Table for two: Diet composition differences of allopatric and sympatric populations of island geckos by Catarina J. Pinho, Bárbara Santos, Vanessa A. Mata, Ricardo J. Lopes, Maria M. Romeiras, Evandro P. Lopes, Paulo C. Alves, Brent C. Emerson, Raquel Vasconcelos

“…This is exemplified by the two endemic wall geckos, Tarentola gigas and Tarentola raziana, which occur in sympatry on Raso Islet, with the latter also occurring in allopatry on Santa Luzia Island, due to the human-mediated extinction of T. gigas. DNA metabarcoding of faecal pellets was used to compare the diets of both sympatric and allopatric populations. …”
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Simultaneous Multiband Photometry of the Early Optical Afterglow of GRB 240825A with Mephisto by Yehao Cheng, Yu Pan, Yuan-Pei Yang, Jinghua Zhang, Guowang Du, Yuan Fang, Brajesh Kumar, Helong Guo, Xinzhong Er, Xinlei Chen, Chenxu Liu, Tao Wang, Zhenfei Qin, Yicheng Jin, Xingzhu Zou, Xuhui Han, Pinpin Zhang, Liping Xin, Chao Wu, Jianhui Lian, Xiangkun Liu, Xiaowei Liu

“…To reconcile the measured much softer spectral energy distribution (SED) with that predicted by the standard afterglow model, an extra host-galaxy extinction of E _B _− _V  ∼ (0.37–0.57) mag is required. …”
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Rethinking the four-wing problem in plesiosaur swimming using bio-inspired decentralized control by Akira Fukuhara, Mitsutoshi Sato, Hisayuki Ogawa, Tamaki Sato, William Sellers, Akio Ishiguro

“…Recent engineering-inspired paleontological studies have reconstructed feasible locomotor patterns in extinct animals. However, it is still challenging to describe how extinct animals successfully adjust their locomotor patterns to new situations (e.g., changes in locomotor speed and morphology). …”
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Virtual reality as an alternative to reproduction by Matti Häyry

“…Abstract Abiding by two intuitive ethical rules—“Do not contribute to the production of suffering” and “Do not make self-conscious species extinct without their consent”—at the same time presents a difficulty. …”
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Ultrastructure of the molar enamel in representatives of the genus Ellobius (Rodentia) in the Pleistocene and Holocene of Ukraine by Leonid Rekovets, Vitalii Demeshkant

“…Among the analysed species are the extinct Е. tiliguliensis, E. paleotalpinus, E. tarchankutensis, E. tauricus, and E. melitopoliensis, some extinct populations of Ellobius talpinus from the Late Pleistocene, as well as the extant E. talpinus and E. fuscocapillus. …”
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Pseudobarbus kubhekai sp. nov., a new redfin (Teleostei, Cyprinidae) from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa by Fatah Zarei, Xiluva Mathebula, Albert Chakona

“…A recent phylogeographic analysis of the remnant populations of Pseudobarbus quathlambae from Lesotho and South Africa revealed the existence of three allopatrically distributed lineages: (i) one in eastern Lesotho, (ii) one in Mohale, central Lesotho, and (iii) a third lineage in the Umzimkhulu (= Mzimkhulu) River, KwaZulu-Natal, adjacent to the Mkhomazana River (type locality), where the species has gone extinct. The present study provides morphological and osteological evidence corroborating the distinctiveness of the Umzimkhulu River population from all other populations (extant and extinct) of P. quathlambae, supporting their recognition as distinct species. …”
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Underwater paleontology inside cenotes reveals the Miocene-Pliocene fish diversity in the Yucatan Peninsula, southeast Mexico. by Kleyton M Cantalice, Hugo E Salgado-Garrido, Erick Sosa-Rodríguez, Kay Vilchis-Zapata, Gerardo González-Barba, Underwater Archaeological Atlas project

“…The small size of some teeth indicates that the deposits of Carrillo Puerto could be a shelter for tiny marine organisms, and the presence of some taxa highlights local extinctions in the Western Atlantic during the Late Cenozoic.…”
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The first neuroanatomical study of a marine pleurodire (the large Paleocene bothremydid Azzabaremys moragjonesi) reveals convergences with other clades of pelagic turtles by Marcos Martín-Jiménez, Adán Pérez-García

