The Wet Zone region of Sri Lanka has provided some the earliest direct evidence human utilization rainforest resources anywhere in world. Stable isotope analysis and animal remains, alongside detailed zooarchaeological analyses, have demonstrated reliance on as far back 48,000 years ago. However, changes adaptations varying niches exploited fauna, through major periods climatic change such duri...

The northward-flowing Humboldt Current hosts perpetually high levels of productivity along the western coast South America. Here, we aim to elucidate deep-time history this globally important ecosystem based on a detailed palaeoecological analysis exceptionally preserved middle–upper Miocene vertebrate assemblages Pisco Formation East Basin, southern Peru. We summarise observations hundreds fos...