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Pliocene fossils support a New Zealand origin for the smallest extant penguins

Journal of Paleontology, 2023
AbstractA late Pliocene (3.36–3.06 Ma) exposure of the Tangahoe Formation on the North Island of New Zealand preserves close fossil relatives of many extant seabird clades. Here, we report an extinct member of the little penguin (Eudyptula Bonaparte, 1856) lineage from the Tangahoe Formation—the smallest extinct crown penguin yet known.
Thomas, Daniel B, Tennyson, Alan J D, Marx, Felix G, Ksepka, Daniel T   +3 more
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Holocene vegetation dynamics of Grande Terre (Kerguelen Islands) inferred from sedimentary ancient DNA

Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While the Antarctic region has experienced significant climatic changes over the Holocene, few high‐resolution records have examined their effects on the local biota. In order to understand past ecological shifts and forecast future changes, it is important to obtain high‐resolution palaeoecological records from this region.
Xaali O'Reilly‐Berkeley, Aloïs Revéret, Youri Lammers, Maaike Zwier, Anne E. Bjune, Fabien Arnaud, Jostein Bakke, Sandra Nogué, Inger G. Alsos   +8 more
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Syrinx anatomy and vocalizations in New World vultures (Aves: Cathartidae): Implications for avian vocal evolution

Journal of Anatomy, EarlyView.
New World vultures are the only avian clade proposed to lack a syrinx and have been described as non‐vocal. Using dissection, diceCT, and histology, we demonstrate that cathartid vultures have novel syringeal features that form a syrinx and vocal characterization reveals that they produce more complex vocalizations than previously reported.
Bradley A. Ibarra, Carmen A. Urban, Lucas J. Legendre, Julia A. Clarke   +3 more
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Bill disparity and feeding strategies among fossil and modern penguins [PDF]

Paleobiology, 2020
Abstract One of the most remarkable differences between Paleogene penguins and their living relatives is the shape and length of their beaks. Many of the Eocene and Oligocene penguins have a thin and elongated spear-like bill, which contrasts with the proportionally shorter and more robust bill of most living ...
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‘Chrystalline Talk’: Thomas Browne's Poetics of Concretion and Mineral Plain Style

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article charts the figuration, both material and rhetorical, of mineral bodies in early modern natural philosophy, paying particular attention to the second book of Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646). It argues that concretions (stony calculi and crystals formed through the aggregation of physical matter) make manifest a mineral
Jess Dunmore
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Air–Water Greenhouse Gases Exchange in Surface Waters of Deception Island (South Shetland Archipelago, Antarctica): Assessment of Drivers of Spatial Variability

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, Volume 131, Issue 10, October 2026.
Abstract Greenhouse gases (GHGs) such as Carbon Dioxide (CO2), Methane (CH4), and Nitrous Oxide (N2O) play critical roles in global climate change. CO2 dominates due to its high concentration and long atmospheric lifetime, while CH4 and N2O also exert strong heat‐trapping effects despite shorter residence times. Deception Island, in the Southern Ocean,
S. Amaya‐Vías, A. Brusselman, B. Delille, M. de la Paz, M. Díez‐Minguito, S. Flecha, O. Belyaev, G. Navarro, A. Tovar‐Sánchez, I. E. Huertas   +9 more
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Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950

Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 859-869, October 2026.
ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
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Hierarchical Assembly as a Design Principle: Structure–Property Relationships Linking Biological Architectures to Functional Aggregate Materials

Aggregate, Volume 7, Issue 9, September 2026.
Biological function arises from aggregates rather than from molecules. Comparing biomimetic systems on a common basis reveals three transferable design rules governing hierarchical assembly, interfacial gradients, and stimulus‐coupled anisotropy, and identifies self‐healing and single‐step multiscale integration as properties that do not transfer to ...
Nafeesa Sarfraz, Sadaf Bibi, Muhammad Ibrar Ahmed, Jawad Hussain, Shahid Iqbal, Imran Mahmood Khan, Ajayan Vinu, Ibrahim Khan   +7 more
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Australian fossil penguins, with remarks on penguin evolution and distribution

, 1957
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
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Low Nest Success of Black‐Legged Kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla) at a Mainland Colony Is Not Associated With Disturbance From Walkers or Boats: Implications for Compensation for Offshore Renewables Impacts

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 9, September 2026.
Offshore wind energy is rapidly expanding in the North sea foraging grounds of internationally important seabirds, with predicted impacts on their survival and productivity. Since reduction to breeding colony disturbance is a proposed compensation measure for these impacts, we used a seven‐year dataset of > 1400 black‐legged kittiwake nests at an ...
Patrick J. C. White, Hannah Humphreys, Jill M. Grozier, Jenna R. Lane, Alexander M. Willey, Annalise Bokenkamp, Nils H. Schoefer, Sophie J. Wilson, Ross J. Rutherford, Liza Cole, Ciaran Hatsell, Rachel Bonnici, Ellie Owen, Michelle Frost, Sue Lewis, Karen Diele   +15 more
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