Living hominoids are distinguished by upright torsos and versatile locomotion. It is
hypothesized that these features evolved for feeding on fruit from terminal branches in …

Diverse lines of geological and geochemical evidence indicate that the Eocene-Oligocene
transition (EOT) marked the onset of a global cooling phase, rapid growth of the Antarctic ice …

Several scenarios have been proposed to explain rapid net size increases in some early
Cenozoic mammalian lineages: sustained and gradual directional change, successive …

Abstract The rise of Carnivora (Mammalia: Laurasiatheria) is an important evolutionary event
that changed the structure of terrestrial ecosystems, starting at the dawn of the Eocene, 56 …

Rhipicephalus are a species-diverse genus of ticks, mainly distributed in the Afrotropics with
some species in the Palearctic and Oriental regions. Current taxonomic consensus comprise …

Hyainailourine hyaenodonts are among the largest terrestrial carnivorous mammals known.
The clade is widely dispersed, found in Eurasia, North America, and Afro-Arabia in the …

Throughout the Paleogene, most terrestrial carnivore niches in Afro-Arabia were occupied
by Hyaenodonta, an extinct lineage of placental mammals. By the end of the Miocene …

Caenopithecine adapiform primates are currently represented by two genera from the late
Eocene of Egypt (Afradapis and Aframonius) and one from the middle Eocene of …

Although phylogenetic trees imply Asia as the ancestral homeland of the Hystricognathi
clade (Rodentia: Ctenohystrica), curiously the oldest known fossil occurrences of …

Abstract 'Paraphiomys' simonsi is a phiomorph rodent from the early Oligocene of Egypt (~
29–30 Mya) that has historically been aligned with much younger (<~ 20 Mya) Miocene …