Publications from the 'Evolutionary Morphology' Department

Alfsen, A., de Muizon, C., Lambert, O., Bianucci, G., Kaffler, A., McCurry, M., Houssaye, A., Varas-Malca, R., Salas‐Gismondi, R., Hampe, O., Amson, E. (2025). Broadening the semiaquatic scene: Quantification of long bone microanatomy across pinnipeds. The Anatomical Record. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70058

Blanco, F., Lazagabaster, I.A., Sanisidro, Ó., Bibi, F., Heckeberg, N., Ríos, M., Mennecart, B., Alberdi, M., Prado, J., Saarinen, J., Silvestro, D., Müller, J., Calatayud, J., Cantalapiedra, J.L. (2025). Two major ecological shifts shaped 60 million years of ungulate faunal evolution. Nature Communications, 16(1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-59974-x

Bothe, V., Fröbisch, N. (2025). The tiger salamander as a promising alternative model organism to the axolotl for fracture healing and regenerative biology research. The Anatomical Record. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70060

Chowdhury, M., Müller, J., Al Haidar, I., Rahman, M., Noman, M., Ghose, A., Abu Sayeed, A., Amin, R., Sanz, L., Faiz, A., Kuch, U., Calvete, J. (2025). Interspecific and intraspecific variability in venom composition of Naja naja and Naja kaouthia (Reptilia: Elapidae) populations from different habitats in Bangladesh. Journal of Proteomics, 322, 105544. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jprot.2025.105544

Cornille, A., Beguesse, K., Wolff, E., Zinner, C., Asbach, P., Clarac, F., Witzmann, F. (2025). Skeletal pathologies in extant crocodilians as a window into the paleopathology of fossil archosaurs. The Anatomical Record, ar.70079. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70079

Dunlop, J., Bartel, C. (2025). A new species of fossil Phrynus Lamarck, 1801, from Dominican Republic amber (Amblypygi: Phrynidae). Zootaxa, 5563(1), 64-72. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5563.1.7

Díez-Díaz, V., Mannion, P., Csiki‐Sava, Z., Upchurch, P. (2025). Revision of Romanian sauropod dinosaurs reveals high titanosaur diversity and body-size disparity on the latest Cretaceous Haţeg Island, with implications for titanosaurian biogeography. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 23(1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2024.2441516

Díez-Díaz, V., van Bijlert, P., Sellers, W., Wedel, M., Schwarz, D. (2025). Centres of rotation and osteological constraints on caudal ranges of motion in the sauropod dinosaur Giraffatitan brancai. Royal Society Open Science, 12(8). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250851

England, S. (2025). Animal senses: The electric attraction of fruit flies. Current Biology, 35(8), R281-R283. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.07.102

England, S., Palmer, R., O’Reilly, L., Chenchiah, I., Robert, D. (2025). Electroreception in treehoppers: How extreme morphologies can increase electrical sensitivity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(30). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2505253122

England, S.J., McLellan, C.F., Meah, R.J., Wainwright, J.B., Sumner-Rooney, L. (2025). [Review:] The sensory ecology of caterpillars. Journal of Comparative Physiology A. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00359-025-01778-x

Ferner, K. (2025). Development of the pulmonary vasculature in the gray short‐tailed opossum ( Monodelphis domestica )— 3D reconstruction by microcomputed tomography. The Anatomical Record, 308(4), 1144-1163. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25542

Kirchner, M., Ortega, J., García‐Roa, R., Müller, J., Martı́n, J. (2025). Intrapopulational variation in head shape correlates with soil structure heterogeneity in a head‐first burrowing amphisbaenian, Trogonophis wiegmanni. Journal of Zoology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jzo.70008

Kılıç, K., Garipoğlu, G., Çakar, B., Uyanıkgil, Y., Erbaş, O. (2025). Antioxidant-Effective Quercetin Through Modulation of Brain Interleukin-13 Mitigates Autistic-Like Behaviors in the Propionic Acid-Induced Autism Model in Rats. Journal of Neuroimmune Pharmacology, 20, article number 36. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11481-025-10190-w

