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Fossils

Decay experiments and microbial community analysis of water lily leaf biofilms: Sediment effects on leaf preservation potential

Brianne Palmer, Sabina Karačić, Shook Ling Low, Kathrin Janssen, Harald Färber, Moritz Liesegang, Gabriele Bierbaum, Carole T. Gee

published 18 Dec 2024

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Body-size evolution in gastropods across the Plio-Pleistocene extinction in the western Atlantic

Brendan M. Anderson, Elizabeth Petsios, Jessica Behn, Amy Betz, Warren D. Allmon, Bruce S. Lieberman, Jonathan R. Hendricks

published 13 Dec 2024

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Historical ecology reveals the “surprising” direction and extent of shifting baselines for the Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostis)

Thomas J. Pluckhahn, David K. Thulman

published 20 Nov 2024

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The most detailed anatomical reconstruction of a Mesozoic coelacanth

Luigi Manuelli, Jorge Mondéjar Fernández, Kathleen Dollman, Kudakwashe Jakata, Lionel Cavin

published 06 Nov 2024

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Climatic and environmental changes of ~100 thousand years: The mammals from the early Middle Pleistocene sequence of Notarchirico (southern Italy)

Beniamino Mecozzi, Alessio Iannucci, Marco Carpentieri, Antonio Pineda, Rivka Rabinovich, Raffaele Sardella, Marie-Hélène Moncel

published 23 Oct 2024

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Phylogenetic and divergence analysis of Pentatomidae, with a comparison of the mitochondrial genomes of two related species (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae)

Wang Jia, Jing Chen, Siyuan Ge, Zhenhua Zhang, Yuliang Xiao, Long Qi, Qing Zhao, Hufang Zhang

published 23 Oct 2024

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Earliest evidence of granivory from China (Shanxi Formation) points to seeds as a food source and nursing habitat for insects in the earliest Permian humid tropical forests of Cathaysia

Artai A. Santos, Torsten Wappler, Stephen McLoughlin

published 14 Oct 2024

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A possible later stone age painting of a dicynodont (Synapsida) from the South African Karoo

Julien Benoit

published 18 Sep 2024

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Molecular time estimates for the Lagomorpha diversification

Leandro Iraçabal, Matheus R. Barbosa, Alexandre Pedro Selvatti, Claudia Augusta de Moraes Russo

published 06 Sep 2024

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Identification of Late Pleistocene and Holocene fossil lizards from Hall’s Cave (Kerr County, Texas) and a primer on morphological variation in North American lizard skulls

David T. Ledesma, Simon G. Scarpetta, John J. Jacisin III, Antonio Meza, Melissa E. Kemp

published 15 Aug 2024

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First evidence of marine turtle gastroliths in a fossil specimen: Paleobiological implications in comparison to modern analogues

Giovanni Serafini, Caleb M. Gordon, Jacopo Amalfitano, Oliver Wings, Nicole Esteban, Holly Stokes, Luca Giusberti

published 06 May 2024

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The age and growth information of a ctenoid scale fossil from the Upper Cretaceous Nenjiang Formation in Songliao Basin, China

Zhaoqing Liu, Xiaobo Li, Robert R. Reisz

published 03 May 2024

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Pollen identification through convolutional neural networks: First application on a full fossil pollen sequence

Médéric Durand, Jordan Paillard, Marie-Pier Ménard, Thomas Suranyi, Pierre Grondin, Olivier Blarquez

published 30 Apr 2024

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