The middle ear bones of Mesozoic mammals are rarely preserved as fossils and the
morphology of these ossicles in the earliest mammals remains poorly known. Here, we …

One of the major lacunae in our knowledge of African hominoid evolution concerns the
origins of the chimpanzee and gorilla. Several thousand specimens from the Plio …

Although phylogenetic trees imply Asia as the ancestral homeland of the Hystricognathi
clade (Rodentia: Ctenohystrica), curiously the oldest known fossil occurrences of …

The recovery of a new species of small creodont from the Early Miocene of coastal Namibia
including associated upper and lower dental elements reveals that the group is in need of …

The dental remains of ziphodont (serrated-toothed) Crocodilia are reported for the first time
from the Paleocene-basal Eocene Kakara Formation of Bakhalag-Bughar area (Solan …

Dicynodont therapsids were discovered in the Permian Usili Formation (Ruhuhu Basin,
Tanzania) in the 1930s and in the Permian Ruhuhu Formation in the 1960s, with further …

The main goals of this study were to evaluate the distinctiveness of Homo erectus
neurocranial shape relative to other closely related species, and assess the likelihood that …

A new genus and species of hybodontoid elasmobranchs, Gansuselache tungshengi, is
described on the basis of an articulated skeleton from the Fangshankou Formation (Late …

The Shanidar Neandertals describes the functional morphology of the Neanderthals and
their place in human evolution based on a paleontological study of fossils discovered at …