The atmospheric methane burden is increasing rapidly, contrary to pathways compatible
with the goals of the 2015 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Paris …

Digestive physiology has played a prominent role in explanations for terrestrial herbivore
body size evolution and size-driven diversification and niche differentiation. This is based on …

An argument that we should be optimistic about the capacity of “methodologically
omnivorous” geologists, paleontologists, and archaeologists to uncover truths about the …

Human influences on the planet's atmosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere are of such
magnitude as to justify naming a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. Different starting …

The Mesozoic was the time of the break-up of Pangaea, with profound consequences not
only for the paleocontinental configuration, but also for paleoclimates and for the evolution of …

The Geozoic encompasses the 3.6 Ga interval in Earth history when life has existed. Over
this time, life has diversified from exclusively tiny, single-celled organisms to include large …

Herbivorous dinosaurs were abundant, species-rich components of Late Triassic–
Cretaceous terrestrial ecosystems. Obligate high-fiber herbivory evolved independently on …

New data and ideas are changing our view of conditions during the Cretaceous.
Paleotopography of the continents was lower than originally thought, eliminating the 'cold …

Methane (CH4) production is a ubiquitous, apparently unavoidable side effect of
fermentative fibre digestion by symbiotic microbiota in mammalian herbivores. Here, a data …

In this remarkable interdisciplinary study, anthropologist Brian Noble traces how dinosaurs
and their natural worlds are articulated into being by the action of specimens and humans …