Kılıç, K., Çakar, B., Uyanıkgil, Y., Koenhemsi̇, L., Güneş, B., Eroğlu, E., Erbaş, O. (2025). Therapeutic effect of bismuth subsalicylate in a propionic acid–induced autism model. Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology, 398, 15763–15774. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00210-025-04255-z

Orgebin, P., van der Geer, A., Lyras, G., Mennecart, B., Métais, G., Rozzi, R. (2025). Virtual endocast of the Late Miocene Hoplitomeryx matthei (Artiodactyla, Hoplitomerycidae) and brain evolution in insular ruminants. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 292(2054). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.1542

Ramm, T., Roycroft, E., Gray, J., Hipsley, C., Hocknull, S., Müller, J., Melville, J. (2025). Climate change predicts Quaternary extinctions and extant genetic diversity in a threatened Australian lizard. Current Biology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.09.067

Salih, K., Müller, J., Eisawi, A., Bibi, F. (2025). A new late Pleistocene fossil crocodile from Sudan reveals hidden diversity of Crocodylus in Africa. Scientific Reports, 15. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-08980-6

Schlüter, N., Slami, R., Benyoucef, M., Garah, A., Kennedy, W.J., Walaszczyk, I. (2025). Coniacian (Late Cretaceous) echinoids from the southern Tethyan shelf (NE Algeria) with remarks on their palaeobiology and palaeobiogeography. Cretaceous Research, 179, 106261. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2025.106261

Woodgate, S., Dunn, F., Thompson, J., Formery, L., Zamora, S., Rahman, I. (2025). A new Cambrian stem-group echinoderm reveals the evolution of the anteroposterior axis. Current Biology, 35(14), 3488-3495. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.05.065

Woodgate, S., Pérez‐Cembranos, A., Pérez-Mellado, V., Müller, J. (2025). Microgeographic diversity does not drive macroevolutionary divergence in bite force of the Ibiza wall lizard, Podarcis pityusensis. Evolution. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpaf140

Beeston, S., Schwarz, D., Upchurch, P., Barrett, P., Asbach, P., Mannion, P. (2025). New information on Late Triassic sauropodomorph dinosaurs provides support for the independent acquisition of postcranial skeletal pneumaticity in avemetatarsalian lineages. Journal of Anatomy. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.70045

Bellucci, L., Lucenti, S., Masini, F., Rook, L., Sorbelli, L., Cioppi, E. (2025). Darwin’s Leptobos. Historical Biology, 1-20. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2025.2513880

Bicknell, R.D.C., Dunlop, J., Young, A., Lauer, B., Lauer, R., McCoy, V.E. (2025). Unique, dimple-like exoskeletal structures suggest syn-vivo infestations in Late Carboniferous horseshoe crabs. Biology Letters, 21(12), 20250565. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0565

Ebel, R., Broeckhoven, C., Stanley, E., Ramm, T., Keogh, J. (2025). Dermal armour in lizards: osteoderms more common than presumed. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 204(3). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf070

Gonzalez, L., Schönauer, A., Harper, A., Arif, S., Leite, D., Steinhoff, P., Pechmann, M., Telizhenko, V., Pande, A., Schultz, Z., Kosiol, C., Aase-Remedios, M., Sumner‐Rooney, L., McGregor, A. (2025). Development and patterning of a highly versatile visual system in spiders. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 292(2042). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.2069

Götze, S., Reddin, C.J., Ketelsen, I., Busack, M., Lannig, G., Bock, C., Pörtner, H.O. (2025). Cardiac performance mirrors the passive thermal tolerance range in the oyster Ostrea edulis. Journal of Experimental Biology, 228(2), JEB249750. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.249750

