Unlike their medium-sized relatives of the genus Canis, whose arrival is dated around 3 Ma,
the appearance in western Europe of large-sized hypercarnivorous canids took place at the …

Background Adaptive radiation, the evolution of ecological and phenotypic diversity from a
common ancestor, is a central concept in evolutionary biology and characterizes the …

Rodents are important components of nearly every terrestrial ecosystem and display
considerable ecological diversity. Nevertheless, a lack of data on the ecomorphology of …

Members of the order Carnivora display a broad range of locomotor habits, including
cursorial, scansorial, arboreal, semiaquatic, aquatic, and semifossorial species from multiple …

Simpson's “early burst” model of adaptive radiation was intended to explain the early
proliferation of morphological and functional variation in diversifying clades. Yet, despite …

The present article offers a detailed review of the taxonomy, distribution and palaeoecology
of the genus Semigenetta. The study is based on new craniodental and postcranial remains …

Specialized carnivory is relatively uncommon across mammals, and bats constitute one of
the few groups in which this diet has evolved multiple times. While size and morphological …

Mammalian omnivores are a broad group of species that are often treated uniformly in
ecological studies. Here, we incorporate omnivorous dietary differences to investigate …

In the present study, we used linear morphometrics of the crania, mandible and dentition to
explore the association between craniodental shape and prey size among 35 species of …

Patterns of skull shape in Carnivora provide examples of parallel and convergent evolution
for similar ecomorphological adaptations. However, although most researchers report on …