Large-scale fluctuations in global climate and resulting changes in ecology had a profound
effect on human evolution and dispersal. Though hominin remains are scarce, studies …

The giant, short-faced hyena Pachycrocuta brevirostris was the largest Hyaenidae ever
existed and the one that perfectly embodied the distinctive bone-cracking adaptations of this …

European continental mammal biochronology has been developed in Italy since the
pioneering work of Augusto Azzaroli. The Villafranchian is a Mammal Age, a …

Abstract The study of European Pleistocene Hippopotamus presents unresolved questions
and a lack of consensus among specialists being matter of hotly debate in the last decades …

Abstract To improve the French Plio-Pleistocene biostratigraphy scheme based on mammal
biozone boundaries or “Mammal Neogene/Quaternary Zones”(MNQ) we collected volcanic …

The dispersal of primitive elephantines and monodactyl equids in Eurasia has long been
regarded as representative of a substantial turnover in mammal faunas, denoting the spread …

This research aims to investigate the relationships between climate change and faunal
dynamics in south-west Europe, disentangling the asynchronous and diachronous dispersal …

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 …

The taxonomy, chronology and dispersal patterns of hippopotamuses in Western Europe are
still a matter of debate, despite the long history of researchers on these topics. In this …

The remains of 12 canid species that date back ca. 4.9 myr have been found at 116
paleontological localities. Among these localities, eight are dated to the Pliocene age, 12 …