Most relevant results4 results in the last year.

The extinct marine megafauna of the Phanerozoic

C Pimiento, K Koc�kov�, GH Mathes, T Argyriou…�- Cambridge Prisms�…, 2024
… However, to better understand the extinct marine 131 megafauna, as well as their
impact on … The purpose of this review is to describe the diversity of extinct marine
megafauna over the 148 … Non-avian reptilian megafauna first appeared in the�…

The Little Book of Dinosaurs

R Charles - 2024
… Dinosaurs never fail to surprise with their incredible diversity, coming in all
different shapes … history largely took place in the Cretaceous, although its effects
would extend all the way to the … Jurassic, the first distinctively ceratopsian features�…

Thermoregulation in late cretaceous marine reptiles of Manitoba

V Markstrom - 2023
… , the ecological implications of their metabolic status are also unclear: ie its effect
on feeding, … -avian dinosaurs have also been described as possessing
characteristics of modern birds, … concentration but low generic diversity of�…

Neuroanatomy of Early Amniotes and the Evolution of Mammalian Audition

KD Bazzana-Adams - 2023
… Synapsids, now represented only by mammals, comprise a great diversity of fossil
taxa … synapsids and test the long-hypothesized effects of postdentary reduction on
hearing sensitivity. … focused on diapsids and, in particular, birds and non- avian�…
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20 results in the last month.

Earliest evidence of avian primary feather moult

X Wang, J O'Connor, X Zheng, Y Wang, Y Kiat�- Biology Letters, 2024
… However, this is a slow strategy such that moult duration is protracted, especially
in large taxa due to the fairly constant rate of feather growth [9,… in two Early
Cretaceous pygostylian bird specimens tentatively referred to�…

Nudiviruses in free-living and parasitic arthropods: evolutionary taxonomy

JM Petersen, AL Burgess, MM van Oers, EA Herniou…�- Trends in Parasitology, 2024
… at ~140 Mya (Node 11; late Jurassic – early Cretaceous), it seems possible that a
single host-switching … on the host diversity, environmental diversity, host diet,
ecological role, and potential impact … importance and new prospects for biocontrol�…

The first troodontid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous Baruungoyot Formation of Mongolia

S Lee, YN Lee, JY Park, SH Kim, Z Badamkhatan…�- Journal of Vertebrate�…, 2024
… region with high troodontid diversity and has also produced eight troodontid taxa
until now. The … only to Philovenator among cursorial non-avian maniraptorans. It
also implies high … it forms a separate clade with several Early Cretaceous�…

Are Birds Dinosaurs? A Critical Analysis of Fossil Findings

R Junker
… characteristics, the greatest degree of diversity is seen near the base of the bird
groups. … nonbirds and birds in morphospace, but once the avian body plan was
gradually assembled, birds … 50 “Incongruous with other Early Cretaceous birds�…

Quantitative insights into osteocyte density developmental patterns in fossilized bone—A new method

D Horvath, XR Wang, M Kundr�t�- Palaeoworld, 2024
… Specifically addressing the diversity of tissue types, this research primarily refers
to … bird closely related to the bohaiornithid group and dating back to the Early
Cretaceous, … , a species of significant importance in avian evolutionary history. We�…

Functional Morphology of Pterosaur Fingers and Claws

J Collet - 2024
… For example, birds that spend most of their time on the ground have less sharply
curved claws than birds that spend most of … Among all vertebrates, pterosaurs
were the first, and for a long time, the only, group to evolve powered flight (Bennett�…

12TH NORTH AMERICAN PALEONTOLOGICAL CONVENTION UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 17-21 JUNE 2024

M Friedman, J Wilson Mantilla - 2024
… also yield fossils of Dunkleosteus, complementing the diversity of placoderms
known from … Douglass Houghton, the first state geologist of Michigan, collected
the first fossils added to … a resource of international significance, and rank as one�…

Evolution of Amazonian biodiversity: A review

M Juan, CC RIBAS, AC CARNAVAL, JD CARRILLO…
… DNA studies suggest that flowering plants first diversified in the Early Cretaceous
or ca. 145–… stress that the effects of Pleistocene climate oscillations on the
diversification of Amazonian … Areas of endemism and diversification patterns for�…

Treewilding: Our Past, Present and Future Relationship with Forests

J Robinson - 2024
… Are there lessons of cooperation, interdependence and diversity to learn from our
invisible … populations during the Late Jurassic and early Cretaceous periods.
Some flowering vegetation in … Our understanding of the consequences of�…

From dinosaurs to birds: paleomacroecological analysis of the body size inversion in the maniraptor lineage

CM Vieira, PO Paulo, ARV de Sousa, MS Primo�- Cuadernos de Educaci�n y�…, 2024
ecological variables, such as body size, geographical distribution area, and local
population densities of species of large organism groups, measured on large
belonging to the lineage that gave rise to birds produced a more evident effect of the�…
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