The current literature on marsupial phylogenetics includes numerous studies based on
analyses of morphological data with limited sampling of Recent and fossil taxa, and many …

Abstract Late Miocene to mid‐Pleistocene sedimentary proxy records reveal that northwest
Australia underwent an abrupt transition from dry to humid climate conditions at 5.5 million …

Abstract The modern Koala Phascolarctos cinereus is the last surviving member of a once
diverse family Phascolarctidae (Marsupialia, Phascolarctomorphia). Nine genera and at …

Since the late Miocene, plants using the C4 photosynthetic pathway have increased to
become major components of many tropical and subtropical ecosystems. However, the …

Tree-kangaroos of the genus Dendrolagus occupy forest habitats of New Guinea and
extreme northeastern Australia, but their evolutionary history is poorly known. Descriptions …

Species of the kangaroo genus Protemnodon were common members of late Cenozoic
communities across Australia and New Guinea until their extinction in the late Pleistocene …

Isotopes in fossil tooth enamel provide robust tools for reconstructing food webs, which have
been understudied in Australian megafauna. To delineate the isotopic composition of …

Differentiating between ancient and younger, more rapidly evolved clades is important for
determining paleoenvironmental drivers of diversification. Australia possesses many aridity …

The Pig-footed Bandicoot, Chaeropus ecaudatus, an extinct arid-adapted bandicoot, was
named in 1838 based on a specimen without a tail from the Murray River in New South …

Identifying what drove the late Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions on the continents
remains one of the most contested topics in historical science. This is especially so in …