The origins of mammalian biodiversity in the New World tropics extend back> 25 million
years, represented by clades that were originally endemic to South America, North America …

The word armadillo is Spanish for “little armored one.” This midsize mammal that looks like a
walking tank is a source of fascination for many people but a mystery to almost all. Dating …

Forgotten Grasslands of the South is a literary and scientific case study of some of the
biologically richest and most endangered ecosystems in North America. Eminent ecologist …

Physical and biological evidence supports the probable existence of an enclave of relatively
warm climate located between the Southern Appalachian Mountains and the Atlantic Ocean …

Michael O. Woodburne1,* Alberto L. Cione2,**, and Eduardo P. Tonni2,*** abstraCt the age
and phyletic context of mammals that dispersed between north and south america during the …

Aim This paper investigates the prehistoric introduction of five mammalian taxa to Carriacou
(Lesser Antilles) and refines the known anthropogenic ranges for these fauna in the pre …

Apex predators play an important role in the top-down regulation of ecological communities.
Their hunting and feeding behaviors influence, respectively, prey demography and the …

Despite the fact that fossil crocodylians have been recovered from the Panama Canal Zone
starting with initial excavations in 1912, detailed studies have been lacking. Recent …

Fossils of proboscideans from Central America are assigned to four genera:
Gomphotherium, Cuvieronius, Mammut and Mammuthus. Previous reports of …

Abstract The lLate Miocene Chagres Formation from northern Panama contains the
youngest outcrops of the Panama Canal Basin. Here we report two chondrichthyan …