FINGERPRINTING SNAKES: PALEONTOLOGICAL AND PALEOECOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF ZYGANTRAL GROWTH RINGS IN SERPENTES

Fingerprinting snakes: paleontological and paleoecological implications of zygantral growth rings in Serpentes

We introduce a new non-destructive source of skeletochronological data with applications to species identification, associating disarticulated remains, assessing minimum number of individuals (MNI), and collection management of fossil snakes, but with potential implications for all bony vertebrates, extinct or extant.Study of a diverse sample of Re

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Phenomenology of scotogenic scalar dark matter

Abstract We reexamine the minimal Singlet $$+$$ + Triplet Scotogenic Model, where dark matter is the mediator of neutrino mass generation.We assume it to be a scalar WIMP, whose stability follows from the same $${mathbb {Z}}_{2}$$ Z 2 symmetry that leads to the radiative origin of neutrino masses.The scheme is the minimal one that allows for solar

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