The Vibrionaceae encompasses a cosmopolitan group that is mostly aquatic and possesses
tremendous metabolic and genetic diversity. Given the importance of this taxon, it deserves …

Palaeontologists have long sought to explain the diversification of individual clades to whole
biotas at global scales. Advances in our understanding of the spatial distribution of the fossil …

Fractal-like, intricate morphologies are known to exhibit beneficial mechanical behavior in
various engineering and technological domains. The evolution of fractal-like, internal walls …

Snails are model organisms for studying the genetic, molecular, and developmental bases
of left–right asymmetry in Bilateria. However, the development of their typical helicospiral …

Orthoconic cephalopods are subordinate, but persistent, widespread and regionally
abundant components of Triassic marine ecosystems. Here, we describe unpublished …

Nipponites is a heteromorph ammonoid with a complex and unique morphology that
obscures its mode of life and ethology. The seemingly aberrant shell of this Late Cretaceous …

Measuring locomotion tactics available to ancient sea animals can link functional
morphology with evolution and ecology over geologic timescales. Externally-shelled …

Especially in Lagerstätten with exceptionally preserved fossils, we can sometimes recognize
fossilized remains of meals of animals. We suggest the term leftover fall for the event and the …

Extant cephalopod soft tissues are commonly infested by various lineages of parasites
making it plausible that extinct cephalopods also had a variety of parasites. Direct evidence …

Ammonoids are extinct cephalopods with external shells which predominated in many late
Paleozoic and Mesozoic marine ecosystems. Stable isotope data from ammonoid shells …