It has been argued by some neozoologists (those who study living animals) that the
palaeozoological record is biased and incomplete (relative to an existing biological …

With its iconic appearance and historic popular appeal, the giraffe is the world's tallest living
terrestrial animal and the largest ruminant. Recent years have seen much-needed new …

The reconstruction of life history traits, such as growth rate, age at maturity and age at death
can be estimated from the histological analysis of long bones. Here, we studied 20 long …

Abstract The La Venta fauna of Colombia (∼ 13.5–11.5 Ma) represents the most diverse
Tertiary locality in the neotropics, with 75 mammal species and a highly non-analogue …

An in-depth study of the Early Pleistocene European remains of Hippopotamus has allowed
the first detailed description of the incidence and types of dental alterations related to …

The past 5 million years mark a global change from the warmer, more stable climate of the
Pliocene to the initiation of glacial–interglacial cycles during the Pleistocene. Marine core …

We studied the relationship between the macroscopic appearance of hypoplastic defects in
the dental enamel of wild boar and domestic pigs, and microstructural enamel changes, at …

Objectives Among low‐latitude apes, developmental defects of enamel often recur twice
yearly, linkable to environmental cycles. Surprisingly, teeth of Homo naledi from Rising Star …

Based on the previously established periodicity of enamel growth marks, we reconstructed
crown growth parameters of mandibular second molars from two wild boar and two domestic …

The dietary preference of Sivatherium hendeyi (Harris, 1976), an extinct giraffid from the
early Pliocene of South Africa, was investigated by applying three dietary reconstruction …