Faunal turnover in Indo-Australia across Wallace's Line is one of the most recognizable
patterns in biogeography and has catalyzed debate about the role of evolutionary and …

Scincidae is one of the most species-rich and cosmopolitan clades of squamate reptiles.
Abundant disarticulated fossil material has also been attributed to this group, however, no …

Based on the known fossil record, the majority of crocodylians from the Cenozoic Era of
Australia are referred to the extinct clade Mekosuchinae. The only extant crocodylians in …

Crocodyliform palaeontology in Australasia has a productive research record that began in
the late nineteenth century and continues today. In this study, we summarize the current …

Animal phenotypes evolve and diverge as a result of differing selective pressures and drift.
These processes leave unique signatures in patterns of trait evolution, impacting the tempo …

There are more species of lizards and snakes (squamates) alive today than any other order
of land vertebrates, yet their fossil record has been poorly documented compared with other …

The modern classification of skinks is based on a nomenclature that dates to the 1970s.
However, there are a number of earlier names in the family group that have been …

ABSTRACT The Australian pre-Pleistocene fossil record of Accipitridae (eagles, hawks, old-
world vultures) comprises one latest Oligocene or early Miocene and one middle Miocene …

For most of the past 300 million years, the world's continents were interlinked as the
supercontinents Pangaea and then Gondwana. Around 50 million years ago, Australia tore …

Animals come in all shapes and sizes. From mundane to bizarre, their features are the result
of millions of years of evolution and mutation accumulating differences and adjusting …