The total-evidence approach to divergence time dating uses molecular and morphological
data from extant and fossil species to infer phylogenetic relationships, species divergence …

It has long been appreciated that analyses of genomic data (eg, whole genome sequencing
or sequence capture) have the potential to reveal the tree of life, but it remains challenging …

The highly productive waters of the Humboldt Current System (HCS) host a particular
temperate ecosystem within the tropics, whose history is still largely unknown. The Pisco …

The emergence of islands has been linked to spectacular radiations of diverse organisms.
Although penguins spend much of their lives at sea, they rely on land for nesting, and a high …

New Zealand is a globally significant hotspot for seabird diversity, but the sparse fossil
record for most seabird lineages has impeded our understanding of how and when this …

Since at least the middle-Miocene, the Antarctic Polar Front (APF) and the Subtropical Front
(STF) appear to have been the main drivers of diversification of marine biota in the Southern …

Recent fossil discoveries from New Zealand have revealed a remarkably diverse
assemblage of Paleocene stem group penguins. Here, we add to this growing record by …

Along the south‐western coast of South America, three genera of fossil phocids (true seals)
have been formally described from the late Neogene: Acrophoca and Piscophoca from Chile …

A late Pliocene (3.36–3.06 Ma) exposure of the Tangahoe Formation on the North Island of
New Zealand preserves close fossil relatives of many extant seabird clades. Here, we report …

We describe two partial but well-preserved Late Pliocene fossil skeletons from Taranaki,
New Zealand, as a new species of seabird. In structure, these bones match those of a …