Biodiversity today has the unusual property that 85% of plant and animal species live on
land rather than in the sea, and half of these live in tropical rainforests. An explosive boost to …

Humanity has triggered the sixth mass extinction episode since the beginning of the
Phanerozoic. The complexity of this extinction crisis is centred on the intersection of two …

Mammals are the most encephalized vertebrates, with the largest brains relative to body
size. Placental mammals have particularly enlarged brains, with expanded neocortices for …

With~ 14,000 extant species, ants are ubiquitous and of tremendous ecological importance.
They have undergone remarkable diversification throughout their evolutionary history …

An animal's daily use of time (their “diel activity”) reflects their adaptations, requirements,
and interactions, yet we know little about the underlying processes governing diel activity …

Mammalian life shows huge diversity, but most groups remain nocturnal in their activity
pattern. A key unresolved question is whether mammal species that have diversified into …

Ecological specialization is a central driver of adaptive evolution. However, selective
pressures may uniquely affect different ecomorphological traits (eg, size and shape) …

Jaw morphology is closely linked to both diet and biomechanical performance, and jaws are
one of the most common Mesozoic mammal fossil elements. Knowledge of the dietary and …

Oxygenic photosynthesis starts with the oxidation of water to O 2, a light-driven reaction
catalysed by photosystem II. Cyanobacteria are the only prokaryotes capable of water …

The foods consumed by animals reflect their adaptations and ecological roles, which makes
diet an important trait for ecological, evolutionary, and paleobiological research. Rodents …