Louppe, V., Le Verger, K., Clavel, J., Ferreira, G., Kyriakouli, C., Stanley, E., Watt, E., Bardua, C., Pérez-Ben, C., Fröbisch, N., Bothe, V., Boistel, R., Daghfous, G., Goswami, A., Fabre, A. (2025). Complete metamorphosis promotes morphological and functional diversity in Caudata. Functional Ecology, 39(7), 1732-1747. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.70044

Macaluso, L., Villa, A., Rozzi, R., Fabre, A., Mennecart, B. (2025). Time to grow up: the PETM climatic event favoured metamorphosing salamanders (Urodela, Salamandridae). Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 292(2052). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.1333

McCormack, J., Feichtinger, I., Fuller, B.T., Jaouen, K., Griffiths, M.L., Bourgon, N., Maisch, H., Becker, M.A., Pollerspöck, J., Hampe, O., Rössner, G.E., Assemat, A., Müller, W., Shimada, K. (2025). Miocene marine vertebrate trophic ecology reveals megatooth sharks as opportunistic supercarnivores. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 664, 119392. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2025.119392

Meah, R.J., Sumner-Rooney, L., Venables, S.V., Lloyd-How, S.T., Massy, R., Hawkes, W.L., Daly, I.M., Smithers, S.P., Wotton, K.R., Roberts, N.W. (2025). Light pollution creates multiple threats to the movement ecology of nocturnal arthropod taxa. Current Biology, 36(2), 541-548. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.11.055

Nicolì, L., Pereyra, M., Elias‐Costa, A., Barrionuevo, J., Faivovich, J. (2025). New evidence for an old acquaintance: Neoprocoela edentata from the Oligocene of central Patagonia is the oldest species of Nannophryne (Anura: Bufonidae). Cladistics. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.70007

Paganos, P., Ullrich-Lüter, J., Almazán, A., Voronov, D., Carl, J., Zakrzewski, A.C., Zemann, B., Rusciano, M.L., Sancerni, T., Schauer, M., Akar, O., Caccavale, F., Cocurullo, M., Benvenuto, G., Croce, J.C., Lüter, C., Arnone, M.I. (2025). Single-nucleus profiling highlights the all-brain echinoderm nervous system. Science Advances, 11(45), eadx7753. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adx7753

Payzin‐Dogru, D., Froitzheim, T., Blair, S., Jena, S., Singer, H., Paoli, J., Kim, R., Kriukov, E., Wilson, S., Hou, R., Savage, A., Cat, V., Cammarata, L., Wu, S., Bothe, V., Erdoğan, B., Hossain, S., Lopez, N., Losner, J., Matos, J., Min, S., Böhm, S., Striker, A., Dooling, K., Freedman, A., Groves, B., Tajer, B., Kalu, G., Wynn, E., Wong, A., Fröbisch, N., Baranov, P., Plikus, M., Buenrostro, J., Haas, B., Chiu, I., Sackton, T., Whited, J. (2025). Adrenergic signaling coordinates distant and local responses to amputation in axolotl. Cell. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2025.09.025

Pierre, O., Laura, D., Manuela, A., Mennecart, B. (2025). The differentiated impacts and constraints of allometry, phylogeny, and environment on the ruminants’ ankle bone. Communications Biology, 8(1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-07898-z

Plön, S., Andra, K., Auditore, L.M., Gégout, C., Hale, P., Hampe, O., Ramilo-Henry, M., Burkhardt‐Holm, P., Jaigirdar, A., Klein, L., Maewashe, M., Müssig, J., Ramsarup, N., Roussouw, N., Sabin, R., Shongwe, T., Tuddenham, P. (2025). Towards sustainability and beyond with Ocean Health Science. npj Biodiversity, 4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s44185-025-00091-9

Quesada, A., Fernández, M., Menéndez, I. (2025). Cranial morphology in flying squirrels: diet, shape, and size disparity across tropical and temperate biomes. Frontiers in Zoology, 22(1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12983-025-00556-4

