Placental mammals occupy a larger morphospace and are taxonomically more diverse than
marsupials by an order of magnitude, as shown by quantitative and phylogenetic studies of …

This is a succinct and current review of pertinent literature to guide developing serum
therapy as an emergent treatment to save human lives at times of natural or genetically …

Enhanced attachment ability is common in plants on islands to avoid potential fatal passive
dispersal. However, whether island insects also have increased attachment ability remains …

Biogeography and Evolution in New Zealand provides the first in-depth treatment of the
biogeography of New Zealand, a region that has been a place of long-enduring interest to …

Abstract Changes in behaviour may initiate shifts to new adaptive zones, with physical
adaptations for novel environments evolving later. While new mutations are commonly …

The evolutionary sequence of events that led to flight and echolocation in bats is a
compelling question in biology. Fundamentally lacking from this discussion is the ontogeny …

Pterodactyloid pterosaurs are widely interpreted as terrestrially competent, erect-limbed
quadrupeds, but the terrestrial capabilities of non-pterodactyloids are largely thought to have …

Bats show a remarkable ecological diversity that is reflected both in dietary and foraging
guilds (FGs). Cranial ecomorphological adaptations linked to diet have been widely studied …

Among the well-known small mammal assemblages of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland,
the one from Tunel Wielki Cave is one of the most interesting for the Pleistocene …

The form-function paradigm postulates the existence of a correlation between form and
function; a remarkable example of this is the transformation of the forelimb of bats into wings …