Time and again, over hundreds of millions of years, environmental disturbances have
caused mass extinctions of animals ranging from reptiles to corals. The anthropogenic loss …

Ephemeral resource patches (ERPs)–short lived resources including dung, carrion,
temporary pools, rotting vegetation, decaying wood, and fungi–are found throughout every …

Beetles occur in most terrestrial and freshwater habitats and a few occupy marine
environments. The most common life‐cycle type in beetles is holometaboly. More …

Recently, McKenna et al., 2015 (MCK15 hereafter) investigated the higher level
phylogenetic relationships of beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) using the most comprehensive …

During the past 20 years, more than 1,600 species of well-preserved fossil insects, including
members of over 270 families within 24 orders, have been described from the Middle …

Triassic fossils are rare but crucial for understanding the early evolution of large insect
clades including beetles (Coleoptera). Their phylogenetic assignment is problematic …

Abstract The northeastern Chinese Yanliao Biota (sometimes called the Daohugou Biota)
comprises numerous, frequently spectacular fossils of non‐marine organisms, occurring in …

Recent progress in beetle palaeontology has incited us to re‐address the evolutionary
history of the group. The Permian† Tshekardocoleidae had elytra that covered the posterior …

Behavior of extinct organisms can be inferred only indirectly, but occasionally rare fossils
document particular behaviors directly. Brood care, a remarkable behavior promoting the …

The Yanliao entomofauna, first established by Hong in 1983, refers to a Middle Jurassic
insect assemblage widely distributed in northern China. The fossil insects are primarily …