All modern mammals are descendants of the paraphyletic non-mammaliaform Synapsida,
colloquially referred to as the “mammal-like reptiles.” It has long been assumed that these …

Emydopoidea is one of the major dicynodont subclades and includes some purported
fossorial taxa. Various cranial and postcranial adaptations for fossoriality have long been …

The mammalian brain is very distinctive for its large relative size, enlarged olfactory bulbs,
and layered isocortex. These defining traits likely evolved in the non-mammalian …

We describe for the first time the presence of straight, curved and quasi‐helical burrows
preserved in plan, oblique and transversal views in the aeolian strata of the Permo‐Triassic …

Millipede fossils of late Permian to Early Triassic age are exceptionally rare worldwide. Two
specimens of Triassic millipedes, both associated with multitaxic tetrapod aggregations …

We have been monitoring spotted hyaena dens with camera traps at our site since 2016. We
describe a novel phenomenon: concurrent subterranean den sharing between spotted …

he African Light Source (AfLS) project is now almost eight years old. This article assesses
the history, current context and future of the project. There is by now considerable …

The search for the ancestors of mammals is historically connected with the extensive Karoo
Basin of South Africa. This is because the Karoo features some of the largest exposures of …

De rockster van de paleontologie schijnt nieuw licht op de uitsterving van dinosauriërs.
Triceratops, Tyrannosaurus en Brachiosaurus… We kennen ze allemaal, maar toch weten …

Gymnophiona, popularly known as caecilians, the most poorly known major taxon group
[RS2][MOU3] of extant amphibians, includes are elongated and limbless tetrapods, with …