National Museums Scotland

Recent papers from National Museums Scotland

1. Fern phloem evolution records a trend of decreasing conductivity through geological timeNature Plants · 2026
2. Coordinated transformations of the labyrinth and occiput during the dinosaur–bird transitionProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2026
3. A major monastic centre? Rethinking Lismore’s place in the ecclesiastical landscapes of early medieval BritainAntiquity · 2026
4. Becoming post-Neolithic: Social Process and Transformation in Southern Italian DeathwaysProceedings of the Prehistoric Society · 2026
5. Integrating Biobanking Into Conservation Practice: The Development and Impact of the EAZA BiobankZoo Biology · 2026
6. Fake figs, fooled fig wasps and rewarded phorid flies: brood‐site mimicry and mutualism in Heterostemma ficoides (Apocynaceae)New Phytologist · 2026
7. Improving elasmobranch baselines in the California Channel Islands through ZooMS and stable isotope analysesFrontiers in Environmental Archaeology · 2026
8. The Duntulm sauropod tracksite and environmental partitioning in Middle Jurassic dinosaurs on the Isle of Skye, ScotlandPapers in Palaeontology · 2026
9. Structural and compositional analysis of the ovipositor of the sawfly Rhogogaster scalaris and its functional implicationsJournal of Insect Physiology · 2026
10. Highly aquatic marine stem archosaur with soft tissue preservationScience Advances · 2026
11. Flying whales: Insights into the flipper of the humpback whale and its relatives using a novel tissue‐illuminating techniqueJournal of Anatomy · 2026
12. The genome sequence of the fungus gnat, Macrocera phalerata Wiedemann in Meigen, 1818 (Diptera: Keroplatidae)Wellcome Open Research · 2026
13. Did sturgeon ever breed in Britain? Evaluating historical evidence and conservation implicationsRoyal Society Open Science · 2026
14. Two New Species of Lonchaeidae (Diptera: Schizophora) from GuadeloupeTaxonomy · 2026
15. Phloem evolved gradually and asynchronously to xylem in early vascular plantsCurrent Biology · 2026
16. Docosia meijerei Meunier 19232026
17. Dynatosoma crassicornis Meunier 19042026
18. Dianepsia hissa Meunier 18992026
19. Cordyla inflata Blagoderov & Evenhuis 2026, comb. nov.2026
20. Palaeoanaclinia affinis Meunier 19042026