Ecosystem engineers strongly influence the communities in which they live by modifying
habitats and altering resource availability. These biogenic changes can persist beyond the …

Increasing human pressure on strongly defaunated ecosystems is characteristic of the
Anthropocene and calls for proactive restoration approaches that promote self‐sustaining …

A well-preserved fetus of the extinct nothrotheriid sloth Nothrotherium maquinense,
recovered in situ within the skeletal remains of its mother from the karstic cave Toca da Boa …

Across the last~ 50,000 years (the late Quaternary) terrestrial vertebrate faunas have
experienced severe losses of large species (megafauna), with most extinctions occurring in …

Abstract The Santa Vitória Formation is a lithostratigraphic unit known for its fossil
assemblage of Pleistocene mammals, established in 1973 from sediments exposed along …

Three indices estimated from measurements of the humerus and ulna were used to suggest
possible ecological habits of eight extinct giant sloths from the Late Pleistocene of the …

The city of Araraquara in southeastern Brazil is unique regarding its paleontological record.
Flagstones have been quarried from eolianites (Botucatu Formation, Lower Cretaceous) …

Burrowing behavior is an important adaptation of animals that live in arid and semi-arid
conditions. In this paper, we describe examples of vertebrate burrows from the Upper …

Abstract The Permian Rio do Rasto Formation (Paraná Basin) crops out in southern Brazil
and was deposited under fluvio-lacustrine settings. A singular outcrop located in the Aceguá …

The deep past harbours exceptionally rich and diverse communities of non-human animals
and iconic species such as mammoth and reindeer are in the focus of popular and academic …