Functional space analyses reveal the function and evolution of the most bizarre theropod manual unguals. [PDF]
Commun Biol, 2023 Qin Z, Liao CC, Benton MJ, Rayfield EJ.
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A new alvarezsaurid dinosaur (Theropoda, Alvarezsauria) from the Upper Cretaceous Baruungoyot Formation of Mongolia provides insights for bird-like sleeping behavior in non-avian dinosaurs. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Kubo K +4 more
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Quantitative functional imaging of the pigeon brain: implications for the evolution of avian powered flight. [PDF]
Proc Biol SciBalanoff A +12 more
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Rates of dinosaur body mass evolution indicate 170 million years of sustained ecological innovation on the avian stem lineage. [PDF]
PLoS Biol, 2014 Benson RB +6 more
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A new carcharodontosaurian theropod dinosaur occupies apex predator niche in the early Late Cretaceous of Uzbekistan. [PDF]
R Soc Open Sci, 2021 Tanaka K +4 more
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Scientific and Artistic Representations in avian evolution
This essay explores the relationship between artistic and scientific perspectives in the depiction of birds' formal organization. It highlights how both fields converge in fundamental questions that shape the identity of avian organisms.
Buscalioni, Angela D.
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Extreme and rapid bursts of functional adaptations shape bite force in amniotes. [PDF]
Proc Biol Sci, 2019 Sakamoto M, Ruta M, Venditti C.
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Topology, divergence dates, and macroevolutionary inferences vary between different tip-dating approaches applied to fossil theropods (Dinosauria). [PDF]
Biol Lett, 2016 Bapst DW +3 more
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Forelimb reduction and digit loss were evolutionarily decoupled in oviraptorosaurian theropod dinosaurs. [PDF]
R Soc Open SciMead A, Funston G, Brusatte S.
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