Royer, A., Crétat, J., Laffont, R., Gamboa, S., Luna, B., Menéndez, I., Pohl, B., Montuire, S., Fernández, M. (2025). Late Pleistocene temperature patterns in the Western Palearctic: insights from rodent associations compared with general circulation models. Climate of the past, 21(10), 1821-1851. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-1821-2025

Sachs, S., Madzia, D., Marx, M., Roberts, A., Hampe, O., Kear, B. (2025). The osteology, taxonomy, and phylogenetic placement of Seeleyosaurus guilelmiimperatoris (Plesiosauroidea, Microcleididae) from the Lower Jurassic Posidonia Shale of Germany. The Anatomical Record. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25620

Santos, A.A., Dunlop, J.A., Hernández-Orúe, A., Selden, P.A., Diez, J.B., McLoughlin, S. (2025). Trigonotarbids (Arachnida) hidden in plant debris from a Late Pennsylvanian tropical forest at El Bierzo, Castilla y León, Spain. PalZ, 99(4), 567-580. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-025-00745-w

Schifani, E., Menchetti, M., Csősz, S., Vila, R. (2025). Inflated taxonomy in the West Mediterranean Temnothorax algiricus complex (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) revealed by quantitative morphology. Zootaxa, 5691(2), 257-276. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5691.2.4

Senevirathne, G., Fernandopulle, S., Richard, D., Baumgart, S., Christensen, A., Fabbri, M., Höppner, J., Jüppner, H., Li, P., Bothe, V., Fröbisch, N., Simcock, I., Arthurs, O., Calder, A., Freilich, N., Nowlan, N., Glass, I., Craft, A., Capellini, T. (2025). The evolution of hominin bipedalism in two steps. Nature, 645(8082), 952-963. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09399-9

Sherwood, D., Cobo, S.A., Dunlop, J.A., Tsavalas, A.T., Geci, D., Lucas, S.M., Brescovit, A.D. (2025). Reidentification of historical specimens assigned to Cupiennius oculifer (Karsch, 1879) (Araneae: Trechaleidae). Zootaxa, 5723(1), 138-142. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5723.1.8

Sigwart, J.D., Georg, L., Sumner-Rooney, L. (2025). Growing eyes on growing shells reveal how chitons scale vision. Biology Letters, 21(11), 20250481. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0481

Torres-Oliva, M., Buchberger, E., Buffry, A., Kittelmann, M., Guerrero, G., Sumner‐Rooney, L., Gaspar, P., Bullinger, G., Jimenez, J., Casares, F., Arif, S., Posnien, N., Nunes, M., McGregor, A., Almudí, I. (2025). Heterochrony in orthodenticle expression is associated with ommatidial size variation between Drosophila species. BMC Biology, 23. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-025-02136-8

Treder, M., Gluck, M., England, S., Traynor, K. (2025). Radiofrequency electromagnetic fields reduce bumble bee visitation to flowers. Environmental Pollution, 126836-126836. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2025.126836

VanBuren, C., Bentley, L., Norman, D., Fröbisch, N. (2025). Assessing the Presence, Pattern, and Environmental Correlates of Seasonal Skin Thickening in Anurans. Integrative Zoology, 1-15. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1749-4877.13035

Wainwright, J., Loupasaki, T., Ramírez, F., Penry‐Williams, I., England, S., Barker, A., Meier, J., How, M., Roberts, N., Troscianko, J., Montgomery, S. (2025). Mutualisms within light microhabitats are associated with sensory convergence in a mimetic butterfly community. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(29). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2422397122

Wu, Z., Dunlop, J., Klimov, P., Mai, H., Peng, A., Liu, Y. (2025). A new whip scorpion (Arachnida: Thelyphonida) with a phoretic mite (Acariformes: Trochometridiidae) from Mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber. BMC Ecology and Evolution, 25. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-025-02392-w

Bothe, V., Müller, H., Shubin, N., Fröbisch, N. (2024). Effects of life history strategies and habitats on limb regeneration in plethodontid salamanders. Developmental Dynamics, 254(5), 396-419. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/dvdy.742

