., Szöllősi, G.J., Pisani, D., Lenton, T.M. and Donoghue, P.C. 2025. The emergence of metabolisms through Earth history and implications for biospheric evolution. Philosophical Transactions B 380, 20240097. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0097

Nielsen, M.L., Lee, M., Wilby, P.R., Park, T.Y.S., Nielsen, A.T. and Vinther, J. 2025. Negative ontogenetic allometry of cardinal spines in the early Cambrian arthropod Isoxys volucris indicates their defensive function. Palaeontology 68, e70017. https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.70017

Olive, S., Kotoulas, I., Goujet, D., Donoghue, P.C., Marone, F. and Rücklin, M. 2025. A new ‘acanthothoracid’ placoderm from the Arctic Canada (Early Devonian) and its bearing on the evolution of jaws and teeth. Royal Society Open Science 12, 250837. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250837

Oudni, A., Aouissi, R., Welton, R.K., Mazouz, E.H., Rebouh, N. and Khiari, A. 2025. First insight on macroinvertebrates of Chebket Es Sellaoua (NE Algeria): Some significant ammonites from the lower Mantelliceras mantelli Zone (lower Cenomanian). Annales de Paléontologie 111, 102870. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annpal.2025.102870

Paul, C.R.C. 2025. Generic revision of holocystitid blastozoans. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 70, 125-141. https://doi.org/10.4202/app.01212.2024

Porro, L.B., Martin-Silverstone, E. and Rayfield, E.J. 2025. Descriptive anatomy and three-dimensional reconstruction of the skull of the tetrapod Eoherpeton watsoni Panchen, 1975 from the Carboniferous of Scotland. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 115, 164–184. https://doi.org/10.1017/S175569102300018X

Qiao, D., Shi, Z., Wang, J., Wu, K., Peng, S. and Benton, M.J. 2025. Earliest Triassic microbial mounds indicate an ‘oasis’ for recovery of life following the end-Permian extinction. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 677, 113216. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.113216

Radley, J.D. and Coram, R.A. 2025. First record of Caedichnus spiralis Stafford et al., 2015, from the outer Severn Estuary, south-west Britain. Ichnos 32, 277-281. https://doi.org/10.1080/10420940.2025.2525770

Radley, J., Coram, R.A., Hall, J.R. and Feneley, M. 2025. Re-excavation and interpretation of key sections in the Purbeck Group (Tithonian-Berriasian): Teffont Evias, Vale of Wardour, Wiltshire, England. Geoconservation Research 8, 082509. https://doi.org/10.57647/j.gcr.2025.0801.09

Randle, E., Keating, J.N. and Sansom, R.S. 2025. A phylogeny for Heterostraci (stem‐gnathostomes). Papers in Palaeontology 11, e70030. https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.70030

Riccetto, M., Mujal, E., Bolet, A., de Jaime-Soguero, C., de Esteban-Trivigno, S. and Fortuny, J. 2025. Tooth morphotypes shed light on the paleobiodiversity of middle Triassic terrestrial vertebrate ecosystems from ne Iberian Peninsula (southwestern Europe). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 131, 39-62. https://doi.org/10.54103/2039-4942/22340

Rowe, A.J. and Rayfield, E.J. 2025. Carnivorous dinosaur lineages adopt different skull performances at gigantic size. Current Biology 35, 3664-3673. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.06.051

Salmi-Laouar, S., Mendir, S., Aouissi, R., Kruft-Welton, R., Ahmed, M.S. and Abdelhady, A.A. 2024. Spatiotemporal variability of the Cenomanian macrobenthic fauna in Northeast Algeria: Species versus community level variations. Journal of African Earth Sciences 223, 105526. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2024.105526

Samperiz, A., Sosdian, S., Hendy, E., Johnson, K., John, E.H., Jupiter, S.D. and Albert, S. 2025. Coastal seawater turbidity and thermal stress control growth of reef-building Porites spp. corals in Fiji. Scientific Reports 15, 17172. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-02283-6

Sanchez-Sanchez, V., Sanisidro, O. and Ferrón, H.G. 2025. Functional aspects of the headshield processes in ostracoderms. Paleobiology 51, 310-322. https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.5

Saxena, A., Cleal, C.J. and Singh, K.J. 2025. The Permian–Triassic boundary in peninsular India and the extinction of the Glossopteridales. Gondwana Research 137, 318–330. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2024.10.005

Smith, J.A., Dowding, E.M., Abdelhady, A.A., Abondio, P., Araújo, R., Aze, T., Balisi, M.A., Benton, M.J., and 120 authors. 2025. Identifying the big questions in paleontology: a community-driven project. Paleobiology 51, 408-431. https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.10042

Staggl, M., De Gracia, C., López-Romero, F.A., Stumpf, S., Villalobos-Segura, E., Benton, M.J., and Kriwet, J. 2025. The drivers of Mesozoic neoselachian success and resilience. Biology 14(2), 142. https://doi.org/10.3390/biology14020142

