We define 17 African land mammal ages, or AFLMAs, covering the Cenozoic record of the
Afro-arabian continent, the planet's second largest land mass. While fossiliferous deposits …

Anthropoid primates other than humans show a conspicuously disjunct geographic
distribution today, inhabiting mostly tropical and subtropical parts of Asia, Africa, and Central …

Diurnal light-dark cycle resets the master clock, while timed food intake is another potent
synchronizer of peripheral clocks in mammals. As the largest metabolic organ, the liver …

The persistent debate over the timing of initial Arabia–Eurasia collision has eluded
consensus for decades, with most estimates ranging widely from~ 50 to 10 Ma along both …

We report a new Paleogene primate community discovered in the uppermost part of the
Samlat Formation outcropping on the continental shore of the Rio de Oro, east of the Dakhla …

Abstract From mid-Cretaceous to Early Miocene, Africa was geographically isolated as a
gigantic island, the Island Africa. This considerably impacted local evolution of continental …

Wild silkmoths (Saturniidae) are one of the most emblematic and most studied families of
moths. Yet, the absence of a robust phylogenetic framework based on a comprehensive …

Recent discoveries of older and phylogenetically more primitive basal anthropoids in China
and Myanmar, the eosimiiforms, support the hypothesis that Asia was the place of origins of …

Recent palaeontological field campaigns in the westernmost part of the Sahara (Dakhla
region, Morocco) have resulted in the discovery of a mammal assemblage including …

Although phylogenetic trees imply Asia as the ancestral homeland of the Hystricognathi
clade (Rodentia: Ctenohystrica), curiously the oldest known fossil occurrences of …