I have a note under this family: "Has priority over Sminthidae under Art. 40.2 of the Code, because Allen (1901) replaced Sminthinae with Sicistinae when he recognized Sminthus as a junior synonym of ...

Stegodons are a commonly recovered extinct proboscidean (elephants and allies) from the Pleistocene record of Southeast Asian oceanic islands. Estimates on when stegodons arrived on individual islands ...

Convergent evolution, often observed in island archipelagos, provides compelling evidence for the importance of natural selection as a generator of species and ecological diversity. The ...

Look for the fossil of an extinct giant ratEast TimorAustralian archaeologists and paleontologists who had been visiting the cave of India drew something like a human facePetroglyph(Rock surface ...

During the Late Cretaceous, a shallow epicontinental sea dotted with variously sized islands covered most of what is now Europe (Fig. 1). This topography reflected complex tectonic activities along ...

Dear Higgs boson: we are getting closer. A Higgs between the masses of 158 and 175 gigaelectronvolts has been ruled out with 95 per cent certainty, according to data from the Tevatron collider ...

Archaeological research in East Timor has unearthed the bones of the biggest rat that ever lived, with a body weight around six kilograms. Today's biggest rats weigh around two kilograms and live in ...