“…Thus, aspects such as the position of the geniculate ganglion into the canalis cavernosus, the absence of an anterior vidian canal piercing the pterygoid, and the possession of wide semicircular canals of the endosseous labyrinth, as well as the possible presence of enlarged lacrimal glands, are recognized here as convergent modifications developed in Cryptodira, extinct clades with uncertain affiliations, and Pleurodira in response to adaptation to marine environments.…”
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Significant records of plants, algae, fungi, and animals in SE Europe and adjacent regions, 3 by Aljaž Jakob, Laura Štampar, Žan Lobnik Cimerman, Simona Strgulc Krajšek, Miloš Vittori, Dren Dolničar

“…We report the three new records of an isopod Armadillo officinalis, a species that has been considered possibly extinct in Slovenia, and a new record of bat, Plecotus macrobullaris, from the Julian Alps. …”
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Persistence and Nonpersistence of a Predator Prey System with Stochastic Perturbation by Haihong Li, Daqing Jiang, Fuzhong Cong, Haixia Li

“…After that, conditions for the system going extinct in probability are established. At last, numerical simulations are carried out to support our results.…”
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Vous avez dit paléogénomique ? by Céline Bon, Marie-Claude Marsolier-Kergoat

“…Since its appearance in 2001, it has widely expanded, addressing increasingly ambitious themes, from the reconstruction of extinct animals' genomes of to the inference of migration and mixing processes among humans. …”
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Monster or Missing Link? The Mermaid and the Victorian Imagination by Béatrice Laurent

“…While the evolutionist hypothesis was gaining ground in the early decades of the nineteenth century and paleontology showed that species had existed and become extinct, many natural scientists were led to think that the fantastic animals which peopled classical mythologies maybe were not the fantasies of creative minds but lost species. …”
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An interesting observation of Eurasian beaver Castor fiber Linnaeus, 1758 in Vidovec Cave (Metlika, Slovenia) by Tinkara Kepic, Meta Valenčič, Marisa Schlamberger, Tjaša Trajbarič, Łukasz Popowicz, Annasibila Požrl, Valentina Jakob, Klara Žos, Ester Premate

“… The Eurasian beaver is a common rodent which became extinct in Slovenia in the 18th century and reappeared in the 1990’s. …”
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Combined impact of fear and Allee effect in predator-prey interaction models on their growth by Kawkab Al Amri, Qamar J. A Khan, David Greenhalgh

“…After a certain level of fear, the predator population went extinct and, as a result, the only interaction left was between uninfected and infected prey which increased disease transmission, and so the infected prey increased. …”
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A contribution to the Slovenian spider fauna – I. by Rok Kostanjšek

“…Recent records on presumably extinct endemic species Nesticus idriacus are also provided, as well as suggestion to its transfer to the IUCN category rare (R). …”
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Global Dynamics of a Prey-Predator Model with Antipredator Behavior and Two Predators by Chentong Li, Yingying Zhang, Jinhu Xu, Yicang Zhou

“…Through analyzing the global dynamics, we find that there exist some values of the parameters such that one of the predators can be driven into being extinct by another. Furthermore, the coexistence of the three species is investigated which shows that the antipredator behavior makes the species coexist by periodic oscillation. …”
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Altruistic aging: The evolutionary dynamics balancing longevity and evolvability by Minette Herrera, Aaron Miller, Joel Nishimura

“…According to numerical simulations of an agent-based model, while long-lived individuals can outcompete their short lived peers, populations composed of long-lived individuals are more likely to go extinct during periods of rapid environmental change. …”
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Global stability and uniform persistence of the reaction-convection-diffusion cholera epidemic model by Kazuo Yamazaki, Xueying Wang

“…We study the global stability issue of the reaction-convection-diffusion cholera epidemic PDE model and show that the basic reproduction number serves as a threshold parameter that predicts whether cholera will persist or become globally extinct. Specifically, when the basic reproduction number is beneath one, we show that the disease-free-equilibrium is globally attractive. …”
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The impact of migrant workers on the tuberculosis transmission: General models and a case study forChina by Luju Liu, Jianhong Wu, Xiao-Qiang Zhao

“…The basic reproduction number$\mathcal{R}_{0}$ is calculated, and is shown to be a thresholdparameter for the disease to persist or become extinct in thepopulation. The existence and global attractivity of an endemicequilibrium, if $\mathcal{R}_{0}>1$, is also established under sometechnical conditions. …”
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Species distribution models of Türkiye’s endemic genus: Seminemacheilus Banarescu & Nalbant, 1995 (Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae) by Sungur Sevil

“…Simulations of future projections indicated that bioclimatically suitable habitats of Seminemacheilus spp. will be limited in 2050 and nearly extinct in 2070. The model is primarily affected by temperature and precipitation, which are directly associated with the phenomenon of global warming. …”
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