For the first time, scientists are putting extinct mammals on the map
-Majid
Club members has had some passing interest of the subject. 🙂
Robu, M., Wynn, J. G., Mirea, I. C., Petculescu, A., Kenesz, M., Puşcaş, C. M., Vlaicu, M., Trinkaus, E. & Constantin, S., 2018:
The diverse dietary profiles of MIS 3 cave bears from the Romanian Carpathians: insights from stable isotope (δ13C and δ15N) analysis.
–Palaeontology: Vol. 61, #2, pp. 209-219 [doi: 10.1111/pala.12338]
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/pala.12338
Cheers!!
–Mikko H.
Dear colleagues,
On behalf of Filipe, I would like to attract your attention on this newly published paper and thank all members of Kurten club for hosting and giving constructive feedback on earlier presentations of this project!
Da Silva, F. O., A.-C. Fabre, Y. Savriama, J. Ollonen, K. Mahlow, A. Herrel, J. Müller, and N. Di-Poï. 2018. The ecological origins of snakes as revealed by skull evolution. Nature communications 9:376.
doi:10.1038/s41467-017-02788-3
Best wishes,
Yoland S.
Reconciling taxon senescence with the Red Queen’s hypothesis (Zliobaite, Fortelius, Stenseth)
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature24656
About it:
https://natureecoevocommunity.nature.com/channels/521-behind-the-paper/posts/25646-do-species-age
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-07440-0
Productivity, biodiversity, and pathogens influence the global hunter-gatherer population density (Tallavaara, Eronen, Luoto)
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/12/26/1715638115.abstract
Press release in English:
Press release in Finnish:
The rise and fall of the Old World savannah fauna and the origins of the African savannah biome (Kaya, Bibi, Zliobaite, Eronen, Tang, Fortelius)
(Access unfortunately not provided by our university):
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0414-1?WT.feed_name=subjects_evolution
About it:
Hi all,
Ah, life is wonderful. 🙂
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature24679
Cau, A., Beyrand, V., Voeten, D. F. A. E., Fernandez, V., Tafforeau, P., Stein, K., Barsbold, R., Tsogtbaatar, K., Currie, P. J. & Godefroit, P., 2017: Synchrotron scanning reveals amphibious ecomorphology in a new clade of bird-like dinosaurs.
–Nature: in press [doi: 10.1038/nature24679]
Abstract:
“Maniraptora includes birds and their closest relatives among theropod dinosaurs. During the Cretaceous period, several maniraptoran lineages diverged from the ancestral coelurosaurian bauplan and evolved novel ecomorphologies, including active flight, gigantism, cursoriality and herbivory. Propagation X-ray phase-contrast synchrotron microtomography of a well-preserved maniraptoran from Mongolia, still partially embedded in the rock matrix, revealed a mosaic of features, most of them absent among non-avian maniraptorans but shared by reptilian and avian groups with aquatic or semiaquatic ecologies. This new theropod, Halszkaraptor escuilliei gen. et sp. nov., is related to other enigmatic Late Cretaceous maniraptorans from Mongolia in a novel clade at the root of Dromaeosauridae. This lineage adds an amphibious ecomorphology to those evolved by maniraptorans: it acquired a predatory mode that relied mainly on neck hyperelongation for food procurement, it coupled the obligatory bipedalism of theropods with forelimb proportions that may support a swimming function, and it developed postural adaptations convergent with short-tailed birds.”
Cheers!!
–Mikko H.
‘Beautiful’ dinosaur tail found preserved in amber
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38224564
Xing, L., McKellar, R. C., Xu, X., Li, G., Bai, M., Persons, W. S. I. V., Miyashita, T., Benton, M. J., Zhang, J., Wolfe, A. P., Yi, Q., Tseng, K., Ran, H. & Currie, P. J., A Feathered Dinosaur Tail with Primitive Plumage Trapped in Mid-Cretaceous Amber.
–Current Biology: in press [doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.10.008]
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-mammals-age-dinosaurs-powerful.html
From Greg Wilson and colleagues
A large carnivorous mammal from the Late Cretaceous and the North American origin of marsupials. Gregory P. Wilson, Eric G. Ekdale, John W. Hoganson, Jonathan J. Calede & Abby Vander Linden. Nature Communications. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13734
-Jacqueline
Hi all,
our PNAS paper has been published:
Herbivore teeth predict climatic limits in Kenyan ecosystems
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/10/18/1609409113
And the slides from my talk are online here https://sites.google.com/site/zliobaitefiles2/Kurten_ecometrics.pdf
Indrė