Large mammals and trees in eastern monsoonal China: anthropogenic losses since the Late Pleistocene and restoration prospects in the Anthropocene

SN Teng, JC Svenning, C Xu - Biological Reviews, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Massive human‐induced declines of large‐sized animals and trees (megabiota) from the
Late Pleistocene to the Anthropocene have resulted in downsized ecosystems across the …

Ice Age megafauna rock art in the Colombian Amazon?

J Iriarte, MJ Ziegler, AK Outram… - … of the Royal …, 2022‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Megafauna paintings have accompanied the earliest archaeological contexts across the
continents, revealing a fundamental inter-relationship between early humans and …

Femoral specializations to locomotor habits in early archosauriforms

R Pintore, A Houssaye, SJ Nesbitt… - Journal of …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
The evolutionary history of archosaurs and their closest relatives is characterized by a wide
diversity of locomotor modes, which has even been suggested as a pivotal aspect …

Interspecific variation in the limb long bones among modern rhinoceroses—extent and drivers

C Mallet, R Cornette, G Billet, A Houssaye - PeerJ, 2019‏ - peerj.com
Among amniotes, numerous lineages are subject to an evolutionary trend toward body mass
and size increases. Large terrestrial species may face important constraints linked to weight …

Estimation of the forces exerted on the limb long bones of a white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) using musculoskeletal modelling and simulation

C Etienne, A Houssaye, MJ Fagan… - Journal of …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Heavy animals incur large forces on their limb bones, due to the transmission of body weight
and ground reaction forces, and the contractions of the various muscles of the limbs. This is …

Influence of captivity and selection on limb long bone cross‐sectional morphology of reindeer

M Pelletier, S Niinimäki, AK Salmi - Journal of Morphology, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
The emergence of pastoralism and animal husbandry has been a critical point in the history
of human evolution. Beyond profound behavioural changes in domesticated animals …

Shape variation in the limb long bones of modern elephants reveals adaptations to body mass and habitat

C Bader, A Delapré, A Houssaye - Journal of Anatomy, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
During evolution, several vertebrate lineages have shown trends towards an increase in
mass. Such a trend is associated with physiological and musculoskeletal changes …

The Villafranchian perissodactyls of Italy: knowledge of the fossil record and future research perspectives

O Cirilli, L Pandolfi, RL Bernor - Geobios, 2020‏ - Elsevier
The Villafranchian fossil record of Perissodactyla is of a great interest because the
appearance of the genus Equus and disappearance of the genus Tapirus mark important …

Stable isotope signatures and the trophic diversification of akodontine rodents

RV Missagia, BD Patterson, FA Perini - Evolutionary Ecology, 2019‏ - Springer
Stable isotope analyses are frequently used to study trophic interactions, diet, and
community processes, but they have seldom been applied to investigate the trophic niche …

Sagittal crest morphology decoupled from relative bite performance in Pleistocene tapirs (Perissodactyla: Tapiridae)

L Van Linden, K Stoops, LCCS Dumbá… - Integrative …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Bite force is often associated with specific morphological features, such as sagittal crests.
The presence of a pronounced sagittal crest in some tapirs (Perissodactyla: Tapiridae) was …