The extinction of the giant hyena Pachycrocuta brevirostris and a reappraisal of the Epivillafranchian and Galerian Hyaenidae in Europe: Faunal turnover during the …

A Iannucci, B Mecozzi, R Sardella, DA Iurino - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
The giant, short-faced hyena Pachycrocuta brevirostris was the largest Hyaenidae ever
existed and the one that perfectly embodied the distinctive bone-cracking adaptations of this …

[HTML][HTML] A review on the Pleistocene occurrences and palaeobiology of Hippopotamus antiquus based on the record from the Barranc de la Boella Section (Francolí …

D Fidalgo, A Rosas, J Madurell-Malapeira… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The study of European Pleistocene Hippopotamus presents unresolved questions
and a lack of consensus among specialists being matter of hotly debate in the last decades …

Early–Middle Pleistocene transitions: linking terrestrial and marine realms

MJ Head, PL Gibbard - Quaternary International, 2015 - Elsevier
Marked by a progressive increase in the amplitude of climate oscillations, an evolving
waveform, and a shift towards a quasi-100 ky frequency, the Early–Middle Pleistocene …

Contributions of Quaternary botany to modern ecology and biogeography

HJB Birks - Plant Ecology & Diversity, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Quaternary (last 2.6 million years) botany involves studying plant megafossils
(eg tree stumps), macrofossils (eg seeds, leaves), and microfossils (eg pollen, spores) …

A simple rule to determine which insolation cycles lead to interglacials

PC Tzedakis, M Crucifix, T Mitsui, EW Wolff - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The pacing of glacial–interglacial cycles during the Quaternary period (the past 2.6 million
years) is attributed to astronomically driven changes in high-latitude insolation. However, it …

[HTML][HTML] HLA-DR in cytotoxic T lymphocytes predicts breast cancer patients' response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy

DP Saraiva, A Jacinto, P Borralho, S Braga… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Prediction of breast cancer response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy (NACT) is an urgent
need to promptly direct non-responder patients to alternative therapies. Infiltrating T …

Mode transitions in Northern Hemisphere glaciation: co-evolution of millennial and orbital variability in Quaternary climate

DA Hodell, JET Channell - Climate of the Past, 2016 - cp.copernicus.org
We present a 3.2 Myr record of stable isotopes and physical properties at IODP Site U1308
(reoccupation of DSDP Site 609) located within the ice-rafted detritus (IRD) belt of the North …

A 1-Ma record of sea surface temperature and extreme cooling events in the North Atlantic: A perspective from the Iberian Margin

T Rodrigues, M Alonso-García, DA Hodell… - Quaternary Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Iberian Margin is a sensitive area to track high and low latitude processes, and
is a key location to understand major past climatic and oceanographic changes. Here we …

[HTML][HTML] Reinforcing the idea of an early dispersal of Hippopotamus amphibius in Europe: Restoration and multidisciplinary study of the skull from the Middle …

B Mecozzi, A Iannucci, M Mancini, D Tentori… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
A skull of Hippopotamus recovered from the area of Tor di Quinto, within the urban area of
Rome (central Italy) is here redescribed. Despite being one of the most complete specimens …

[HTML][HTML] Toward generalized Milankovitch theory (GMT)

A Ganopolski - Climate of the Past, 2024 - cp.copernicus.org
In recent decades, numerous paleoclimate records and results of model simulations have
provided strong support for the astronomical theory of Quaternary glacial cycles formulated …