A remarkable diversity of plant-eating mammals known as South American native ungulates
(SANUs) flourished in South America for most of the Cenozoic. Although some of these …

Inferring the body mass of fossil taxa, such as non‐avian dinosaurs, provides a powerful tool
for interpreting physiological and ecological properties, as well as the ability to study these …

Background Some neotropical, fleshy-fruited plants have fruits structurally similar to
paleotropical fruits dispersed by megafauna (mammals> 103 kg), yet these dispersers were …

In recent decades there has been a growing interest in proboscideans' body size, given that
mass is highly correlated with biological functions. Different allometric equations have been …

Since the late eighteenth century, fossils of bizarre extinct creatures have been described
from the Americas, revealing a previously unimagined chapter in the history of mammals …

South America lost around 52 genera of mammals during a worldwide event known as the
Late Quaternary Extinction episode. More than 80% of South American mammals weighing> …

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This work examines whether stepwise discriminant function analysis of a suite of
craniodental variables enables feeding behaviour and habitat preferences to be identified in …

The Native American on a horse is an archetypal Hollywood image, but though such
equestrian-focused societies were a relatively short-lived consequence of European …

The Arroyo Seco 2 site contains a rich archaeological record, exceptional for South America,
to explain the expansion of Homo sapiens into the Americas and their interaction with extinct …