The Antarctic Peninsula is experiencing one of the fastest rates of regional climate change
on Earth, resulting in the collapse of ice shelves, the retreat of glaciers and the exposure of …

Paleontological research on predation has been expanding rapidly in scope, methods, and
goals. The growing assortment of research strategies and goals has led to increasing …

This book significantly expands the coverage of this subject given by its predecessor
Biogeography and Plate Tectonics (1987). Global Biogeography traces global changes in …

Morphological (including ultrastructural) and developmental characters utilized in recent
literature are critically reviewed as the basis to reassess the phylogenetic relationships of …

The diversity of venomous organisms and the toxins they produce have been increasingly
investigated, but taxonomic bias remains important. Neogastropods, a group of marine …

Predatory gastropod shell borers occur among the Capulidae, Naticacae, Tonnacea,
Muricacea, and Vayssiereidae. With the exception of boring nudibranchs, all known …

The biomass of marine consumers increased during the Phanerozoic. This is indicated by
the increase in both fleshiness and average size of individuals of dominant organisms …

Mass extinctions are recognized through the study of fossil groups across event horizons,
and from analyses of long-term trends in taxonomic richness and diversity. Both approaches …

Sequence data for two segments of 28S and Histone H3 from 36 gastropod taxa, a chiton,
two bivalves and Nautilus are used to test recently published morphology‐based …

The evolutionary history of drilling predation, despite a long and rich fossil record
(Precambrian–Holocene), contains a 120 my gap (Late Triassic–Early Cretaceous). Drilled …