Skeleton shows Mixodectes pungens lived in trees and primarily ate leaves during the Paleocene epoch, highlighting its unique ...

Fossil discoveries provide valuable insights into extinct species, revealing their behaviors, environments, and relationships ...

Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery.

The Triassic is one of the most important periods in the evolution of life on Earth. After one of the greatest mass ...

This is called niche construction — the beaver doesn’t just occupy its ecological niche, it actively constructs it. Beavers may engineer a hollow portion within a dam to use as a lodge or build a ...

The central idea is that each species occupies a unique ecological niche, a distinct functional role within the ecosystem (Darwin 1859). Under this view species richness arises from the actions of ...

Do these species originate and accumulate morphological and ecological differences at a steady rate, or, given vacant niches, do they fill them rapidly? Paleontologists first indicated that a ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. We characterize the realized ecological niches of 133 phytoplankton taxa in the open ocean based on observations from the MAREDAT ...

This is not simply because the organisms that become extinct leave behind empty ecological niches that are filled by creatures from different ancestry than the former inhabitants. Instead ...

This process in which one species gives rise to multiple species that exploit different niches is called adaptive radiation. The ecological niches exert the selection pressures that push the ...

The skin is an ecosystem, with a microscopic flora and fauna and diverse ecological niches: the desert of the forearm, the cool woods of the scalp and the tropical forest of the armpit ...

Dry season finds the Sudd’s white-eared kob in the northern part of their North Dakota-size range, which occupies a critical ecological niche between Africa’s lush tropical forests and its ...