Senckenberg ornithologist Gerald Mayr, in conjunction with his colleague Alan Tennyson of the Te Papa Museum in New Zealand, describe a previously unknown, extinct albatross species from the Pliocene.

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The dynamic interaction between marine sediments and burrowing fauna represents one of the key biogeochemical processes on the Earth 1,2,3,4. Benthic animals facilitate sediment irrigation and oxygen ...

The teeth of a kangaroo and other extinct marsupials reveal that southeastern Queensland 2.5-5-million-years ago was a mosaic of tropical forests, wetlands and grasslands and much less arid than ...

KNOWLEDGE of the history and evolution of the mammalian fauna of Australia was meagre until the recent work of Stirton et al. 1. They located a sequence of faunas in Central Australia, but precise ...

A team of researchers has identified and described Vulcanoscaptor ninoti ("the Camp dels Ninots volcano digger"), a previously unknown genus and species of Pliocene mole. The fossil was unearthed at ...

Nagoya University Furukawa Museum, special report no. 7, issued February 28, 1998. siris_sil_599549 ...

Wankoe Formation, South Africa. Charles Helm, Author provided (no reuse) South Africa is well known for its fossil heritage, a record of plants and animals that tells us what the world was like long ...