The famous saber-tooth cat that lived in North America beginning about 2 million years ago survived by ambushing prey such as ...

Appearing in their first final since they last won in 2012, Ballinhassig returned to the senior ranks after a merited six-point victory over Ballincollig in the Co-Op Superstores Cork Premier IHC ...

Silvestro D., Salamin N., Antonelli A., Meyer X. (2019) Improved estimation of macroevolutionary rates from fossil data using a Bayesian framework. Paleobiology, doi ...

Vertebrate limb morphology often reflects the environment due to variation in locomotor requirements. However, proximal and distal limb segments may evolve differently from one another, reflecting an ...

Sexual selection is thought to be a major driver of phenotypic diversity and diversification in animals, but large-scale evolutionary patterns in sexually selected (SS) traits remain largely unknown.

My research focuses on the function of living and extinct animals. In my lab we use biomechanical analysis, including the engineering technique finite element analysis (FEA), to deduce how skeletons ...

Abrupt shifts in the evolution of animals -- short periods of time when an organism rapidly changes size or form -- have long been a challenge for theorists including Darwin. Now a newly published ...

Although angiosperms exhibit a wide range of variability in floral traits such as shape and size, flower color is a hallmark of angiosperm diversity. Since before Darwin's time, flower color has long ...

In certain places around the world – in the Badlands near Drumheller in Alberta, Canada, in the Geulhemmergroeve tunnels in the Netherlands, or in the Hell Creek formation in eastern Montana – you can ...

Diet is commonly assumed to affect the evolution of species, but few studies have directly tested its effect at macroevolutionary scales. Here we use Bayesian models of trait-dependent diversification ...

Developmental plasticity has been proposed to facilitate phenotypic diversification in plants and animals, but the macroevolutionary potential of plastic traits remains to be objectively tested. We ...