The accumulation of large datasets and increasing data availability have led to the
emergence of data-driven paleontological studies, which reveal an unprecedented picture of …

Climatic and environmental conditions play a pivotal role in the evolution of the biosphere,
serving as the primary natural factors influencing biological evolution and the development …

Since the split of the coelacanth lineage from other osteichthyans 420 million years ago, the
morphological disparity of this clade has remained remarkably stable. Only few outliers with …

We challenge the prevailing view that the end‐Permian extinction impeded the Triassic
evolution of sponges. Here, we report a deep‐water community dominated by abundant …

Morphological disparity and taxonomic diversity are distinct measures of biodiversity,
typically expected to evolve synergistically. However, evidence from mass extinctions …

Abstract The Early Triassic after the end-Permian mass extinction was a time of repeated
environmental degradation, which delayed biotic recovery. Although repeated volcanic …

According to the recent global mean surface temperature curve [1], the temperature
continued to rise over a period of 45 million years at the end of the Paleozoic. The global …

Extinction selectivity determines the direction of macroevolution, especially during mass
extinction; however, its driving mechanisms remain poorly understood. By investigating the …

Around the middle of the nineteenth century, Italian palaeontologists began to investigate
fossils of fishes and reptiles from the Middle Triassic outcrops in the vicinity of Monte San …

Vertebrate and invertebrate fossils from the Smithian (Early Triassic) to the Early-Middle
Triassic boundary interval of Svalbard, Arctic Norway have been known for a long time, but …