The clade Talpidae consists of specialized fossorial forms, shrew-like moles and semi-
aquatic desmans. As with all higher jawed vertebrates, different functional, phylogenetic and …

As a result of numerous fossil and subfossil finds of ostriches, there is great demand for a
comprehensive osteometric dataset for the living species and subspecies of the genus …

Two species lineages of North American late Paleocene Plesiadapis exhibit a pattern of size
divergence from a common ancestral lineage. Time series of fossils in each of these …

Despite the increasing importance of molecular sequence data, morphology still makes an
important contribution to resolving the phylogeny of many groups, and is the only source of …

Demographic profiling of archaeological assemblages offers a window into the shifting
exploitation strategies practiced by ancient societies. High resolution sex-specific age …

Palaeoecological deductions are vital for understanding the evolution and diversification of
species within prehistoric environments. This review highlights the multitude of ways in …

For taphonomic and practical reasons, our understanding of morphological evolution within
and among species is based primarily on measurements taken from one or a few …

Non-avialan theropod dinosaurs had diverse ecologies and varied skull morphologies.
Previous studies of theropod cranial morphology mostly focused on higher-level taxa or …

Theropod dinosaurs, an iconic clade of fossil species including Tyrannosaurus and
Velociraptor, developed a great diversity of body size, skull form and feeding habits over …

How do brain size and proportions relate to ecology and evolutionary history? Here, we use
virtual endocasts from 38 extinct and extant rodent species spanning 50+ million years of …