Mesquite bugs, other insects, and a bat in the diet of pallid bats in southeastern Arizona [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 The pallid bat (Antrozous pallidus) is a species of western North America, inhabiting ecoregions ranging from desert to oak and pine forest. They are primarily insectivorous predators on large arthropods that occasionally take small vertebrate prey, and ...
Nicholas J. Czaplewski +2 more
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New fossil lizard specimens from a poorly-known squamate assemblage in the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) San Juan Basin, New Mexico, USA [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Recent collection efforts in the upper Campanian (∼76-73.5 Ma) Fruitland and Kirtland formations of northwestern New Mexico have significantly increased the taxonomic diversity of lizards in this historically poorly understood squamate assemblage.
C. Henrik Woolley +2 more
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Response to “An exceptionally preserved 110 million years old praying mantis provides new insights into the predatory behaviour of early mantodeans” [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 Hörnig, Haug & Haug (2017) published a description of a new specimen of Santanmantis axelrodi MB.I.2068, an extinct species of praying mantis from the Crato Formation of Brazil.
Sydney K. Brannoch, Gavin J. Svenson
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The quality of the fossil record across higher taxa: compositional fidelity of phyla and classes in benthic marine associations [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 Although the fossil record preserves a wealth of historical data about past ecosystems, the current paradigm, which postulates that fossils provide faithful archives of ecological information, stems from research primarily focused on a single group of ...
Carrie Tyler, Michał Kowalewski
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Arktocara yakataga, a new fossil odontocete (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Oligocene of Alaska and the antiquity of Platanistoidea [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 The diversification of crown cetacean lineages (i.e., crown Odontoceti and crown Mysticeti) occurred throughout the Oligocene, but it remains an ongoing challenge to resolve the phylogenetic pattern of their origins, especially with respect to stem ...
Alexandra T. Boersma +1 more
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Maxent-directed field surveys identify new populations of narrowly endemic habitat specialists [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 Background Rare or narrowly endemic organisms are difficult to monitor and conserve when their total distribution and habitat preferences are incompletely known.
Cody M. Rhoden +2 more
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The evolutionary history of dogs in the Americas [PDF]
Science, 2018 Lineage losses for man's best friendDogs have been present in North America for at least 9000 years. To better understand how present-day breeds and populations reflect their introduction to the New World, Ní Leathlobhairet al.sequenced the mitochondrial and nuclear genomes of ancient dogs (see the Perspective by Goodman and Karlsson). The earliest New
Ní Leathlobhair, Máire +49 more
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Spider crabs of the Western Atlantic with special reference to fossil and some modern Mithracidae [PDF]
PeerJ, 2015 Spider crabs (Majoidea) are well-known from modern oceans and are also common in the western part of the Atlantic Ocean. When spider crabs appeared in the Western Atlantic in deep time, and when they became diverse, hinges on their fossil record.
Adiël A. Klompmaker +4 more
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Environmental Research Letters, 2020 In our 2017 study ‘Assessing ExxonMobil’s climate change communications (1977–2014)’, we concluded that ExxonMobil has in the past misled the public about climate change. We demonstrated that ExxonMobil ‘advertorials’—paid, editorial-style advertisements—
Geoffrey Supran, Naomi Oreskes
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Hydrological and lock operation conditions associated with paddlefish and bigheaded carp dam passage on a large and small scale in the Upper Mississippi River (Pools 14–18) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 Movement and dispersal of migratory fish species is an important life-history characteristics that can be impeded by navigation dams. Although habitat fragmentation may be detrimental to native fish species, it might act as an effective and economical ...
Dominique D. Turney +5 more
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