Beetles constitute the most biodiverse animal order with over 380 000 described species
and possibly several million more yet unnamed. Recent phylogenomic studies have arrived …

The Mesozoic is a key era for the rise of the modern insect fauna. Among the most important
evolutionary events in Mesozoic insects are the radiation of holometabolous insects, the …

Variation in species richness across the tree of life, accompanied by the incredible variety of
ecological and morphological characteristics found in nature, has inspired many studies to …

The long-term diversification of the biosphere responds to changes in the physical
environment. Yet, over the continents, the nearly monotonic expansion of life started later in …

The origin of flowering plants (angiosperms) was one of the most transformative events in
the history of our planet. Despite considerable interest from multiple research fields …

The insect order Phasmatodea is known for large slender insects masquerading as twigs or
bark. In contrast to these so-called stick insects, the subordinated clade of leaf insects …

The rapid Cretaceous diversification of flowering plants remains Darwin's 'abominable
mystery'despite numerous fossil flowers discovered in recent years. Wildfires were frequent …

Angiosperms became the dominant plant group in early to middle Cretaceous terrestrial
ecosystems, coincident with the timing of the earliest pulse of bird diversification. While living …

The order Onygenales is classified in the class Eurotiomycetes of the subphylum
Pezizomycotina. Families in this order have classically been isolated from soil and dung …

Global diversity patterns in the fossil record comprise a mosaic of regional trends,
underpinned by spatially non-random drivers and distorted by variation in sampling intensity …