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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., 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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., 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., 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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, 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
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
Xu, Z., Bateson, E., Cleal, C.J., Hutton, R., Yu, J., Wang, S.J., Knoll, A.H., Mills, B.J. and Hilton, J. 2025. Normalization of fossil plant megafossil databases for diversity and palaeobiogeography analyses by filtering taxonomic duplication: Principles, methods, examples, and recommendations. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 678, 113236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.113236
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
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Cleal, C.J. and Šimůnek, Z. 2025. (3121) Proposal to conserve the name Odontopteris schlotheimii against Osmunda nummularia (Fossil Medullosales). Taxon https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.70044
Janis, C.M. 2025. Who was the real sabertooth predator: Thylacosmilus or Thylacoleo? The Anatomical Record. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25444
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, pp.1-21. https://doi.org/10.1017/S175569102300018X
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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.