"Anthropogenic disturbance and climate change can result in dramatic increases in the emergence of new, ecologically novel, communities of organisms. We used a standardised framework to detect local novel communities in 2135 pollen time series over the last 25,000 years. Eight thousand years ...
"In fossil tetrapods, limb bone histology is considered the most reliable tool not only for inferring skeletal maturity—a crucial assessment in palaeobiological and evolutionary studies—but also for evaluating the growth dynamics within the ontogenetic window represented by the primary bone cortex....
"The squamates (lizards, snakes, and relatives) today comprise more than 10,000 species, and yet their sister group, the Rhynchocephalia, is represented by a single species today, the tuatara. The explosion in squamate diversity has been tracked back to the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution, 100 mi...
"The phragmocone-bearing coleoid cephalopods Sepia, Sepiella, Metasepia and Hemisepius (sepiids) are the most diverse of all extant chambered cephalopods and show the highest disparity. As such, they have a great potential to serve as model organisms to better understa...
"Ecological interactions are ubiquitous on tropical coral reefs, where sessile organisms coexist in limited space. Within these high-diversity systems, reef-building scleractinian corals form an intricate interaction network. The role of biotic interactions among reef corals is well established on ...
"Various Mesozoic marine reptile lineages evolved streamlined bodies and efficient lift-based swimming, as seen in modern aquatic mammals. Ichthyosaurs had low-drag bodies, akin to modern dolphins, but plesiosaurs were strikingly different, with long hydrofoil-like limbs and greatly variable neck a...
Mittwoch, 27.04.22 // 18:30 – 20:30
Ort: Energie Campus Nürnberg (EnCN) „Auf AEG“ Forum 2. OG, Fürther Straße 250, 90429 Nürnberg
Der Bericht des Weltklimarats: Was bedeutet er für unsere Gesellschaft? Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kießling Geozentrum Nordbayern, Lehrstuhl für Paläoumwelt Ende Februar h...
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"Birds and their dinosaur ancestors had feathers, and now it seems that a distantly related group called pterosaurs had them, too. The finding extends the origins of feathers back to long before birds evolved, and sheds light on their role." Publication in Nature News and Views
"Nine species of Virgilian (Late Pennsylvanian) coiled nautiloids are described from the Finis Shale Member of the Graham Formation in north-central Texas, southern Midcontinent of North America. They include Tainoceras monilifer Miller, Dunbar and Condra, Metacoceras quadratum sp. nov., Endolobus ...
