A bizarre Jurassic maniraptoran from China with elongate ribbon-like feathers
Recent coelurosaurian discoveries have greatly enriched our knowledge of the transition from dinosaurs to birds, but all reported taxa close to this transition are from relatively well known coelurosaurian groups.
Fu-cheng Zhang +4 more
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: Paraves is the taxonomic group that includes Dromaeosauridae, Troodontidae and ...
Qiang Ji, Xuri Wang
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Decoupling body shape and mass distribution in birds and their dinosaurian ancestors. [PDF]
Macaulay S +7 more
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New Specimens of Microraptor zhaoianus (Theropoda: Dromaeosauridae) from Northeastern China
New specimens of the diminutive theropod dinosaur Microraptor zhaoianus are described. These specimens preserve significant morphological details that are not present or are poorly preserved in the holotype specimen, including aspects of the manus ...
Sunny H. Hwang +3 more
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Here we describe a new theropod, Bicentenaria argentina nov. gen. et nov. sp., from the early Late Cretaceous of Patagonia. It is represented by more than a hundred bones belonging to different sized individuals, which were buried together in ...
Fernando E Novas +4 more
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The evolution of pelvic limb muscle moment arms in bird-line archosaurs. [PDF]
Allen VR, Kilbourne BM, Hutchinson JR.
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The evolution of nest site use and nest architecture in modern birds and their ancestors. [PDF]
Mainwaring MC +5 more
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Bird neurocranial and body mass evolution across the end-Cretaceous mass extinction: The avian brain shape left other dinosaurs behind. [PDF]
Torres CR, Norell MA, Clarke JA.
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Exceptional Preservation of Non-Mineralized Biomaterials in Fossils of the Avialae Clade
Thousands of primitive and diverse fossils birds from Mesozoic and Cenozoic have been discovered around the world. Among these, hundreds of studies have found exceptional preservation of mineralized biomaterials, allowing to expand the knowledge about the ecology and Evolution of birds.
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Deep time diversity and the early radiations of birds. [PDF]
Yu Y, Zhang C, Xu X.
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