Hidden Refugia: How West African Rainforests Survived Millions of Years of Climate Chaos
A comprehensive review reveals that West African rainforest refugia, from Mount Nimba to the Niger Delta, sheltered species through millions ...
Tag: palaeoecology
Triassic Giant: Fossil Growth Series Reveals the Life Story of Mastodonsaurus, Europe’s Largest Amphibian Predator
A complete fossil growth series reveals how the five-metre Triassic amphibian Mastodonsaurus giganteus developed from 12-millimetre larvae into the apex ...
Pliocene carnivorans from Jradzor, Armenia
A stratigraphically constrained Pliocene carnivoran assemblage from Jradzor, Armenia, spanning 4.16–3.98 Ma and 3.3 ± 0.03 Ma, documents five taxa ...
Jurassic bivalves from the Spiti area of the Himalayas, northern India
High in the Himalayas of northern India, black shales that accumulated on the floor of a vanished ocean are yielding ...
First Full Skeleton of Ancient Leptarctus Reveals a Badger-Like Predator That Once Ruled Miocene North America
The first known partial skeleton of the extinct mustelid Leptarctus wortmani reveals a badger-like terrestrial generalist that occupied Miocene North ...
Ancient Swiss Bone Bed Reveals a Drowned Coastal World from the Late Triassic
A reanalysis of the famous Niederschönthal bone bed in northern Switzerland shows it formed on a muddy Rhaetian coastal plain ...
Tiny fossil shells on the Isle of Wight reveal ancient Eocene global warming events
A new foraminiferal zonation of the London Clay Formation on the Isle of Wight allows scientists to locate Eocene hyperthermal ...
Colonial Land-Use Change Set the Stage for Australia’s Wildfire Crisis
A 1,000-year palaeoecological record shows that colonial disruption of Gunaikurnai cultural burning transformed open woodlands into dense, flammable eucalypt forest, ...
Colonial land-use change set the stage for Australia’s bushfire crisis
A millennium-long sediment record from Croajingolong National Park shows that the end of Gunaikurnai cultural burning after British colonisation drove ...
Ancient DNA From Lake Mud Records 1,000 Years of Human Life and Ecological Change
Scientists used sedimentary ancient DNA from Crawford Lake to reconstruct 1,000 years of ecological change and human activity, revealing Indigenous ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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