New megaraptoran cranial material, is stratigraphically and geographically significant

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667123002975

North American pumas of the Pleistocene, are not ancrstral to modern Nearctic pumas. Instead the latter descend from Neotropical ancestors, who backmigrated north in the Holocene

https://academic.oup.com/jhered/article/91/3/186/850827

Vocal communication in a rsy species

https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bes2.2113

Like the moa of Quarternary New Zealand, the Late Cretaceous rhabdodontids appear to have been a speciose, insular radiation

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195667123003385

How tarantulas use their hairs

https://www.livescience.com/animals/spiders/why-are-tarantulas-so-hairy

A new dicroglossid frog is described from Sulawesi

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0292598

Gangtoucunia, a Cambrian problematicum from the Wulongging Formation, is identified as an armored medusozoan. Tnus assisting in the systematics of some other exoskeletal Cambrian problematica, ie. Sphenothallus, Byronia, and hyolithelminths.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2022.1623

Newly described tatantula spiders, from Ecuador

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1029461

Monkeys from tbe late Eocene to early Oligocene, of Fayum, were unsurprisingly frugivorous. Just as expected is dental chipping provides evidence, for the niche partituoning of species in Fayum, by differences in the secondary and fallback foods, these first monkeys were consuming.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.24884

The alvarezsaurid Jaculinykus has been described, bssed upon an individual preserved in a sleeping position, similar to those of birds and Early Cretaceous saurornithoidids/troodontids. So the avian speeping posture is obviously deeper in the avian tree, than is avian flight ability. Incidentally the material looks recerrable to the genus Mononykus, described in 1993, andwhich in my opinion, shoukd encompass Shuvuuia
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0293801

I gind it very unlikely that Homo floresiensis is currently extant, given the dating of the fossils including the Palaeolithic Mode 1 artifacts, which are technically a form of trace fossil, similar to fossil footprints.

The first H. sapiens to encounter this species, would be ancestral Australomelanesians, on the way to continental Sahulland, which they reached by ~50 million years ago.

Even the Australo-Melanesian component of the modern, essentially dihybrid Wallacean genome, is from a backmigration of Papuan vegeculturists. (The remainder is Southern Mongoloid, from Sundaland seafarers.)

So any folk memories of the Liang Bua and Mata Menge 'hobbits', must surely be indirect.

And given the success of Homo sapiens as a niche thief, it seems certain early H. sapiens hunter gatherers would have replaced H. floresiensis by ecological competition. Their subsistence likely encompassed the same resources, as H. floresiensis, and more; and H. sapuens cognitive skills and toolkits, were more complex to obtain this.

I find it very unlikely any Austronesian speaking community, had direct experiences with living Homo floresiensis in the Holocene.

Even Greg Forth thinks any direct experiences or folk memories, have come to us filtered through a template of Austronesian folklore. Seen also from Hawaii to Madagascar, and down to Flores and Sumba.

https://www.iflscience.com/anthropologist-believes-an-ancient-human-species-may-have-been-sighted-on-flores-island-67668

A new paper using computer modelling, claims human activities have globally extirpated a ninth of all bird species, and especially in Oceania, as you might expect. But, most of those species are unknown, because this is, after all, computer assisted prediction, and not a fact revealed by a computer.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-43445-2

Beavers reintriduced into Lincolnshire, England

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-67682408?at_bbc_team=editorial&at_link_id=7D1108A2-9B68-11EE-BD31-298B8161DE7E&at_campaign=Social_Flow&at_campaign_type=owned&at_link_origin=BBC_Radio_5_live&at_link_type=web_link&at_medium=social&at_format=link&at_ptr_name=facebook_page&fbclid=IwAR21VEDqom3BA08u3cYFg5n27UJVdfzevi_NteKvhaH16IXJ8DnRgFgzpLE

Unravelling the nexus that is the bat genus Myotis, has revealed an endemic Corsican species, Euripe's latest described mammal

https://bioone.org/journals/revue-suisse-de-zoologie/volume-130/issue-2/RSZ.0108/Newly-described-and-already-endangered--a-new-mammal-species/10.35929/RSZ.0108.full

The rolling mechanism of some of the trilobites, is elucidated by fossil specimens

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.2212

Quartz gobbling earthworms modify the earth's soils via their gizzards

https://eos.org/articles/quartz-gobbling-worms-are-weathering-earths-soils

One of the mysteries about archosaur evolution, is when the specially crocodilian mode of breathing evolved. Uniquely among reptiles, crocodilians use their livers as mobile diaphragms, to tidally pump air in and out of their lungs.

This peculiar innovation is as unique to crocodilians, as milk glands are to mammals, or plumage to birds. Now it is possible to recognise traces of this breathing system, by examining a series of archosaur vertebrae. Ultrasound also proves that the lung is physically repositioned, when a crocodilian inhales.

https://peerj.com/articles/16542/

How can human-like aging, or senescence, be explained if many organisms do not become senescent with age?

https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-023-01716-w

Albatrosses use infeasound to detect tge location of food-attracting upwellings. Did pelagic pterosaurs and bonytooths, have similar super-sensory abilities?

https://www.sciencealert.com/worlds-largest-seabirds-follow-sound-across-the-ocean-to-faraway-food

A new chaoyangooterid ptetodactyl, from tge Chinese Jehol Biota, is described revealing new and rarely preserved anatomical details

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-48076-7