"In this Special Issue, we present 11 of the 15 geoparks that show key aspects of the past and current volcanic development of Europe. The sites include currently active locations along the mid-Atlantic ridge, from the Canary Islands and the Azores in the south to Iceland in the north. Other sites ...
"The latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG) describes the pattern of increasing numbers of species from the poles to the equator. Although recognized for over 200 years, the mechanisms responsible for the largest-scale and longest-known pattern in macroecology are still actively debated. I argue here...
"Modern baleen whales are unique as large-sized filter feeders, but their roles were replicated much earlier by diverse marine reptiles of the Mesozoic. Here, we investigate convergence in skull morphology between modern baleen whales and one of the earliest marine reptiles, the basal ichthyosaurom...
"Theropods originated in the Late Triassic and their relations and early evolution are still topics of discussion. Within Neotheropoda, coelophysoids represent their earliest worldwide radiation and include most Triassic theropods, but their internal relations remain volatile. In this paper, we dis...
We're happy to finally be able to announce the publication BioDeepTime: A database of biodiversity time series for modern and fossil assemblages - Smith - Global Ecology and Biogeography. Well done BioDeepTime Team!
"Motivation: We have little understanding of how communities respond to var...
"Benefiting from their adaptability to extreme environments, subsurface microorganisms have been discovered in sedimentary and igneous rock environments on Earth and have been advocated as candidates in the search for extraterrestrial life. In this article, we study iron-mineralized microstructures...
"Fossils trapped in amber can reveal astonishing insights about the lives of ancient organisms. Amber can preserve life forms in incredible detail, from their three-dimensional anatomy down to cellular level. It also often catches animals in the middle of an action, like copulation, feeding or poll...
"Pterosaurs evolved a broad range of body sizes, from small-bodied early forms with wingspans of mostly 1–2 m to the last-surviving giants with sizes of small airplanes. Since all pterosaurs began life as small hatchlings, giant forms must have attained large adult sizes through new growth strategi...
"Bryozoans are becoming an increasingly popular study system in macroevolutionary, ecological, and paleobiological research. Members of this colonial invertebrate phylum display an exceptional degree of division of labor in the form of specialized modules, which allows for the inference of individu...
"Fossils of Devonian ammonoids are abundant and well-preserved in the Anti-Atlas of Morocco; as such they provide an invaluable record of regional morphological disparity changes (diversity of shapes) that characterise the first steps of ammonoid evolution. However, they were rarely analysed quanti...
