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Marine sediments track the spread of early land plants - Nature Ecology & Evolution
7+ hour, 21+ min ago (65+ words) Marine sediments track the spread of early land plants'Nature Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date…...
Field in the frame: fossilised Ediacaran faunal diversity - Communications Earth & Environment
8+ hour, 17+ min ago (347+ words) Fluctuations in the Earth's magnetic field across time may have had wide-ranging impacts on ecosystems. Dr Tarduno and colleagues used paleomagnetic data from silicate crystals to examine the Ediacaran period. Crystal data indicated that Earth's magnetic field had decreased in…...
Carbon/phosphorus burial ratio reveals a rapid spread of land plants during the Late Ordovician - Nature Ecology & Evolution
12+ hour, 41+ min ago (1729+ words) Nature Ecology & Evolution (2026)Cite this article Beerling, D. J. & Butterfield, N. J. in Fundamentals of Geobiology (eds Knoll, A. H. et al.) Ch. 11 (Blackwell, 2012). Algeo, T. J., Berner, R. A., Maynard, J. B. & Scheckler, S. E. Late Devonian oceanic anoxic events and biotic crises: "rooted" in the evolution of vascular land plants?. GSA Today…...
Reappraisal of the extinct barbelthroat shark †Bavariscyllium and the nebulous origin of carcharhiniform galeomorphs - Communications Biology
1+ week, 4+ hour ago (1627+ words) A, F JME SOS 4124 (holotype) from the lower Tithonian of Eichst'tt; B, G SMF P 272 from the lower Tithonian of Eichst'tt; C, H SNSB-BSPG 1878 IV 6 from the lower Tithonian of Solnhofen; D, I LF 1436 from the lower Tithonian of Eichst'tt;…...
Large-scale environmental DNA survey reveals niche axes of a regional coastal fish community - Scientific Reports
1+ week, 1+ day ago (1600+ words) The concept of the ecological niche, defined as the basic habitat requirements for a species, is central to understanding species geographic distributions and predicting their responses to environmental change. However, identifying the essential niche for large regional communities remains a…...
About the editors | Plastids: from Phylogeny to Physiology
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About this collection | Plastids: from Phylogeny to Physiology
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The billion-dollar case for sustaining palaeontology’s digital databases - Nature Ecology & Evolution
1+ week, 6+ day ago (1714+ words) Nature Ecology & Evolution (2026)Cite this article We present here a series of actionable recommendations to address the existing structural and community challenges within the palaeontological and Earth science data landscape (Table 2). To address data fragmentation and structural redundancy in databasing…...
Cellular-level preservation of cutaneous spikes in an Early Cretaceous iguanodontian dinosaur - Nature Ecology & Evolution
2+ week, 4+ day ago (1381+ words) Nature Ecology & Evolution (2026)Cite this article All data generated or analysed during this study are included in this published article and its Supplementary Information. These data are also available from the corresponding author. Bell, P. R. Standardized terminology and potential taxonomic utility…...
Publisher Correction: A domed pachycephalosaur from the early Cretaceous of Mongolia
3+ week, 3+ day ago (102+ words) The Original Article was published on 17 September 2025 Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA Paleontology, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, NC, USA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada…...