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Guilherme, E., D'Apolito, C., Muniz, F., Lomba, S. O., Aldrin, L., & Hsiou, A. S. (2023). New fossil anhingids from the upper Acre River (Late Miocene of southwestern Amazon). The Anatomical Record, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25329

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Melchor, R.N., Feola, S.F., Cardonatto, M.C. et al. First terror bird footprints reveal functionally didactyl posture. Sci Rep 13, 16474 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-43771-x

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Wu, Y., Ge, Y., Hu, H. et al. Intra-gastric phytoliths provide evidence for folivory in basal avialans of the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota. Nat Commun 14, 4558 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40311-z

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Thomas, D., Tennyson, A., Marx, F., & Ksepka, D. (2023). Pliocene fossils support a New Zealand origin for the smallest extant penguins. Journal of Paleontology, 1-11. doi:10.1017/jpa.2023.30

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Min Wang & Zhonghe Zhou (2023)
Low morphological disparity and decelerated rate of limb size evolution close to the origin of birds
Nature Ecology & Evolution (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02091-z
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02091-z

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Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche, José P. O’Gorman & Karen M. Panzeri (2023)
A new Cretaceous bird from the Maastrichtian La Colonia Formation (Patagonia, Argentina)
Cretaceous Research 105595
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2023.105595
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195667123001234

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Yan Wang, Zhiheng Li, Chun-Chieh Wang, Alida M. Bailleul, Min Wang, Jingmai O'Connor, Jinhua Li, Xiaoting Zheng, Rui Pei, Fangfang Teng, Xiaoli Wang and Zhonghe Zhou (2023)
Comparative microstructural study on the teeth of Mesozoic birds and non-avian dinosaurs
Royal Society Open Science 10(5): 230147
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230147
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.230147

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Sergio M. Nebreda, Luis M. Chiappe, Guillermo Navalon, Anusuya Chinsamy, José L. Sanz, Angela D. Buscalioni & Jesús Marugán-Lobón (2023)
A new enantiornithine specimen from the Lower Cretaceous of Las Hoyas: avifaunal diversity and life-history of a wetland Mesozoic bird
Spanish Journal of Paleontology 38 (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.7203/sjp.26504
https://ojs.uv.es/index.php/sjpalaeontology/article/view/26504
http://sepaleontologia.es/early-view-nebreda-et-al/

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Qiaohui Hu, Case Vincent Miller, Edward P. Snelling & Roger S. Seymour (2023)
Blood flow rates to leg bones of extinct birds indicate high levels of cursorial locomotion
Paleobiology (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2023.14
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/paleobiology/article/blood-flow-rates-to-leg-bones-of-extinct-birds-indicate-high-levels-of-cursorial-locomotion/DC4F386360E91EDB0A8BF7FC5A74E3F6