The pattern of the varying climatic conditions in southern Europe over the last million years
is well known from isotope studies on deep-ocean sediment cores and the long pollen …

The Paleolithic record of the Levant encompasses several key changes in human
population dynamics and human biological and cultural evolution. These processes are …

Cueva Victoria has provided remains of more than 90 species of fossil vertebrates, including
a hominin phalanx, and the only specimens of the African cercopithecid Theropithecus …

The oldest evidence of a human presence in western Europe is currently documented at the
late Early Pleistocene sites of Barranco León and Fuente Nueva 3 (Guadix-Baza Basin, SE …

Amphibians are considered excellent indicators of ecological and climatic changes with a
remarkable phenotypic plasticity. The study of such adaptative capacities is central to …

Because most amphibians are water dependent and most reptiles are temperature
dependent, the climatic and/or environmental parameters in their immediate environment …

Background The present-day amphibian and reptile fauna of Western Siberia are the least
diverse of the Palaearctic Realm, as a consequence of the unfavourable climatic conditions …

In this paper, we present the ectothermic vertebrate fauna from the late Middle Miocene
locality Gratkorn (Austria). In total, 2 fish, 8 amphibian and 17 reptile taxa have been …

Despite the postulation of the “herpetofaunal stability hypothesis”, which suggests that the
herpetofauna underwent relatively few changes during the Pleistocene, the amphibian and …

In this paper, the early Pleistocene small vertebrate sequence of Quibas-Sima (Quibas
karstic complex, Murcia, SE Spain) is presented. The available magnetostratigraphic …