Abstract Biotic Immigration Events (BIMEs) record the large-scale dispersal of taxa from one
biogeographic area to another and have significantly impacted biodiversity throughout …

The tribe Machairodontini is a major lineage of felid sabertooth cats that flourished in the late
Cenozoic and included the top predators in the ecosystem of that time. As top predators …

This book examines current knowledge on the evolution, ecology, and conservation biology
of both New World vultures (Cathartidae) and Old World vultures (Accipitridae). Extinct …

“A unique review of the many unusual and nearly worldwide occurrences of sabertooths and
their relatives over more than 50 million years.”—Choice With their spectacularly enlarged …

Saber-toothed cats (Machairodontinae) are among the most widely recognized
representatives of the now largely extinct Pleistocene megafauna. However, many aspects …

The sabretooth cat Smilodon populator was the largest felid in South America. It appears in
the fossil record in the Early Pleistocene, as an immigrant from North America, and becomes …

Over the Cenozoic, large cat-like forms have convergently evolved into specialized killers of"
megaherbivores" that relied on their large, and laterally compressed (saber-like) canines to …

Abstract The 300,000 year old Lower Paleolithic site Schöningen 13 II-4 became world
famous with the discovery of the oldest well-preserved and complete wooden spears …

We report two fossil procyonids, Cyonasua sp. and Chapalmalania sp., from the late
Pliocene of Venezuela (Vergel Member, San Gregorio Formation) and Colombia (Ware …

In recent years, advances in our understanding of feline relationships have cast light on their
evolutionary history. In contrast, there have been no phylogenetic analyses on machairodont …