The pardel lynx Lynx pardinus is today restricted to small populations living in southern
Iberian Peninsula. However, this endangered species was widely spread throughout Iberia …

Carnivores (cats, dogs and kin) are a diverse group of mammals that inhabit a remarkable
range of ecological niches. While the relationship between ecology and morphology has …

Pinnipeds (seals and related species) use their whiskers to explore their environment and
locate their prey. Today they live mostly in marine habitats and are adapted for a highly …

Landmark‐based 3D geometric morphometrics has rarely been employed to understand the
relationship between endocranial shape, phylogeny and ecology. The goal of this study is to …

Objectives We present two new automatic tools, developed under the R environment, to
reproduce the internal and external structures of bony elements. The first method, Computer …

The range of cranial morphology seen in domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) is a direct
result of thousands of years of selective breeding. This article is the first to investigate how …

The order Carnivora is one of the most speciose mammalian groups with over 280 living
species and well over 1000 known extinct species. Here we present an overview of the …

A diverse fossil record of Cervidae (Mammalia) has been documented in the South
American Pleistocene, when these animals arrived during the Great American Biotic …

Cranial remains of juvenile fossil rhinoceroses are rarely described in literature and very few
is known about the ontogenetic development of their inner anatomy. In this study, we report …

In this study, we report for the first time the presence of Cuon alpinus from the Late
Pleistocene site of Ingarano (Foggia, southern Italy), represented by an right upper first …