Birds are one of the most recognizable and diverse groups of modern vertebrates. Over the
past two decades, a wealth of new fossil discoveries and phylogenetic and …

Review of sea-level changes during the big five mass extinctions and several lesser
extinction events reveals that the majority coincide with large eustatic inflexions. The degree …

The temporal link between large igneous province (LIP) eruptions and at least half of the
major extinctions of the Phanerozoic implies that large scale volcanism is the main driver of …

The Chicxulub asteroid impact (Mexico) and the eruption of the massive Deccan volcanic
province (India) are two proposed causes of the end-Cretaceous mass extinction, which …

The first book to review all the evidence concerning both the dinosaur extinctions and all the
other major extinctions-of plant, animal, terrestrial, and marine life-in the history of life. All the …

Vertebrate palaeontology is a lively field, with new discoveries reported every week... and
not only dinosaurs! This new edition reflects the international scope of vertebrate …

Although evidence for land vegetation comes from the Silurian, and maybe even earlier, the
first record of fossil charcoal (fusain) is from the late Devonian. For this period there are only …

Abstract The Cretaceous–Palaeogene (K–Pg) mass extinction is linked to the rapid
emergence of ecologically divergent higher taxa (for example, families and orders) across …

The human race faces many global to local challenges in the near future. Among these are
massive biodiversity losses. The 2012 IUCN/SSC Red List reported evaluations of~ 56% of …

Planktic microfossils arguably provide the most complete (stratigraphic and taxonomic)
record of biodiversity of any group of organisms. The phytoplankton record is of particular …