Chowdhury, M.A.W., Müller, J., Ghose, A., Amin, R., Sayeed, A.A., Kuch, U., Faiz, M.A. (2024). Combining species distribution models and big datasets may provide finer assessments of snakebite impacts. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 18(5), e0012161. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0012161

Dunlop, J.A., Garwood, R.J. (2024). A review of fossil scorpion higher systematics. PeerJ, 12, e18557. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18557

Díez Díaz, V. (2024). Ankylosaurus magniventris. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 8(1048). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02395-8

England, S.J., Robert, D. (2024). Prey can detect predators via electroreception in air. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(23), e2322674121. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2322674121

Hampe, O., Von Der Hocht, F. (2024). The first cetacean from the early Oligocene of the SW German Mainz Basin: a probable cheek tooth of a mysticete (Mammalia: Cetacea). PalZ, 98(1), 161-174. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-023-00676-4

Hempel, E., Faith, J.T., Preick, M., de Jager, D., Barish, S., Hartmann, S., Grau, J.H., Moodley, Y., Gedman, G., Pirovich, K.M., Bibi, F., Kalthoff, D.C., Bocklandt, S., Lamm, B., Dalén, L., Westbury, M.V., Hofreiter, M. (2024). Colonial-driven extinction of the blue antelope despite genomic adaptation to low population size. Current Biology, 34(9), 2020-2029.e6. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.03.051

Marjanović, D., Maddin, H.C., Olori, J.C., Laurin, M. (2024). The new problem of Chinlestegophis and the origin of caecilians (Amphibia, Gymnophionomorpha) is highly sensitive to old problems of sampling and character construction. Fossil Record, 27(1), 55-94. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.27.e109555

Prino, A., Witzmann, F., Schwermann, A., Garbay, L., Sander, P., Konietzko-Meier, D. (2024). How not to disappear completely: New Stereospondyli fossils from the Rhaetian (Upper Triassic) of Bonenburg (North Rhine-Westphalia) and their implications for the Late Triassic extinction of Stereospondyli. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 69. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4202/app.01147.2024

Ramm, T., Gray, J.A., Hipsley, C.A., Hocknull, S., Melville, J., Müller, J. (2024). Are Modern Cryptic Species Detectable in the Fossil Record? A Case Study on Agamid Lizards. Systematic Biology, 74(3), 373-394. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syae067

Schlüter, N. (2024). A paedomorphic dwarf species, Gauthieria pumilio sp. nov. (Echinoidea: Phymosomatidae), from the Campanian (Late Cretaceous) of Hannover, Germany. PalZ, 98, 593-601. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-024-00702-z

Schlüter, N. (2024). One steps out of line—A “modern” Micraster species (Echinoidea, Spatangoida) with some old-fashioned look, Micraster ernsti sp. nov. from the Campanian (Cretaceous). Zootaxa, 5403(1), 80-90. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5403.1.5

Schäfer, M., Sydow, D., Schauer, M., Doumbia, J., Schmitt, T., Rödel, M.O. (2024). Species- and sex-specific chemical composition from an internal gland-like tissue of an African frog family. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 291(2014), 20231693. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.1693

Sumner-Rooney, L. (2024). Critical junctions in evolution. Science, 383(6686), 951-952. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ado1700

Witzmann, F., Schoch, R.R. (2024). Osteology and phylogenetic position of Plagiosaurus depressus (Temnospondyli: Plagiosauridae) from the Late Triassic of Germany and the repeated loss of dermal bones in plagiosaurids. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 202(3), zlae014. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae014

Bartel, C., Dunlop, J.A., Wedmann, S. (2024). Iridescent harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones: Sclerosomatidae) from the Eocene of Messel, Germany. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, 104(4), 963-975. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-024-00607-4

