 Zijlstra JS, Bautista A, Van den Hoek Ostende LW, de Vos J, Lyras G. In Press. A giant rat (Rodentia: Muridae: Rattus cf. everetti) from the Pleistocene of Masbate, Philippines. National Museum Papers.
 Athanassiou A, Lyras G.2011. Nyctereutes megamastoides (Mammalia: Carnivora: Canidae): variation and evolution.
Lyras G. 2011. First eat and then think: the relation between craniodental and neuroanatomical changes in carnivoran evolution.
De Vos J, van der Geer AAE, Lyras G. 2011. Homo floresiensis is a hominid that evolved in an insular environment.
Van der Geer AAE, Iliopoulos G, Lyras GA, de Vos J. 2011. The Middle Pleistocene deer of the Katharo basin (Crete, Greece) and its importance for a better understanding of the evolutionary history of the insular fauna of Crete.
9th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists, 14-19 June 2011, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
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 Van der Geer AAE, Lyras GA. 2011. Field Trip Guidebook. 9th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists, 14-19 June 2011, Heraklion, Crete, Greece: 32 pp.
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 Van der Geer AAE, Lyras GA,Van der Geer SB. 2011. Letter to the Editor: Microcephaly in ancient Greece, the Minoan microcephalus of Zakros . Child's Nervous System 27:1035.
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 Van der Geer A, Lyras G, De Vos J, Dermitzakis M. 2010. Evolution of Island Mammals: Adaptation and Extinction of Placental Mammals on Islands. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, c. 479 pp, with index.
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 Lyras GA, Van der Geer AAE, Rook L. 2010. Body size of insular carnivores: evidence from the fossil record. Journal of Biogeography, 37(6): 1007-1021.
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 Iliopoulos G, Lyras G, Rousiakis S, Athanassiou A. 2010. Wooly rhinos and wooly mammoths in Southern Greece? Using REE elements to trace the provenance of old museum collections.
Maniakas I, Iliopoulos G, Lyras G. 2010. Biometrical study of post-cranial deer material from the Late Pleistocene of Crete and Karpathos.
8th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists, 7-12 June 2010, Aix-en-Provence, France.
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 Lyras GA. 2009. The evolution of the brain in Canidae (Mammalia:Carnivora). Scripta Geologica 139: 1-93.
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 Van der Geer AAE, De Vos J, Dermitzakis M, Lyras G. 2009. Hoe dieren op eilanden evolueren. Majorca, Ibiza, Kreta, Sardiniie, Sicilie, Japan, Madagaskar, Malta. Utrecht: Veen Magazines, 229pp. ISBN 978 908571 169 8 / NUR 949. [IN DUTCH]
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 Lyras GA. 2009. A look into the fossil world. In: MI Papagrigorakis, K Dermitzaki, T Doxanaki, D Staboliadi (eds) Geological and Palaeontological Heritage: Retrieval, Conservation, Management and Display. Summer School Professional Development Program, Postgraduate Course of Museum Studies pp.55-59.
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 Lyras GA, Dermitzakis DM, Van der Geer AAE, Van der Geer SB, De Vos J. 2009. The origin of Homo floresiensis and its relation to evolutionary processes under isolation. Anthropological Science 117(1):33-43. Published online 1 August 2008.
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 Dermitzakis MD, Lyras GA. 2008. The history of the Museum of Paleontology and Geology of the University of Athens in an evolutionary perspective. Proceedings of the international workshop on management of collections, museums and archaeological sites. Thessalonica 2005. Mouseia 05:30-33.[IN GREEK]
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 Lyras GA. 2007. Museum labels and fieldnotes. Cranium 24 (2): 45-47.
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 Dermitzakis MD, Iliopoulos G, Van der Geer AAE, Lyras G. 2007. The Rise and Fall of the Cretan Deer.Abstracts of the XVII INQUA Congress. Quaternary International 167-168 (suppl.1): 97.
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 Lyras GA, Van der Geer AAE. 2007. The Late Pliocene vertebrate fauna of Vatera (Lesvos Island, Greece). Cranium 24 (2): 11-24.
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 Van der Geer AAE, De Vos J, Lyras G, Dermitzakis M. 2006. New data on the Pleistocene Cretan deer Candiacervus sp. II (Mammalia, Cervinae). In: Kahlke R-D, Maul LC, Mazza P (eds). Late Neogene and Quaternary biodiversity and evolution: Regional developments and interregional correlations. Proceedings of the 18th International Senckenberg Conference (VI International Palaeontological Colloquium in Weimar) vol. I. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 256: 131-137.
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 Lyras GA, Van der Geer AAE. 2006. Adaptations of the Pleistocene island canid Cynotherium sardous (Sardinia, Italy) for hunting small prey. Cranium 23 (1): 51-60.
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 Lyras GA, Van der Geer AAE, Dermitzakis MD, De Vos J. 2006. Cynotherium sardous, an insular canid (Mammalia: Carnivora) from the Pleistocene of Sardinia, and its origin. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26(3): 735-745.
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 Dermitzakis MD, Van der Geer AAE, Lyras GA. 2006. Paleopathological observations on a population of fossil deer from the Late Pleistocene of Crete. In: A Kalofourtis, N Papadopoulos, C Spiliopoulou, K Maravelias, A Chatziioannou (eds) Volume in honnor of Professor Andonis Koutselinis. pp.43-51. Athens. [IN GREEK]
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 Van der Geer AAE, De Vos J, Lyras GA, Dermitzakis MD. 2005. The mounting of a skeleton of the fossil species Candiacervus sp.II from Liko Cave, Crete, Greece. Proceedings of the International Symposium Insular Vertebrate Evolution: The Palaeontological Approach. Monogafies de la Societat d Historia Natural de les Balears 12:337-346.
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 Dermitzakis MD, Van der Geer AAE, Lyras GA. 2004. The phylogenetic position of raccoon dogs: implications of their neuroanatomy. Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Eastern Mediterranean Geology, 14 to 20 April, 2004, Thessaloniki, Greece, p. 307-310.
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 Dermitzakis M, Lyras G. 2003. The reconstruction of animals of the island environment at the Museum of Geology and Palaeontology of the University of Athens. The Museum 3: 16-17. [IN GREEK]
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 Lyras GA, Van der Geer AAE. 2003. External brain anatomy in relation to phylogeny of Caninae (Carnivora: Canidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 138:505-522.
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 De Vos J, Van der Made J, Athanassiou A, Lyras G, Sondaar P, Dermitzakis MD. 2002. Preliminary note on the Late Pliocene fauna from Vatera (Lesvos, Greece). Annales Geologiques des Pays Helleniques 39: 37-70.
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- Lyras GA, Van der Geer AAE, Dermitzakis MD. 2001. Evolution of the brain of Plio-Pleistocene wolves. Cranium 18(2):30-40.
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- Lyras GA. 2001. Adaptive radiation of the brain of the Caninae (Carnivora: Canidae). Proccedings of the 16th Annual Meeting of the Hellenic Society of Neuroscience, Thessaloniki, Greece, 19-21 October 2001:82.
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