The late Ordovician Soom Shale Lagerstätte: an extraordinary post-glacial fossil and sedimentary record

SE Gabbott, C Browning, JN Theron… - Journal of the …, 2017 - lyellcollection.org
Fossils of the Late Ordovician Soom Shale Lagerstätte are characterized by exceptional
preservation of their soft tissues in clay minerals. The low-diversity community lived in an …

[HTML][HTML] Macrofossil evidence for a rapid and severe Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction in Antarctica

JD Witts, RJ Whittle, PB Wignall, JA Crame… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Debate continues about the nature of the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) mass extinction
event. An abrupt crisis triggered by a bolide impact contrasts with ideas of a more gradual …

[HTML][HTML] Antarctic crabs: invasion or endurance?

HJ Griffiths, RJ Whittle, SJ Roberts, M Belchier… - PLoS One, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Recent scientific interest following the “discovery” of lithodid crabs around Antarctica has
centred on a hypothesis that these crabs might be poised to invade the Antarctic shelf if the …

Teacher's perceptions of how they influence student academic performance in VCE physical education

RJ Whittle, A Telford, AC Benson - Australian Journal of Teacher …, 2018 - search.informit.org
This research explored teacher perceptions of how they influence academic performance of
Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) Physical Education students. VCE Physical …

A cool temperate climate on the Antarctic Peninsula through the latest Cretaceous to early Paleogene

DB Kemp, SA Robinson, JA Crame, JE Francis… - …, 2014 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Constraining past fluctuations in global temperatures is central to our understanding of the
Earth's climatic evolution. Marine proxies dominate records of past temperature …

[HTML][HTML] The early origin of the Antarctic marine fauna and its evolutionary implications

JA Crame, AG Beu, JR Ineson, JE Francis, RJ Whittle… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The extensive Late Cretaceous–Early Paleogene sedimentary succession of Seymour
Island, NE Antarctic Peninsula offers an unparalleled opportunity to examine the …

How predictable are mass extinction events?

WJ Foster, BJ Allen, NH Kitzmann… - Royal Society …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Many modern extinction drivers are shared with past mass extinction events, such as rapid
climate warming, habitat loss, pollution and invasive species. This commonality presents a …

Animal survival strategies in Neoproterozoic ice worlds

HJ Griffiths, RJ Whittle, EG Mitchell - Global Change Biology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The timing of the first appearance of animals is of crucial importance for understanding the
evolution of life on Earth. Although the fossil record places the earliest metazoans at 572 …

Regulatory T cells in chronic graft-versus-host disease after extracorporeal photopheresis: correlation with skin and global organ responses, and ability to taper …

HA Denney, RJ Whittle, J Lai, RM Jacques… - …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Background Induction of immune tolerance by an increase in regulatory T (Treg) cells after
extracorporeal photopheresis (ECP) is thought to contribute to how ECP exerts its …

[HTML][HTML] Globally discordant Isocrinida (Crinoidea) migration confirms asynchronous Marine Mesozoic Revolution

RJ Whittle, AW Hunter, DJ Cantrill… - Communications …, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract The Marine Mesozoic Revolution (MMR, starting~ 200 million years ago) changed
the ecological structure of sea floor communities due to increased predation pressure. It was …