Showing posts with label Journal: Current Biology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Journal: Current Biology. Show all posts
Friday, April 25, 2025

[PaleoEntomology • 2025] Vulcanidris cratensis • A Hell Ant (Formicidae: Haidomyrmecinae) from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil

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    Vulcanidris cratensis   Lepeco, Brandão & Camacho,    in  Lepeco, Meira, Matielo, Brandão  et  Camacho, 2025. DOI:  doi.org/10.1016/...
Monday, November 18, 2024

[Paleontology • 2024] Skiphosoura bavarica • A new and large monofenestratan (Monofenestrata: Pterodactyliformes) reveals the evolutionary transition to the pterodactyloid pterosaurs

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Skiphosoura bavarica   Hone, Fitch, Selzer, Lauer & Lauer, 2024 DOI:  doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.10.023  Artwork by Gabriel Ugueto.   Hi...
Sunday, October 6, 2024

[Paleontology • 2024] Hand and Foot Morphology Maps Invasion of Terrestrial Environments by Pterosaurs in the mid-Mesozoic

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  Scaphognathus crassirostris  (Goldfuss, 1831)  in  Smyth, Breithaupt, Butler, Falkingham  et  Unwin, 2024.  DOI:  10.1016/j.cub.2024.09.01...
Thursday, September 12, 2024

[PaleoOrnithology • 2024] Direct Evidence of Frugivory in the Mesozoic Bird Longipteryx contradicts Morphological Proxies for Diet

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 Longipteryx , a fossil bird with unusually strong teeth right at the tip of its beak. in O’Connor, Clark, Herrera, Yang, Wang, Zheng, Hu et...
Monday, August 26, 2024

[Herpetology • 2024] Evolutionary Bursts drive Morphological novelty in the World’s Largest Skinks

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in  Brennan, Chapple, Keogh ...   et  Donnellan, 2024. DOI:  10.1016/j.cub.2024.07.039     x.com/ Ian_G_Brennan Highlights:  • A new and rel...
Sunday, June 23, 2024

[Paleontology • 2024] Oldest southern Sauropterygian reveals early Marine Reptile Globalization

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  Morphology and biogeographic context of   GNS CD 540,  the oldest Southern Hemisphere sauropterygian. in  Kear, Roberts, Young, Terezow, M...
Saturday, May 25, 2024

[Ichthyology • 2024] Synergistic Innovations enabled the Radiation of Anglerfishes (Lophiiformes) in the Deep Open Ocean

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    in  Brownstein, Zapfe, Lott, Harrington, Ghezelayagh, Dornburg et  Near, 2024.  DOI:  10.1016/j.cub.2024.04.066     x.com/ ChaseBrownste...
Thursday, May 16, 2024

[Paleontology • 2024] Early Jurassic Origin of Avian Endothermy and Thermophysiological Diversity in Dinosaurs

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 a  dromaeosaur    in the snow .  in  Chiarenza, Cantalapiedra, Jones, Gamboa, Galván,  Farnsworth, Valdes, Sotelo et  Varela, 2024. DOI:  1...
Thursday, March 21, 2024

[Botany • 2024] Solenangis impraedicta (Orchidaceae) • A New orchid Species expands Darwin’s predicted pollination guild in Madagascar

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Solenangis impraedicta  Stévart, Farminhão, Savignac, Verlynde & Ramand., in Farminhão, Savignac, Droissart, Lowry, Rajaonarivelo, Rama...
Tuesday, December 5, 2023

[PaleoEntomology • 2023] Libanoculex intermedius • The Earliest Fossil Mosquito: A New Genus and Species (Diptera, Culicidae) from the lower Cretaceous Lebanese Amber

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Libanoculex intermedius Azar, Nel, Huang & Engel, 2023     DOI:  10.1016/j.cub.2023.10.047   Highlights:  • Earliest-diverging lineage a...
Monday, November 13, 2023

[PaleoMammalogy • 2023] Vielasia sigei • A 50-million-year-old, three-dimensionally preserved Bat Skull supports an early Origin for Modern Echolocation

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Vielasia sigei Hand, Maugoust, Beck & Orliac, 2023 DOI:  10.1016/j.cub.2023.09.043   Highlights • A new bat species is described from a ...