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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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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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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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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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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Environmental Research Letters, 2020 ExxonMobil Corp Vice President Vijay Swarup’s criticisms of our 2017 study (2017 Environ. Res. Lett. 12 084019), which demonstrated that ExxonMobil misled the public about climate change, are misleading and incorrect.
Geoffrey Supran, Naomi Oreskes
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The History of Dengue Outbreaks in the Americas [PDF]
The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2012 Dengue is a viral disease usually transmitted by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Dengue outbreaks in the Americas reported in medical literature and to the Pan American Health Organization are described. The outbreak history from 1600 to 2010 was categorized into four phases: Introduction of dengue in the Americas (1600–1946); Continental plan for the ...
Olivia, Brathwaite Dick +5 more
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Phylogeny and divergence time estimation of Io moths and relatives (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae: Automeris) [PDF]
PeerJThe saturniid moth genus Automeris includes 145 described species. Their geographic distribution ranges from the eastern half of North America to as far south as Peru. Automeris moths are cryptically colored, with forewings that resemble dead leaves, and
Chelsea Skojec +4 more
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