New Zealand has long been a conundrum to biogeographers, possessing as it does
geophysical and biotic features characteristic of both an island and a continent. This schism …

Complex structures with significant biological function can arise multiple times in evolution
by common gene patterning and developmental pathways. The mammalian middle ear, with …

The Waipounamu Erosion Surface is a time-transgressive, nearly planar, wave-cut surface. It
is not a peneplain. Formation of the Waipounamu Erosion Surface began in Late …

The fossil record of mammaliaforms (mammals and their closest relatives) of the Mesozoic
era from the southern supercontinent Gondwana is far less extensive than that from its …

The diverse scincid lizard fauna of the largely submerged subcontinent of Zealandia (which
incorporates New Zealand, New Caledonia, Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island, and the …

New Zealand biogeography has been dominated by the knowledge that its geophysical
history is continental in nature. The continental crust (Zealandia) from which New Zealand is …

Over the last decade, molecular studies carried out on the Australasian biota have revealed
a new world of organic structure that exists from submicroscopic to continental scale …

For tens of millions of years the ratite moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes) were the largest
herbivores in New Zealand's terrestrial ecosystems. In occupying this ecological niche for …

Background We describe new cranial and post-cranial marsupial fossils from the early
Eocene Tingamarra Local Fauna in Australia and refer them to Djarthia murgonensis, which …

Jaws and dentition closely resembling those of the extant tuatara (Sphenodon) are
described from the Manuherikia Group (Early Miocene; 19–16 million years ago, Mya) of …