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  1. Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project

    Article • Paleobiology, September 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Mairin Balisi, Humberto Carvajal-Chitty

  2. Cenozoic climate change and the evolution of North American mammalian predator ecomorphology

    Article • Paleobiology, September 2024, Cambridge University Press

    Mairin Balisi

  3. Functional Traits of the World's Late Quaternary Terrestrial Mammalian Predators

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, August 2024, Wiley

    Mairin Balisi

  4. Subchondral defects resembling osteochondrosis dissecans in joint surfaces of the extinct saber-toothed cat Smilodon fatalis and dire wolf Aenocyon dirus

    Article • PLOS One, July 2023, PLOS

    Mairin Balisi

  5. Lessons for conservation from beneath the pavement

    Article • Conservation Biology, September 2022, Wiley

    Mairin Balisi

  6. A novel trophic cascade between cougars and feral donkeys shapes desert wetlands

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, July 2022, Wiley

    Mairin Balisi

  7. Computed tomography reveals hip dysplasia in the extinct Pleistocene saber-tooth cat Smilodon

    Article • Scientific Reports, October 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mairin Balisi

  8. Echoes of the late Pleistocene in a novel trophic cascade between cougars and feral donkeys

    Article • April 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Mairin Balisi

  9. Hypercarnivorous teeth and healed injuries to Canis chihliensis from Early Pleistocene Nihewan beds, China, support social hunting for ancestral wolves

    Article • PeerJ, September 2020, PeerJ

    Mairin Balisi

  10. Iterative evolution of large-bodied hypercarnivory in canids benefits species but not clades

    Article • Communications Biology, August 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mairin Balisi

  11. Pandemics' historical role in creating inequality

    Article • Science, June 2020, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Mairin Balisi

  12. Computed tomography reveals hip dysplasia in Smilodon: Implications for social behavior in an extinct Pleistocene predator

    Article • January 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Mairin Balisi

  13. Jack Of All Trades Or Master Of One? Answers From Fossils And Dog Poop

    Article • June 2018, Science Trends

    Mairin Balisi

  14. First bone-cracking dog coprolites provide new insight into bone consumption in Borophagus and their unique ecological niche

    Article • eLife, May 2018, eLife

    Mairin Balisi

  15. Dietary specialization is linked to reduced species durations in North American fossil canids

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, April 2018, Royal Society Publishing

    Mairin Balisi

  16. Fossil canids from the Mehrten Formation, Late Cenozoic of Northern California

    Article • Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, January 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Xiaoming Wang, Mairin Balisi

  17. Skeletal trauma reflects hunting behaviour in extinct sabre-tooth cats and dire wolves

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, April 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mairin Balisi

  18. Abstract

    Article • eLife

    Mairin Balisi