supported by the German Research Foundation(DFG Ha 6300/6-1)and by the Volkswagen Foundation with a Lichtenberg Professorship to JTH.VB is supported by the Ministry of Science,Innovation and Universities,Spain,within the Ramon y Cajal Program(RYC2021-032144-I).
Dear Editor,The Eocene(ca.56–34 million years ago)has become an important time to study due to the global warming at the time(e.g.,Inglis et al.,2020;Agterhuis et al.,2022;Tierney et al.,2022;Setty et al.,2023),hence...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2023YFF0805800);Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(Nos.XDB31000000 and XDA19050103);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.31900190).
The formation of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has long been debated,despite the various proxies used to estimate its paleoelevation.Here,we introduce a novel method to calibrate paleoelevation by comparing the fossil and...
supported by the Research Council of Norway,through its Centre for Research-based Innovation funding scheme (grant no.309439),and Consortium Partners.
Microfossil classification is an important discipline in subsurface exploration,for both oil&gas and Carbon Capture and Storage(CCS).The abundance and distribution of species found in sedimentary rocks provide valuabl...
An indisputable fact is that human beings originated from Africa,where a nearly complete,but severely deformed fossil human cranium dating back about 7 million years was discovered and named as Sahelanthropus tchadens...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31670212,32060056,and 31300181);the Thousand Talents Program of Jiangxi Province(jxsq2018106032);Jiangxi Provincial Natural Science Foundation,China(ZBG20230418029 and 20232ACB205010).
Pterocarya (Juglandaceae) is disjunctly distributed in East Asia and the Caucasus region today, but its fossils are widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere. We first inferred phylogeny with time estimation of Pt...
Every year, 24 billion m3 of fresh water are thrown into the sea by the Senegal River, while most of the country’s populations do not have permanent access to drinking water. Also, agricultural land, which extends as...
This review offers a comprehensive overview of synthetic fuels as promising alternatives to conventional fossil fuels.The carbon-neutral potential of synthetic fuels when produced using renewable energy and captured C...
Inferring divergence times between lineages is crucial for understanding biological evolutionary processes. The extraordinary species diversity of Eupolypods within the fern lineage has been interpreted as an ecologic...
Fossil remains of snakes in Quaternary localities are most often represented by vertebrae.Therefore,it is necessary to carry out a comparative study of the vertebrae of modern species in the areas of interest to ident...
supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(Grant No.2022YFF0800800);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.42072024&42320104005);the Sino-German(CSC-DAAD)Postdoc Scholarship Program(Grant No.57607866)。
The Eocene-Oligocene transition(EOT)marked a rapid global cooling event,often considered as the beginning of the modern icehouse world.Influenced by various factors,including tectonic activity and paleogeographic sett...