Learn how Miocene fossils from the Mojave Desert reveal that pronghorn running adaptations developed long before high-speed cheetahs appeared in North America.
Projections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of today’s animals — including humans — may struggle, or fail, to survive. Yet ...
PLATE 1. Figures 1–4: Carcharhinus amblyrhynchoides (DGCUSB/BB-115,112), upper antero-lateral, Figures 5–6: Carcharhinus brevipinna (DGCUSB/BB-136), upper tooth, Figures 7–10: Carcharhinus perezi ...
It’s a show-down as old as time: grand behemouth of a marine mammal versus ancient monster of a shark. These shark–cetacean trophic interactions span eons, preserved as bite marks in our fossil record ...
This unprecedented find sheds light on avian behavior dating back 13–15 million years and marks a major milestone in behavioral paleontology. Unlike typical trace fossils that preserve isolated ...
Iron-rich rocks at McGraths Flat preserve Miocene rainforest life in remarkable detail, reshaping ideas about how and where ...
Background for a paleoecological study of the Santa Cruz Formation (late early Miocene) on the Atlantic Coast of Patagonia / Sergio F. Vizcaíno, Richard F. Kay, and M. Susana Bargo -- Tephrochronology ...
1. Grasses using the C₄ photosynthetic pathway dominate today's savanna ecosystems and account for ∼20% of terrestrial carbon fixation. However, this dominant status was reached only recently, during ...
Fourteen species of the ostracode genus Cytheridea, twelve new, are described and assigned to the subgenera Haplocytheridea and Leptocytheridea. Two new genera, Anomocytheridea and Perissocytheridea, ...