Vertebrate palaeontology is a lively field, with new discoveries reported every week... and
not only dinosaurs! This new edition reflects the international scope of vertebrate …

Polar ecosystems are experiencing amongst the most rapid rates of regional warming on
Earth. Here, we discuss 'omics' approaches to investigate polar biodiversity, including the …

Simple Summary All life is derived from a single common ancestor, whose descendants
coevolved with the planet, shaping the structure of biodiversity and the physical processes …

Diving is a relatively uncommon and highly specialized foraging strategy in birds, mostly
observed within the Aequorlitornithes (waterbirds) by groups such as penguins, cormorants …

The systematics of the Cricetid genus Neodon have long been fraught with uncertainty due
to sampling issues and a lack of comprehensive datasets. To gain better insights into the …

It has been postulated that ultraviolet reflectance is important in mate choice in King
Penguins Aptenodytes patagonicus, although not in other penguin species that do not have …

Synopsis Seahorses, pipefishes, trumpetfishes, shrimpfishes, and allies are a speciose,
globally distributed clade of fishes that have evolved a large number of unusual body plans …

One of the most famous examples of adaptive radiation is that of the Galápagos finches,
where skull morphology, particularly the beak, varies with feeding ecology. Yet increasingly …

Penguins (Spheniscidae) are a diverse clade of flightless, marine birds. Their eyes, likely a
primary driver of behaviour, have been noted to have anatomic adaptations to their …

A late Pliocene (3.36–3.06 Ma) exposure of the Tangahoe Formation on the North Island of
New Zealand preserves close fossil relatives of many extant seabird clades. Here, we report …