To get us out of this mess, we need a full range of extant remedies, a tireless search for new ones and the nimbleness and open-mindedness to evaluate progress dispassionately and adapt our strategy accordingly.
The range of extant nest architectures for different types of solitary to social insects as well as the key features in their architecture has assisted in the identification of their structures in the geologic record.
However, the thickening of S. fatalis femurs was within the range of extant felids.
The normal body mass range of extant felid species is approximately 1 kg–300 kg (Prionailuris rubiginosus - Panthera tigris altaica), whereas Bovidae span 2 kg 1200 kg (Neotragus pygmaeus – Bubalus bubalis).
In the most detailed study, Einoder and Richardson [20] took foot measurements (including claws) from a range of extant Australasian raptors, looking for ecological links with prey choice, size, "hunting-killing technique", and phylogeny.
We empirically found that SR-MCL outperforms a range of extant algorithms in terms of its accuracy in identifying functional modules.
The DIVA and DEC methods allow the range of extant species and internal nodes (ancestral species) to encompass multiple discrete areas, and identify dispersal, vicariance or area extinction events.
Although the issue of body mass extrapolation to giant extinct taxa (for example, Sauropoda; [ 50, 72]) will always exist, the vast majority of extinct animals, including most non-avian dinosaurs, fall within the body mass range of extant taxa.
The resulting algorithm, denoted soft regularized Markov clustering, is shown to outperform a range of extant state-of-the-art approaches in terms of accuracy of identifying functional modules on three real PPI networks.
However, the applicability of this equation to fossil groups with unusual morphological features, overly robust/gracile limb elements or lying outside of the size range of extant taxa, remains to be tested.
