Nurture to nature via COVID-19, a self-regenerating environmental strategy of environment in global context

B Paital - Science of the total environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) has become the largest pandemic that has
affected 210 countries. Rolling data indicate that 257, 3605 people are infected by the …

The origin and diversification of birds

SL Brusatte, JK O'Connor, ED Jarvis - Current Biology, 2015 - cell.com
Birds are one of the most recognizable and diverse groups of modern vertebrates. Over the
past two decades, a wealth of new fossil discoveries and phylogenetic and …

On impact and volcanism across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary

PM Hull, A Bornemann, DE Penman, MJ Henehan… - Science, 2020 - science.org
The cause of the end-Cretaceous mass extinction is vigorously debated, owing to the
occurrence of a very large bolide impact and flood basalt volcanism near the boundary …

Timing the evolution of antioxidant enzymes in cyanobacteria

JS Boden, KO Konhauser, LJ Robbins… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The ancestors of cyanobacteria generated Earth's first biogenic molecular oxygen, but how
they dealt with oxidative stress remains unconstrained. Here we investigate when …

Asteroid impact, not volcanism, caused the end-Cretaceous dinosaur extinction

AA Chiarenza, A Farnsworth… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The Cretaceous/Paleogene mass extinction, 66 Ma, included the demise of non-avian
dinosaurs. Intense debate has focused on the relative roles of Deccan volcanism and the …

Vertebrate biodiversity losses point to a sixth mass extinction

ML McCallum - Biodiversity and Conservation, 2015 - Springer
The human race faces many global to local challenges in the near future. Among these are
massive biodiversity losses. The 2012 IUCN/SSC Red List reported evaluations of~ 56% of …

Early evolution of modern birds structured by global forest collapse at the end-Cretaceous mass extinction

DJ Field, A Bercovici, JS Berv, R Dunn, DE Fastovsky… - Current Biology, 2018 - cell.com
The fossil record and recent molecular phylogenies support an extraordinary early-Cenozoic
radiation of crown birds (Neornithes) after the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction …

[PDF][PDF] Does large igneous province volcanism always perturb the mercury cycle? Comparing the records of Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 and the end-Cretaceous to other …

LME Percival, HC Jenkyns, TA Mather… - American Journal of …, 2018 - ajsonline.org
Mercury (Hg) is increasingly being used as a sedimentary tracer of Large Igneous Province
(LIP) volcanism, and supports hypotheses of a coincidence between the formation of several …

Across space and time: A review of sampling, preservational, analytical, and anthropogenic biases in fossil data across macroecological scales

K Nanglu, TM Cullen - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Quantitative studies of fossil data have proven critical to a number of major
macroevolutionary and macroecological discoveries, such as the 'Big 5'mass extinctions of …

[HTML][HTML] Island life in the Cretaceous-faunal composition, biogeography, evolution, and extinction of land-living vertebrates on the Late Cretaceous European …

Z Csiki-Sava, E Buffetaut, A Ősi, X Pereda-Suberbiola… - ZooKeys, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract The Late Cretaceous was a time of tremendous global change, as the final stages
of the Age of Dinosaurs were shaped by climate and sea level fluctuations and witness to …