Aves (crown group of Avialae) is one of the most successful vertebrate groups on the planet today, including over ten thousand extant species worldwide.
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Birds have peramorphic skulls, too: anatomical network analyses reveal oppositional heterochronies in avian skull evolution. [PDF]
Commun Biol, 2020 Plateau O, Foth C.
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Jurassic avialan reveals stepwise evolution of bony tail in birds. [PDF]
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Insight into the evolutionary assemblage of cranial kinesis from a Cretaceous bird. [PDF]
Elife, 2022 Wang M, Stidham TA, O'Connor JK, Zhou Z.
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Reassessment of the Early Cretaceous North American "troodontid" Geminiraptor suarezarum as a therizinosaurian and mosaic evolution of coelurosaurian maxillae. [PDF]
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Whence the birds: 200 years of dinosaurs, avian antecedents. [PDF]
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Reconstruction of pectoral musculature in non-avialan paravians and basal birds: implications in the acquisition of flapping flight. [PDF]
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Putative avian teeth from the Late Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada, are more likely from crocodilians. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Mohr SR, Acorn JH, Currie PJ.
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Skeletal morphology of Mononykus olecranus (Theropoda, Avialae) from the late Cretaceous of Mongolia
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