June 2018

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Climate change-related threats to the Sicilian pond turtle

Adapted from Fig 1: Predicted habitat suitability for Emys trinacris

June 5, 2018

Climate change-related threats to the Sicilian pond turtle

The pond turtle Emys trinacris is an endangered endemic species of Sicily. In this study, researchers modelled the potential distribution of the species under current and future climatic conditions.

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June 6, 2018
Quantitative histological models suggest endothermy in plesiosaurs
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4955 PubMed 29892509
June 27, 2018
Osteohistology of Late Triassic prozostrodontian cynodonts from Brazil
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5029 PubMed 29967724
June 1, 2018
Cranial anatomy of Bellusaurus sui (Dinosauria: Eusauropoda) from the Middle-Late Jurassic Shishugou Formation of northwest China and a review of sauropod cranial ontogeny
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4881 PubMed 29868283
June 20, 2018
Plant-insect interactions patterns in three European paleoforests of the late-Neogene—early-Quaternary
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5075 PubMed 29942705
June 8, 2018
Gorgonopsian therapsids (Nochnitsa gen. nov. and Viatkogorgon) from the Permian Kotelnich locality of Russia
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4954 PubMed 29900078
June 20, 2018
Cranial morphology of Sinovenator changii (Theropoda: Troodontidae) on the new material from the Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, China
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4977 PubMed 29942679
June 8, 2018
A new therocephalian (Gorynychus masyutinae gen. et sp. nov.) from the Permian Kotelnich locality, Kirov Region, Russia
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4933 PubMed 29900076
June 25, 2018
Systematics and phylogeny of the Zygodactylidae (Aves, Neognathae) with description of a new species from the early Eocene of Wyoming, USA
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4950 PubMed 29967716
June 29, 2018
Wolf spider burrows from a modern saline sandflat in central Argentina: morphology, taphonomy and clues for recognition of fossil examples
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5054 PubMed 29967732
June 26, 2018
A new species of Middle Miocene baleen whale from the Nupinai Group, Hikatagawa Formation of Hokkaido, Japan
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4934 PubMed 29967715
June 27, 2018
A new species of the deep-bodied actinopterygian Dapedium from the Middle Jurassic (Aalenian) of southwestern Germany
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5033 PubMed 29967726
June 19, 2018
Allometric shell growth in infaunal burrowing bivalves: examples of the archiheterodonts Claibornicardia paleopatagonica (Ihering, 1903) and Crassatella kokeni Ihering, 1899
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5051 PubMed 29942699
June 12, 2018
Biomechanical evidence suggests extensive eggshell thinning during incubation in the Sanagasta titanosaur dinosaurs
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4971 PubMed 29910984
June 11, 2018
Trace fossils on dinosaur bones reveal ecosystem dynamics along the coast of eastern North America during the latest Cretaceous
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4973 PubMed 29910985
June 22, 2018
A Miocene pygmy right whale fossil from Australia
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5025 PubMed 29942692
June 8, 2018
The first tetrapod from the mid-Miocene Clarkia lagerstätte (Idaho, USA)
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4880 PubMed 29900070
June 29, 2018
­Morphological variations in the dorsal fin finlets of extant polypterids raise questions about their taxonomical validity
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5083 PubMed 30042877
Climate change-related threats to the Sicilian pond turtle

Adapted from Fig 1: Predicted habitat suitability for Emys trinacris

June 5, 2018

Climate change-related threats to the Sicilian pond turtle

The pond turtle Emys trinacris is an endangered endemic species of Sicily. In this study, researchers modelled the potential distribution of the species under current and future climatic conditions.

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