Projections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of today’s animals — including humans — may struggle, or fail, to survive. Yet ...
PLATE 1. Figures 1–4: Carcharhinus amblyrhynchoides (DGCUSB/BB-115,112), upper antero-lateral, Figures 5–6: Carcharhinus brevipinna (DGCUSB/BB-136), upper tooth, Figures 7–10: Carcharhinus perezi ...
It’s a show-down as old as time: grand behemouth of a marine mammal versus ancient monster of a shark. These shark–cetacean trophic interactions span eons, preserved as bite marks in our fossil record ...
A supposed climate paradox from the Miocene era has been deciphered by means of complex model simulations. When the Antarctic ice sheet grew to its present-day size around 14 million years ago, it did ...
The headline on a 1923 story in the San Pedro News Pilot — “World’s Greatest Fossil Bed at Palos Verdes” — may have been guilty of hyperbole. Sam Gnerre But the Palos Verdes Peninsula certainly has ...
An exquisitely preserved fossil forest from Japan provides missing links and helps reconstruct a whole Eurasia plant from the late Miocene epoch. Complete plant fossils are seldom found as a single ...
1. Grasses using the C₄ photosynthetic pathway dominate today's savanna ecosystems and account for ∼20% of terrestrial carbon fixation. However, this dominant status was reached only recently, during ...
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