Big animals are exciting. The largest animal on Earth today is the blue whale which can reach 98 feet long – enormous (and ...

The extant neolampadids are known from depths as great as 1,200 m (Neolampas), however, most specimens have been collected form depths ranging from 135-400 m. When Kier (1966) erected the family ...

A key innovation can be defined as a newly evolved trait that allows a taxon to interact with the ... including both extinct and extant taxa. The idea of ecological opportunity acting as the ...

The choice of extant taxa for comparison, however, is often limited, and many studies are forced to utilize animal models that may be distantly related to the extinct taxon under consideration. This ...

At the most basic level, human evolution is articulated through classifications of, and evolutionary relationships among, hominin species. This article presents a basic taxonomy and phylogeny of ...

The research covers both extinct and extant taxa, and utilises both fossil and preserved ... The origin and distribution of biodiversity This project involves floristic and taxon-based research, ...

Crucially they found a potential cause - a bacterium called Bisgaard taxon 45 - in six of the animals. It is a type that has been found previously in swabs taken from tiger or lion bites.

L. K. Sheeran Source: Choice Magazine ‘This is a very impressive treatise. It contains tables and maps documenting available data on numerous populations of extant apes and the major threats to their ...