Megafauna (animals≥ 45 kg) have probably shaped the Earth's terrestrial ecosystems for
millions of years with pronounced impacts on biogeochemistry, vegetation, ecological …

Rewilding is a restoration approach that aims to promote self-regulating complex
ecosystems by restoring non-human ecological processes while reducing human control …

A recent palaeontological excavation in Muierilor Cave, southern Carpathians (Romania),
has recovered one of the largest populations of Late Pleistocene wolves (Canis lupus …

Across the last~ 50,000 years (the late Quaternary) terrestrial vertebrate faunas have
experienced severe losses of large species (megafauna), with most extinctions occurring in …

This study uses tooth meso-and microwear together with bone collagen stable isotope ratios
(carbon (δ 13 C), nitrogen (δ 15 N), and sulphur (δ 34 S)) to investigate diet and human …

The crisis of biodiversity loss in the anthropogenic era requires new tools for studying non-
model organisms. Elephants, for example, are both an endangered species and excellent …

Museum legacy collections, often derived from large-scale archaeological excavations, can
serve as paleoenvironmental archives of Late Pleistocene megafaunal composition and …

Estimates of de novo mutation rates are essential for phylogenetic and demographic
analyses, but their inference has previously been impeded by high error rates in sequence …

Post-dispersal male African elephants (Loxodonta africana) live within complex social
networks. To quantify the durability of male elephant character (or personality) within these …

The postglacial recolonization of Fennoscandian flora and fauna was initiated when the land
became accessible as the last ice sheet retreated. In northern Sweden, plants are …