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Morphology and function of pinniped necks: The long and short of it
Abstract Terrestrial vertebrates from at least 30 distinct lineages in both extinct and extant clades have returned to aquatic environments. With these transitions came numerous morphological adaptations to accommodate life in water. Relatively little attention has been paid to the cervical region when tracking this transition.
Justin Keller+3 more
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African Birds of Prey, by Leslie Brown. Collins, £2.25. [PDF]
C. W. Benson
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Abstract Modularity and integration are key developmental properties and have remained central in evo‐devo research because of how they relate to evolvability. While modularity and integration have commonly been assessed with landmark‐based geometric morphometrics (GMM), other methods such as anatomical network analysis (AnNA) are increasingly being ...
Kevin K. Duclos+4 more
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Resolution IX International Conference on the Study and Conservation of Birds of Prey of the Working Group on Birds of Prey of Northern Eurasia “Birds of Prey of Northern Eurasia: Research and Conservation”, Dedicated to the Memory of Vladimir Galushin ...
Igor V. Karyakin, Elvira G. Nikolenko
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China shares fossil treasures with the world
Abstract China has been a rich source of fossils for nearly a century, beginning with the discovery of so‐called Peking man (Sinanthropus pekinensis), known today as Homo erectus pekinensis in the mid 1920s. The first Chinese dinosaurs were described in 1929, the sauropod Helopus (now Euhelopus) and the ornithopod Tanius, described by the Swedish ...
Peter Dodson
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Commentary: What's so interesting about sabertooths?
Abstract Sabertooth creatures are fascinating to the public and to scientists. This Special Issue on The Anatomy of Sabertooths starts with a discussion of what exactly a sabertooth is, continues with a couple of papers about other animals with extraordinarily long teeth, and then delves into analyses of fossil sabertoothed taxa—some of which are not ...
Adam Hartstone‐Rose+2 more
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Osprey in Estonia and Latvia: Overview
Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) has been monitored annually since 1985 in Estonia. With few remained pairs in the beginning of monitoring the population started to grow and reached 90–100 pairs level currently.
Urmas Sellis, Aigars Kalvāns
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The Role of Birds of Prey in West Nile Virus Epidemiology. [PDF]
Vidaña B+5 more
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