The South American native ungulates (SANUs) are usually overlooked in Eutherian
phylogenetic studies. In the rare studies where they were included, the diversity of SANUs …

We investigated dental homologies, development, and growth in living and fossil hyracoids
and tested if hyracoids and other mammals show correlations between eruption patterns …

The Fayum has yielded one of the oldest and richest records of fossil mammals from Africa.
Today, the Fayum Depression represents an oasis in the Western Desert of Egypt, south of …

Serially homologous elements pose an identification problem in fragmentary records,
particularly those of vertebrate fossils. Examples include individual vertebrae in the vertebral …

Gene loss can promote phenotypic differences between species, for example, if a gene
constrains phenotypic variation in a trait, its loss allows for the evolution of a greater range of …

Abstract The Oligocene Malembo locality, Cabinda exclave, Angola, has yielded a rich
vertebrate fauna represented by fragmentary remains. This fossiliferous locality is the only …

This Fossil Friday features the giant hyrax Titanohyrax andrewsi from the Early Oligocene of
Fayum in Egypt (Tabuce 2016), because today we look into the origins of the placental …

Living representatives of the mammalian order Hyracoidea are poorly diversified with only
three small-sized genera restricted to Africa and Middle East. Conversely, during the …

The ECLS-K is a school-based, nationally representative longitudinal study of 21,410
children who began kindergarten in the fall of school year 1998-1999 and were followed …