Derek E G Briggs
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Recent Articles
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Haug C, Braig F, Linhart S, Briggs D, Melzer R, Caballero A, et al.
Insect Sci
. 2025 Feb;
PMID: 39963854
Many insects and their relatives are renowned for sophisticated compound eyes, which are also preserved in the fossil record. Yet there are other types of eyes, notably the so-called stemmata...
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Sutton M, Sigwart J, Briggs D, Gueriau P, King A, Siveter D, et al.
Nature
. 2025 Jan;
637(8046):631-636.
PMID: 39779843
Mollusca is the second most species-rich animal phylum, but the pathways of early molluscan evolution have long been controversial. Modern faunas retain only a fraction of the past forms in...
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Parry L, Briggs D, Ran R, OFlynn R, Mai H, Clark E, et al.
Curr Biol
. 2024 Oct;
34(23):5578-5586.e2.
PMID: 39476836
The "short-great-appendage" arthropods (Megacheira), such as Leanchoilia, have featured heavily in discussions of arthropod evolution, particularly related to the head and its appendages. Megacheirans are subject to competing interpretations, either...
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Slagter S, Konhauser K, Briggs D, Tarhan L
Geobiology
. 2024 Aug;
22(4):e12615.
PMID: 39149974
The earliest evidence of complex macroscopic life on Earth is preserved in Ediacaran-aged siliciclastic deposits as three-dimensional casts and molds, known as Ediacara-style preservation. The mechanisms that led to this...
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Charbonnier S, Vogt G, Forel M, Hieu N, Devillez J, Laville T, et al.
Sci Rep
. 2024 Jul;
14(1):17744.
PMID: 39085260
The biology of extinct animals is usually reconstructed from external morphological characters and comparison with present-day analogues. Internal soft organs are very rarely preserved in fossils and require high-tech approaches...
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Ruebenstahl A, Mongiardino Koch N, Lamsdell J, Briggs D
Proc Biol Sci
. 2024 Jul;
291(2027):20241184.
PMID: 39079669
Eurypterids-Palaeozoic marine and freshwater arthropods commonly known as sea scorpions-repeatedly evolved to remarkable sizes (over 0.5 m in length) and colonized continental aquatic habitats multiple times. We compiled data on...
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Siveter D, Briggs D, Siveter D, Sutton M
Biol Lett
. 2024 May;
20(5):20240097.
PMID: 38773927
Ostracod crustaceans originated at least 500 Ma ago. Their tiny bivalved shells represent the most species-abundant fossil arthropods, and ostracods are omnipresent in a wide array of freshwater and marine...
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Briggs D, Mongiardino Koch N
Curr Biol
. 2023 Dec;
33(23):5273.
PMID: 38052164
No abstract available.
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Briggs D, Mongiardino Koch N
Curr Biol
. 2023 Nov;
33(23):5225-5232.e3.
PMID: 37935193
Pterobranchs, a major group of the phylum Hemichordata, first appear in the fossil record during the Cambrian, and there are more than 600 fossil genera dominated by the mainly planktic...
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Wiemann J, Menendez I, Crawford J, Fabbri M, Gauthier J, Hull P, et al.
Nature
. 2023 Sep;
621(7977):E4-E6.
PMID: 37673991
No abstract available.