Open data sharing democratizes science by making data more equitably available
throughout the world. Furthermore, open data sharing improves the reproducibility and …

The latest Messinian Monticino Quarry fissure fillings, near Brisighella in Italy, are well
known for their diverse mammal fauna. Conversely, little is known about other vertebrates …

Fossil evidence indicates that numerous catarrhine clades of African origin expanded or
shifted their ranges into Eurasia, among them macaques Macaca Lacépède, 1799 …

The evolution of the present-day African savannah fauna has been substantially influenced
by the dispersal of Eurasian ancestors into Africa. The ancestors evolved endemically …

Abstract Background Long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) are an important model
species in biomedical research and reliable knowledge about their evolutionary history is …

The Lago Mare phase at the end of the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC) in the Mediterranean
has long been known for the Paratethyan affinities of its biota. The taxonomic level of these …

Background The evolutionary history of the Old World monkey tribe Papionini comprising the
genera Macaca, Mandrillus, Cercocebus, Lophocebus, Theropithecus, Rungwecebus and …

This study represents the first extensive systematic investigation of the Miocene mammalian
faunas of the Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), stored in the Macedonian Museum of …

Phylogenies with estimates of divergence times are essential for investigating many
evolutionary questions. In principle,“tip-dating” is arguably the most appropriate approach …

Wallace's Line demarcates a biogeographical boundary between the Indomalaya and
Australasian ecoregions. Most placental mammalian genera, for example, occur to the west …