Iridescence in pterosaur pycnofibers and the evolution of integumentary coloration https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.06.723168v1

Early Vertebrates Were Not Slow: Rapid Life Histories in Devonian Agnathans https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.26.720944v1

Nineteenth-century emergence of a seafloor ecosystem beyond late Quaternary limits https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.26.720923v1

A practical pipeline for volume rendering of trillion-voxel tomographic data https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.11.717885v1

Humans could become the greatest driver of biosphere net gain in Earth history, but we are currently the second fastest driver of biosphere loss https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.10.715592v1

Mosaic terrestrial diversity dynamics through the Permo-Triassic interval https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.09.717602v1

Robust evidence for modest diversity loss across the K/Pg in neoselachians: Response to Guinot et al. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.08.716966v1

Clade dynamics support an early origin of crown eukaryotes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.25.714154v1

Rapid and robust sex determination from ancient enamel proteomes using protSexInferer https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.23.713598v1

Phloem evolved gradually and asynchronously to xylem in early vascular plants https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.23.713640v1

Developmental variation in pterygoid segmentation clarifies patterns of avian bony palate evolution https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.24.713852v1

Morphological comparison between cell-like entities from mammalian tissues and Precambrian microfossils https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.22.713352v1

Contrasting Species-Level and Genus Level Disparity Patterns within the ammonoid family Acanthoceratidae https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.20.713222v1

New insights into the postcranial morphology of Lithornis vulturinus from the Eocene London Clay https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.17.711321v1

Linear morphometrics fail to support strong sexual dimorphism in Uintatherium anceps https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.05.709752v1

Contingency Inverts Mammalian Herbivore Evolution in Australia https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.04.709684v1

Anthropocentrism as a source of sampling bias in the fossil record. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.04.709576v1

Fossil-based analyses of clades' diversification patterns require taxonomic expertise and appropriate methodology https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.27.708174v1

No global collapse of food webs across the Permian-Triassic Mass Extinction https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.24.707709v1

Neotaphonomic characteristics of vertebrate site formation in underwater caves https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.13.705854v1

Latitudinal dependence of stability trends in marine plankton in the Cenozoic https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.11.705334v1

Surface area calculations of lamellar support respiratory function of trilobite exopodites https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.02.702636v1

The fossil record of siliceous sponge spicules can be taken at face value https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.27.702024v1

Walrus Population-specific Marine Reservoir Offsets (ΔR) for Calibration of Radiocarbon Dates: Implications for Arctic Chronologies and Medieval Trade https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.21.698949v1

Diverse megamammals exploited by humans, chronology and palaeoecology at Taima-Taima, Late Pleistocene, South America https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.22.701027v1

Possible planktonic lifestyle of the Silurian trilobite Deiphon evaluated through 3D modelling https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.12.698700v1

Experimental evidence for a microbial origin of reduction spots in red beds https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.12.699011v1

Hallucigenia's diet illuminates the feeding ecology of Cambrian lobopodians https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.28.696761v1

Homology of the dark cells of Paleozoic liverworts with the specialized oil body cells of modern liverworts (Marchantiophyta) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.24.696392v1

A comprehensive identification protocol for postcranial bones of Southeast Asian Ruminantia. Part 1: Osteometry https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.18.695071v1

Theoretical Morphology of Avian Wing Planform Reveals Variable Optimisation to Flight Style https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.16.692902v1

Garamaudo bauciensis, a new freshwater Mosasauridae (Reptilia, Squamata) from the Santonian (Late Cretaceous) of Provence, southeastern France https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.11.693649v1

The taxonomics of the diverse, lithe basal eutyrannosaur genera and species of late Maastrichtian western North America https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.10.693447v1

Reinterpretation of Bakiribu waridza from the Romualdo Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of Brazil: a fish not a pterosaur https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.10.693067v1

Examples of adaptive peak tracking as found in the fossil record https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.07.692820v1

Old Collections, New Perspectives: Analytical Reassessment of One of Europe's Biggest Archaeological Broomcorn Millet Deposits (Romania) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.26.690670v1

FINS - A global occurrence dataset of fossil neoselachians from the Cretaceous to the Quaternary https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.21.689757v1

Complexity Begets Simplicity: Self-Supervised Learning for Palaeontological Images with Few or No Labels https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.13.688022v1

New data on Quaternary lagomorphs from Lagoa Santa, State Of Minas Gerais, Brazil https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.10.687685v1

A Quantitative Review of Biodiversity Trends during the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.05.686803v1

Predator-prey scaling laws support a suspension-feeding lifestyle in Cambrian lobopodians https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.05.686786v1

Niche partitioning and limited mobility characterise Middle Pleistocene kangaroos from eastern Australia https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.30.685489v1

The phylogenetic signal of extinction through the rise and fall of early vertebrates: field of bullets or clustered strike? https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.27.684355v1

The locomotor behavior of subfossil Malagasy sloth-lemurs (Strepsirrhini: Palaeopropithecidae) and koala-lemurs (Strepsirrhini: Megaladapidae): new insights from limb trabecular bone https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.21.683631v1

{micro}CT Scanning Effects on DNA and a Multi-Step Workflow for Archaeological Petrous Bones https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.02.680114v1

Palaeoproteomics reveals bovine carcass processing with 6,000-year-old flint tools https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.29.679186v1

Mandibular morphology clarifies phylogenetic relationships near the origin of crown birds https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.26.678747v1

Brawn before bite in endemic Asian mammals after the end-Cretaceous extinction https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.24.678280v1

A stromatoporoid-like sediment-agglutinating sponge from microbialites of Cambrian Stage 4 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.25.678569v1

Microwear variability in a spatially and temporally constrained elephant population: Implications for interpreting the diets of extant and extinct proboscideans https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.14.676112v1