We here present a thorough documentation of the vertebral morphology and intracolumnar
variation across non-caenophidian snakes. Our studied sample of multiple individuals …

Abstract The Mesozoic era (252–66 million years ago), known as the domain of dinosaurs,
witnessed a remarkable ecomorphological diversity of early mammals. The key mammalian …

Background Body mass estimation is of paramount importance for paleobiological studies,
as body size influences numerous other biological parameters. In mammals, body mass has …

After the 2017 Ebola virus (EBOV) outbreak in Likati, a district in northern Democratic
Republic of the Congo, we sampled small mammals from the location where the primary …

There exist three key clades relevant to living mammals (Fig. 6.1). The first is Synapsida—
based on the total group, ie, any species more closely related to an opossum than to an …

The Central African house snake Boaedon olivaceus has a large distribution from the forests
of West Africa to Mabira Forest in Uganda. We sequenced two mitochondrial (cyt b and ND4) …

Restricted variation in numbers of presacral vertebrae in mammals is a classic example of
evolutionary stasis. Cervical number is nearly invariable in most mammals, and numbers of …

How Thor Lost his Thunder is the first major English-language study of early medieval
evidence for the Old Norse god, Thor. In this book, the most common modern …

Biological structures with extreme morphologies are puzzling because they often lack
obvious functions and stymie comparisons to homologous or analogous features with more …

RESUMO O ser humano sempre foi fascinado pelas outras espécies animais. E tal
admiração constitui a base da chamada Zoologia Cultural, setor da Ciência que estuda a …