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The coastal Plain of Belgium, Joint product of natural processes and Human Activities
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The More You Search, the More You Find: A New Mediterranean Endemism of the Genus Ocenebra Gray, 1847 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Muricidae) from a Submarine Cave of the Messina Strait Area (Italy)
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Checklist of the fresh and brackish water snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) of Bénin and adjacent West African ecoregions
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A new species of Holothuria (Aspidochitotida, Holothuriidae) from Kenya
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A new species, Holothuria (Mertensiothuria) arenacava (Echinodermata, Holothuroidea) from the littoral waters of Kenya is described. This species is characterized by its sand-burrowing behaviour, its small tentacles, the variously developed tables, corpuscules, buttons, plates and rods in the tube feet, and by the smooth, spiny and knobbed rods in the tentacles.
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Cranial morphology of Khirtharia inflata (Raoellidae, Artiodactyla)
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Raoellidae are extinct small-sized semiaquatic artiodactyls that are the closest relatives to crown clade Cetacea. They display morphological features showing the transition between terrestrial and aquatic lifestyles and therefore bring crucial information to understand the earliest steps of cetacean evolution. Raoellid cranial morphology, including the ear region and endocranial morphology, has been documented using cranial remains referred to Indohyus indirae from the Kalakot area, Jammu and Kashmir in India. The study of these specimens highlighted that several cetacean features are already present in raoellids. The previously available Indohyus material was very deformed, preventing access to quantitative data and leading to potential misinterpretations. We describe new undeformed cranial material from the Kalakot area, documenting another raoellid species, Khirtharia inflata. The new observations allow us to complete our knowledge of raoellid cranial morphology, including the original shape of the cranium and brain endocast and to confirm the specificities of raoellid morphology within Artiodactyla. We further provide the first quantitative data for the different brain components and show that Raoellidae had low encephalization and neocorticalization values, much lower than cetaceans and close to early diverging, primitive, dichobunoid artiodactyls. Reconstruction of the blood sinuses above the cerebellum supports the previous “intraosseous” hypothesis about the initial steps of the development of the caudal venous rete mirabile in cetaceans. The presence of several cetacean cranial features in Raoellidae, such as the peculiar shape of the frontal, the strong postorbital constriction, the periotic involucrum, or the elongation of the olfactory bulbs, questions the definition of the Cetacea clade.
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Crop diversity and choices in the prehistory of South Eastern Europe: the archaeobotanical evidence from Greece and Bulgaria In: Chevalier, A., Marinova, E, Pena-Cocharro, L. (eds.) Plants and People: choices and diversity through time
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A global approach for natural history museum collections
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Integration of the world’s natural history collections can provide a resource for decision-makers Over the past three centuries, people have collected objects and specimens and placed them in natural history museums throughout the world. Taken as a whole, this global collection is the physical basis for our understanding of the natural world and our place in it, an unparalleled source of information that is directly relevant to issues as diverse as wildlife conservation, climate change, pandemic preparedness, food security, invasive species, rare minerals, and the bioeconomy (1). Strategic coordination and use of the global collection has the potential to focus future collecting and guide decisions that are relevant to the future of humanity and biodiversity. To begin to map the aggregate holdings of the global collection, we describe here a simple and fast method to assess the contents of any natural history museum, and report results based on our assessment of 73 of the world’s largest natural history museums and herbaria from 28 countries.
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An early Middle Palaeolithic site at Mesvin IV (Mons, Belgium). Its significance for stratigraphy and palaeontology.
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Bulletin of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences - Earth Sciences.
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Bulletin of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences - Earth Sciences
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Cyprideis (Crustacea, Ostracoda) in Australia
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Preliminary results of the bioarchaeological research at the Neolithic site of Mursalevo (S Bulgaria): evidence on food storage, processing and consumption form the building contexts
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Archaeozoological and archaeobotanical evidence from domestic contexts at the Early and Late Neolithic site of Mursalevo was used to explore food consumption and storage practices, subsistence strategies and exploitation of natural resources. Bioarchaeological evidence indicates diachronic changes of herd management and crop cultivation. During the Early Neolithic breeding of domesticates was focused on the production of meat, and crop assemblages point towards good growing conditions. In the Late Neolithic, herd management involved also milk production, with a larger contribution of cattle, while the dominating crops included mainly cereals and pulses that were adapted to unfavorable conditions. In addition, wild resources were less intensively used through time
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