Benvenuto, G., Leone, S., Astoricchio, E., Bormke, S., Jasek, S., D’Aniello, E., Kittelmann, M., McDonald, K., Hartenstein, V., Baena, V., Escrivà, H., Bertrand, S., Schierwater, B., Burkhardt, P., Ruiz-Trillo, I., Jékely, G., Ullrich-Lüter, J., Lüter, C., D’Aniello, S., Arnone, M.I., Ferraro, F. (2024). Evolution of the ribbon-like organization of the Golgi apparatus in animal cells. Cell Reports, 43(3), 113791. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2024.113791

Bibi, F. (2024). A Rhino from Lake Baikal. Peer Community in Paleontology, 100182. DOI: https://doi.org/10.24072/pci.paleo.100182

Buffry, A.D., Currea, J.P., Franke-Gerth, F.A., Palavalli-Nettimi, R., Bodey, A.J., Rau, C., Samadi, N., Gstöhl, S.J., Schlepütz, C.M., McGregor, A.P., Sumner-Rooney, L., Theobald, J., Kittelmann, M. (2024). Evolution of compound eye morphology underlies differences in vision between closely related Drosophila species. BMC Biology, 22(1), 67. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-024-01864-7

Canning-Clode, J., Gizzi, F., Braga-Henriques, A., Ramalhosa, P., Abreu, P., Álvarez, S., Biscoito, M., Buhl-Mortensen, P., Delgado, J., Esson, D., Freitas, M., Freitas, M., Henriques, F., Jakobsen, J., Jakobsen, K., Kerckhof, F., Lüter, C., Moura, C.J., Radeta, M., Rocha, R.M., Santos, R., Sepúlveda, P., Silva, R., Silva, T., Souto, J., Triay-Portella, R., Wirtz, P., Xavier, J.R., Bastida-Zavala, R., Bellou, N., Gueroun, S.K.M., Monteiro, J.G. (2024). A pioneering longterm experiment on mesophotic macrofouling communities in the North Atlantic. Communications Biology, 7, 1618. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-07249-4

Capasso, L., Witzmann, F. (2024). Non-dental odontodes in the masticatory apparatus of †pycnodonts (Osteichthyes, Actinopterygii). Historical Biology, 37(9), 2065-2070. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2024.2405882

Capasso, L., Ebert, M., Witzmann, F. (2024). Dental paleopathologies in †Pycnodontiformes (Osteichthyes: Actinopterygii). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen, 311(3), 299-341. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1127/njgpa/2024/1193

Capasso, L., Ebert, M., Witzmann, F. (2024). Skeletal and integumental paleopathologies in †Pycnodontomorpha (Osteichthyes: Actinopterygii). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen, 313(1), 39-66. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1127/njgpa/2024/1218

Chiarenza, A.A., Cantalapiedra, J.L., Jones, L.A., Gamboa, S., Galván, S., Farnsworth, A.J., Valdes, P.J., Sotelo, G., Varela, S. (2024). Early Jurassic origin of avian endothermy and thermophysiological diversity in dinosaurs. Current Biology, 34(11), 2517-2527.e4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.04.051

Chitimia-Dobler, L., Handschuh, S., Dunlop, J.A., Pienaar, R., Mans, B.J. (2024). Nuttalliellidae in Burmese amber: implications for tick evolution. Parasitology, 151(9), 891-907. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182024000477

Chong, K.L., Grahn, A., Perl, C.D., Sumner-Rooney, L. (2024). Allometry and ecology shape eye size evolution in spiders. Current Biology, 34(14), 3178-3188.e5. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.06.020

Clark, G.E., Palci, A., Laver, R.J., Hernandez-Morales, C., Perez-Martinez, C.A., Lewis, P.J., Thies, M.L., Bell, C.J., Hipsley, C.A., Müller, J., Montero, R., Daza, J.D. (2024). The specialized inner ear labyrinth of worm-lizards (Amphisbaenia: Squamata). PLoS ONE, 19(11), e0312086. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0312086

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