The evolution of sociality in insects is a highly discussed topic in biology. Fossil findings are
rarely included into the consideration, although they have a great potential to add also …

Beetle larvae contribute to the overall biomass with a great share, yet they often stay
unnoticed and underexplored. Larvae of the group Scraptiidae, also called false flower …

Abstract Larvae of Brachypsectridae (Texas beetles) have often been considered rare.
However, they are known from North America, Asia and Australia in the extant fauna, and …

The current biodiversity crisis warrants accurate measuring of biodiversity, often achieved by
counting species or higher taxonomic units, with morphological or molecular methods …

Brochuchus is a small crocodylid originally based on specimens from the early Miocene of
Rusinga Island, Lake Victoria, Kenya. Here, we report occurrences of Brochuchus from …

Resin is a plastic-like product of trees. Older occurrences of such resin are referred to as
amber and are considered fossil resin. Younger resins are termed copals. Even younger …

Using cladistic phylogenies (cladograms) to evaluate stratigraphy (taxon distributions and
correlations) necessitates various assumptions that include all of the assumptions built into …

Musical instruments provide material evidence to study the diversity and technical
innovation of music in space and time. We employed a cultural evolutionary perspective to …

Global inventory of shale-oil resources and reserves are far from being complete even in
mature basins which have been intensively drilled and produced and in which the main …

Background The fossil record provides the unique opportunity to observe evolution over
millions of years, but is known to be incomplete. While incompleteness varies spatially and …