Birds and hard ticks (Acari: Ixodidae), with discussions about hypotheses on tick evolution [PDF]
, 2017 The relationship between birds (Aves) and hard ticks (Ixodidae) was analyzed for the 386 of 721 tick extant species whose larva, nymph and adults are known as well as their natural hosts.
Guglielmone, Alberto, Nava, Santiago
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The evolution of pelvic limb muscle moment arms in bird-line archosaurs. [PDF]
Sci Adv, 2021 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]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2023 Mainwaring MC +5 more
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Feathered Dinosaurs Reconsidered: New Insights from Baraminology and Ethnotaxonomy [PDF]
, 2018 Birds could not have evolved from land animal ancestors because Genesis clearly states that birds and land animals were created on separate days. As a result, young-earth creationists have consistently opposed the theory that birds evolved from dinosaurs.
McLain, Matthew +2 more
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A New Coelurosaurian Theropod from the La Buitrera Fossil Locality of Río Negro, Argentina [PDF]
, 2012 A new coelurosaurian theropod, Alnashetri cerropoliciensis, is reported here based on articulated hind limbs of a single individual discovered at the locality of La Buitrera (Candeleros Formation, Cenomanian–Turonian), Río Negro Province, Argentina.
Apesteguía, Sebastián +2 more
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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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Bird neurocranial and body mass evolution across the end-Cretaceous mass extinction: The avian brain shape left other dinosaurs behind. [PDF]
Sci Adv, 2021 Torres CR, Norell MA, Clarke JA.
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Deep time diversity and the early radiations of birds. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2021 Yu Y, Zhang C, Xu X.
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Theropod dinosaurs from Argentina [PDF]
, 2016 Theropoda incluye a todos los dinosaurios más cercanamente relacionados a las aves que a los sauropodomorfos (dinosaurios de cuello largo) y ornithisquios (dinosaurios con cadera de ave).
Ezcurra, Martin Daniel +1 more
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Reconstructing locomotor ecology of extinct avialans: a case study of <i>Ichthyornis</i> comparing sternum morphology and skeletal proportions. [PDF]
Proc Biol Sci, 2023 Lowi-Merri TM +6 more
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