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Griffin, BW, Keating, JN, Milla Carmona, PS, Johanson, Z, Dearden, RP, Donoghue, PCJ & Rayfield, EJ 2026, 'Evolution of chondrichthyan jaw morphology, from ecological generalists to specialists', Paleobiology, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 131-144. https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.10077
Stumpf, S, Türtscher, J, López-Romero, FA, Villalobos-Segura, E, Begat, A, Amadori, M, Dearden, RP, Lauer, B, Lauer, R, Hecker, A & Kriwet, J 2026, 'Reappraisal of the extinct barbelthroat shark †Bavariscyllium and the nebulous origin of carcharhiniform galeomorphs', Communications Biology, vol. 9, no. 1, 158. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-09272-5
López-Romero, FA, Villalobos-Segura, E, Türtscher, J, Berio, F, Stumpf, S, Dearden, RP, Kriwet, J & Maldonado, E 2025, 'Evolution of the batoidea pectoral fin skeleton: convergence, modularity, and integration driving disparity trends', Evolutionary Ecology, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 111-134. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10682-025-10330-x
Schnetz, L, Lanzetti, A, Jones, A, Dearden, R, Lautenschlager, S, Giles, S, Johanson, Z & Sansom, I 2025, 'From head to tail: 3D imaging the whole body morphology of the stem gnathostome Anglaspis heintzi', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol. 44, no. 5, e2476441. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2025.2476441
Dearden, RP, Herrel, A & Pradel, A 2025, 'The pharynx of the iconic stem-group chondrichthyan Acanthodes Agassiz, 1833 revisited with micro-computed tomography', Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. 203, no. 2, zlae058. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae058
Andreev, PS, Zhu, M, Brakenhoff, L, Li, Q, Zhao, W, Peng, L, Marone, F, Dearden, RP & Rücklin, M 2025, 'The shoulder girdle of early chondrichthyans grew by skeletal remodelling', Biology Letters, vol. 21, no. 9, 20250411. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0411
Dearden, RP, Johanson, Z, O'Neill, HL, Miles, K, Bernard, EL, Clark, B, Underwood, CJ & Rücklin, M 2025, 'Three-dimensional fossils of a Cretaceous collared carpet shark (Parascylliidae, Orectolobiformes) shed light on skeletal evolution in galeomorphs', Royal Society Open Science, vol. 12, no. 4, 242011. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.242011
Yu, D, Ren, Y, Uesaka, M, Beavan, AJS, Muffato, M, Shen, J, Li, Y, Sato, I, Wan, W, Clark, JW, Keating, JN, Carlisle, EM, Dearden, RP, Giles, S, Randle, E, Sansom, RS, Feuda, R, Fleming, JF, Sugahara, F, Cummins, C, Patricio, M, Akanni, W, D’Aniello, S, Bertolucci, C, Irie, N, Alev, C, Sheng, G, de Mendoza, A, Maeso, I, Irimia, M, Fromm, B, Peterson, KJ, Das, S, Hirano, M, Rast, JP, Cooper, MD, Paps, J, Pisani, D, Kuratani, S, Martin, FJ, Wang, W, Donoghue, PCJ, Zhang, YE & Pascual-Anaya, J 2024, 'Hagfish genome elucidates vertebrate whole-genome duplication events and their evolutionary consequences', Nature ecology & evolution, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 519-535. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02299-z
Brownstein, CD, Near, TJ & Dearden, RP 2024, 'The Palaeozoic assembly of the holocephalan body plan far preceded post-Cretaceous radiations into the ocean depths', Royal Society of London. Proceedings B. Biological Sciences, vol. 291, no. 2033, 20241824. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.1824
Dearden, RP, Jones, AS, Giles, S, Lanzetti, A, Grohganz, M, Johanson, Z, Lautenschlager, S, Randle, E, Donoghue, PCJ & Sansom, I 2024, 'The three-dimensionally articulated oral apparatus of a Devonian heterostracan sheds light on feeding in Palaeozoic jawless fishes', Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 291, no. 2019, 20232258. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.2258
Dearden, RP, Herrel, A & Pradel, A 2023, 'Evidence for high-performance suction feeding in the Pennsylvanian stem-group holocephalan Iniopera', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 120, no. 4, e2207854119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2207854119
Dearden, R, Lanzetti, A, Giles, S, Johanson, Z, Jones, A, Lautenschlager, S, Randle, E & Sansom, I 2023, 'The oldest three-dimensionally preserved vertebrate neurocranium', Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06538-y
Dearden, RP, den Blaauwen, JL, Sansom, IJ, Burrow, CJ, Davidson, RG, Newman, MJ, Ko, A & Brazeau, MD 2021, 'A revision of Vernicomacanthus Miles with comments on the characters of stem-group chondrichthyans', Papers in Palaeontology, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 1949-1976. https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.1369
Review article
Clements, T, Atterby, J, Cleary, T, Dearden, RP & Rossi, V 2022, 'The perception of palaeontology in commercial off-the-shelf video games and an assessment of their potential as educational tools', Geoscience Communication, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 289-306. https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-5-289-2022
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