Abstract Following the Late Jurassic, megaherbivore communities in North America undergo
a dramatic turnover in faunal composition: sauropods decline to the point of becoming …

Three properties of predation make this form of consumption an important agency of
evolution: universality (all species have predators), high frequency (encounters of prey with …

Islands are widely touted the ideal laboratories in which to study fundamental evolutionary
processes. However, islands are also designated as global conservation priorities given …

Elin Whitney-Smith s cholars have tried to explain the migration of Homo sapiens into the
New World, the spread of Clovis culture across the New World, and the subsequent collapse …

Trophic diversity within guilds of terrestrial predators is explored in three modern and two
ancient communities. The modern communities span a range of environments including …

The Optima Local Fauna represents an important glimpse into the ecological transition
between savannah and grassland during the late Miocene (Hemphillian) of what is now the …

The history of primates and rodents in South America started in the Oligocene, around 30
million years ago (Ma)(Hoffstetter 1969; Simpson 1980; Wyss et al. 1993; Takai et al. 2000) …

Our understanding of latest Cretaceous and earliest Paleogene mammalian evolution is
based almost entirely on the dental fossil record. Mammalian postcranial fossils are rare and …

Metatherian mammals (the stem-based clade of extant marsupials and their closest
relatives) were important members of North American communities during the Late …

Extant large members of the order Carnivora show high variability in feeding adaptation.
Morphology of their teeth and skull is a primer to predict diet in both extant and extinct …