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 …

This review provides an up-to-date synthesis of the matrilineal phylogeography of a uniquely
well-studied Holarctic mammal, the brown bear. We extend current knowledge by presenting …

The late Early to early Middle Pleistocene section from Torrent de Vallparadís is a 20 m-
thick, composite section with multiple stratigraphic horizons, which have yielded close to …

Abstract The Pleistocene of the Iberian Peninsula is currently a focus of intense
paleontological, archaeological and geological research. To a large extent, these inquiries …

The giant short-faced hyena, Pachycrocuta brevirostris, was the largest and most
spectacular bone-cracking hyena that ever existed. Although already extinct long ago, it was …

During the last field campaigns in the mammal fossiliferous site Apollonia 1 (Macedonia,
Greece), new carnivoran material has been discovered. The new collection added two new …

Dental morphology and tooth microwear studies are used as analytical proxies for
understanding the taxonomy, biochronology, paleobiology and ecogeographical context of …

The remains of 12 canid species that date back ca. 4.9 myr have been found at 116
paleontological localities. Among these localities, eight are dated to the Pliocene age, 12 …

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 …

Panthera gombaszoegensis was recorded over from 100 African and Eurasian localities,
ranged between 2.5 and 0.3 Myr. Among them, seven cave sites, Żabia, Tunel Wielki, Kozi …