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    Palaeohistology reveals a slow pace of life for the dwarfed Sicilian elephant

    The 1-m-tall dwarf elephant Palaeoloxodon falconeri from the Pleistocene of Sicily (Italy) is an extreme example of insular dwarfism and epitomizes the Island Rule. Based on scaling of life-history (LH) traits wi...

    Meike Köhler, Victoria Herridge, Carmen Nacarino-Meneses… in Scientific Reports (2021)

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    Differences in femoral morphology between sheep (Ovis aries) and goat (Capra hircus): macroscopic and microscopic observations

    It is often difficult, if not impossible, to separate postcranial elements of species, such as sheep and goats. Distinguishing between the skeletal remains of these species is important in a variety of scienti...

    Marco Zedda, Maria Rita Palombo, Desiré Brits, Marcella Carcupino… in Zoomorphology (2017)

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    How did environmental disturbances affect carnivoran diversity? A case study of the Plio–Pleistocene Carnivora of the North-Western Mediterranean

    The Plio–Pleistocene carnivores from the North-Western Mediterranean (Iberian and Italian peninsulas, and France) are analysed in order to investigate whether their diversity over the last 5.3 Ma was influence...

    Maria Rita Palombo, Maria Teresa Alberdi, Beatriz Azanza… in Evolutionary Ecology (2009)