Stefanini, M.I., Milla Carmona, P.S., Gómez-Bahamón, V., Mongiardino Koch, N., Soto, I.M., Gómez, R.O., Zyskowski, K. and Tambussi, C.P. 2025. Craniofacial modularity and the evolution of cranial kinesis in the adaptive radiation of Furnariidae (Aves: Passeriformes). Evolution 79, 625-640. https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpaf013

Sun, X., Tian, L., Qiu, X., Guan, K., Tihelka, E., Song, H., Tong, J. and Yang, H. 2025. Gastropod fauna of the Zuodeng Permian-Triassic boundary section in the Nanpanjiang Basin and its geometric-based morphological disparity analysis. Journal of Earth Science 36, 89-101. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12583-022-1645-x

Taylor, M.P., Henrici, A.C., Church, L.J., Nieuwland, I. and Lamanna, M.C. 2025. The history and composition of the Carnegie Diplodocus. Annals of Carnegie Museum 91, 55-91. https://doi.org/10.2992/007.091.0104

Vinther, J., Parry, L.A., Lee, M., Nielsen, M.L., Oh, Y., Park, C., Kihm, J.H., DeVivo, G., Harper, D.A., Nielsen, A.T. and Park, T.Y.S. 2025. A fossilized ventral ganglion reveals a chaetognath affinity for Cambrian nectocaridids. Science Advances 11, eadu6990. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adu6990

Wang, Y., Li, Y.D., Wang, S., Tihelka, E., Engel, M.S. and Cai, C. 2024. Modeling compositional heterogeneity resolves deep phylogeny of flowering plants. Plant Diversity 47, 13-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pld.2024.07.007

Weeks, B.C., Harvey, C., Tobias, J.A., Sheard, C., Zhou, Z. and Fouhey, D.F. 2025. Longer wing bones in warmer climates suggest a role of thermoregulation in bird wing evolution. Global Ecology and Biogeography 34, e70033. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.70033

Weeks, O.J., Cooper, R.B., Whiteside, D.I., Duffin, C.J., Copp, C., Hildebrandt, C., Hutchinson, D. and Benton, M.J. 2025. Microvertebrates from a Rhaetian neptunian dyke at Holwell, Somerset: Dating the fissures. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 136, 101112. https//doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2025.101112

Woodhouse, A. 2025. Palaeobiology: Emergence of the Southern Ocean. Current Biology 35, R104-R107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.12.035 

Wright, V.P., Hodges, P., Huggett, J.M. and Marriott, S.B. 2025. Palaeosols from the Upper Triassic of South Wales. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 136, 101090. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2024.12.005

Xiao, Y., Wang, K., He, W., Suzuki, N., Yang, T., Stubbs, T.L., Benton, M.J. and Song, H. 2025. No consistent size responses in radiolarians to the climatic changes and mass extinctions during the Paleozoic-Mesozoic transition. Current Biology 35, 3710-3722. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.06.057

Yan, H., Liu, Y., Zhang, H., Jin, S., Han, Z., Woo, J., Tucker, M.E., Meng, L., Chi, X., Han, C., Zhao, Y., Zhao, Y. and Zhao, H. 2025. Interaction of Ca²⁺ and Fe³⁺ in co-precipitation induced by Virgibacillus dokdonensis and its application. Journal of Environmental Sciences 147, 131-152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jes.2023.10.014

Yang, Y., King, J.L. and Xu, X. 2025. A new neornithischian dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation of northern China. PeerJ 13, e19664. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19664

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Evans, O., Howells, C., Wintle, N. and Benton, M.J. 2025. Re-assessment of a large archosaur dentary from the Late Triassic of South Wales, United Kingdom. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association XXX, 101142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2025.101142

Marke, D., Whiteside, D.I., Sethapanichsakul, T., Coram, R.A., Fernandez, V., Liptak, A., Newham, E. and Benton, M.J. 2025. The oldest known lepidosaur and origins of lepidosaur feeding adaptations. Nature, pp.1-10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09496-9

Molina-Solís, A., Cascales-Miñana, B., Monnet, C. and Cleal, C.J. 2025. About the diversification and heyday of Palaeophytic flora: new data and perspectives. Historical Biology, pp. 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2025.2571750

Paul, C.R.C., Guensburg, T. and Darrough, G. 2025. New morphological details revealed in well-preserved paracrinoids from reef facies in the Kimmswick Limestone (Upper Ordovician) of Missouri. Journal of Paleontology, pp.1-10. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2025.10147

Quinn, J.G., Whiteside, D.I., Toriño, P., Matheau-Raven, E.R. and Benton, M.J. 2025. Coelacanthiform fishes of the British Rhaetian. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology XX, e2520921.

Szánthó, L.L., Merényi, Z., Donoghue, P.C., Gabaldón, T., Nagy, L.G., Szöllősi, G.J. and Ocaña-Pallarès, E. 2025. A timetree of Fungi dated with fossils and horizontal gene transfers. Nature Ecology & Evolution pp.1-13. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02851-z

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Public understanding of science [XX]

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Benton, M.J. 2025. Why Dippy the dinosaur remains beloved, 120 years after arriving at the Natural History Museum. The Conversation.

Benton, M.J. 2025. The new species of flesh-eating dinosaur that once roamed south Wales: an imaging technology revolution. The Conversation.