A well-preserved fossil snake from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil shows early ecological and brain shape disparity in the group.

Gado inserido no bioma menos preservado do Brasil não substitui funções ecológicas de nenhuma das espécies extintas há 12 mil anos

Estudo analisou funções ecológicas de grandes mamíferos do passado e do presente no pampa

Thayara S. Carrasco, Catalina Pimiento, Tiago B. Quental, Pedro L. Godoy This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here. The fossil record documen…

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Published in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Published in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (Ahead of Print, 2026)

When Bill the ten-foot-long Siamese crocodile started showing changes to his health, University of Utah Health radiologists and Hogle Zoo veterinary experts joined forces in the unique diagnostic ende...

Published in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Macroevolutionary models show that rib-based breathing released constraints on body size and cranial evolution in early amniotes.

Abstract. The Cretaceous/Palaeogene (K/Pg) mass extinction was catastrophic, eliminating much of terrestrial life and entire iconic vertebrate groups, such

<i>Dasosaurus tocantinensis</i> tinha cerca de 20 metros de comprimento e viveu aproximadamente há 120 milhões de anos; espécie mais próxima viveu na atual Espanha

Cidade et al. undertook a comprehensive treatment of the phylogenetic nomenclature of Caimaninae (which includes extant caimans). Rey et al. undertook morphometric analyses of Antulsporites spores fro...

The Huayuan biota exhibits extraordinary biodiversity, illuminating the impact of the Phanerozoic mass extinction around 513 million years ago and offering critical insights into the transformation of...

Gardiner et al. reconstruct the diversity of sharks and rays across the past 145 million years using deep learning and an extensive dataset. Their results unveil previously hidden patterns, including ...

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