The colonisation of freshwater and marine ecosystems by land vertebrates has repeatedly
occurred in amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals over the course of 300 million years …

Africa's fossil record of late Cenozoic mammals documents considerable ecological and
evolutionary changes through time. Here, we synthesize those changes in the context of the …

Paleontological and neontological systematics seek to answer evolutionary questions with
different data sets. Phylogenies inferred for combined extant and extinct taxa provide novel …

Aim For 80 years, popular opinion has held that most of Madagascar's terrestrial vertebrates
arrived from Africa by transoceanic dispersal (ie rafting or swimming). We reviewed this …

We define 17 African land mammal ages, or AFLMAs, covering the Cenozoic record of the
Afro-arabian continent, the planet's second largest land mass. While fossiliferous deposits …

Fascioliasis is a highly pathogenic disease affecting humans and livestock worldwide. It is
caused by the liver flukes Fasciola hepatica transmitted by Galba/Fossaria lymnaeid snails …

Modern tropical and subtropical C4 grasslands and savannas were established during the
late‐Miocene and Pliocene, over 20 Myr after evolutionary originations of the C4 …

While monogenean worms are mainly parasites of the gills and skin of fish, and to a lesser
extent parasites of the oral cavity, urinary bladder, and/or conjunctival sacs of amphibians …

The formation of accretionary wedges with oversteepened slopes and uplifted axial zones
has been demonstrated to be potentially associated with highly oblique plate convergence …

Hippopotamoids are herbivorous mammals that originated in the late middle Eocene. This
taxon includes animals with a great variety of sizes and body proportions, from small and …