4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (71+ words) As the most diverse class of animals, insects have dominated terrestrial ecosystems for the past 320 million years. However, the origins of this successful group have faded into the abysses of geological time. A collection of fossils reveals the unusual body…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (954+ words) Observers had collected 16 parameters (including volume, 3 angles, 8 linears, 3 ratios and 1 numerical count) and some of their corresponding ratios from each sample. Comparisons of sexual dimorphism and age-related morphometrics were conducted subsequently after obtaining the required data. In the comparisons of…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (747+ words) For more than a century, Egypt’s Bahariya Oasis has yielded spectacular fossils that have helped shape scientific understanding of Africa’s prehistoric past. Best known as the “land of Spinosaurus”, the Cretaceous formation has revealed giant dinosaurs, fossil fishes and crocodyliforms…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (1610+ words) Using all publicly available and some new short-read datasets for A. montana and related species, which differ in size, original project and physical source material, we seek to answer three questions: How does the PlastidPipeline facilitate the production and analysis of…...