Increased attention to species movement in response to environmental change highlights
the need to consider changes in species distributions and altered biological assemblages …

Biological invasions are one of the great threats to Earth's ecosystems and biodiversity in the
Anthropocene. However, species introductions and invasions extend deep into the human …

Turtles of the clade Testudinoidea have a rather scarce fossil record in Afro-Arabia, ranging
from the late Eocene up to the Quaternary. The vast majority of testudinoid fossils from Afro …

Before humans arrived, giant tortoises occurred on many western Indian Ocean islands. We
combined ancient DNA, phylogenetic, ancestral range, and molecular clock analyses with …

The five extinct giant tortoises of the genus Cylindraspis belong to the most iconic species of
the enigmatic fauna of the Mascarene Islands that went largely extinct after the discovery of …

Nanhsiungchelyidae are a group of large turtles that lived in Asia and North America during
the Cretaceous. Here we report a new species of nanhsiungchelyid, Nanhsiungchelys yangi …

Aldabrachelys gigantea (Aldabra giant tortoise) is one of only two giant tortoise species left
in the world and survives as a single wild population of over 100,000 individuals on Aldabra …

ABSTRACT A new fossil tortoise, Chelonoidis dominicensis, is described from a flooded
cave in La Altagracia Province in the southeastern Dominican Republic on the island of …

Manouria oyamai, an extinct, endemic testudinid turtle known from the upper Pleistocene of
the Ryukyu Archipelago, southwestern Japan, has been reviewed on the basis of new …

Historical processes of long-distance migration and ocean-wide expansion feature the
global biogeographic pattern of Rhizophora species. Throughout the Indian Ocean …