Metabolic heat production in archosaurs has played an important role in their evolutionary
radiation during the Mesozoic, and their ancestral metabolic condition has long been a …

This paper is aimed at constraining the phylogenetic frame of the acquisition of endothermy
by Archosauromorpha. We analyzed the bone histology of Azendohsaurus laaroussii …

The acquisition of mammalian endothermy is poorly constrained both phylogenetically and
temporally. Here, we inferred the resting metabolic rates (RMRs) and the thermometabolic …

Physiological, anatomical, and developmental features of the crocodilian heart support the
paleontological evidence that the ancestors of living crocodilians were active and …

Ectothermy is a primitive state; therefore, a shared common ancestor of crocodiles,
dinosaurs, and birds was at some point ectothermic. Birds, the extant descendants of the …

The δ 18 O values of vertebrate bone phosphate are dependent upon the δ 18 O values of
their body water and the temperature of bone deposition. This allows the measurement of …

The study of bone growth rate and metabolic rate evolution in archosaurs (crocodiles,
dinosaurs including birds, and pterosaurs) and close outgroups has become a subject of …

The independent acquisition of endothermy in synapsids and diapsids are major events in
vertebrate evolution since they were the driving force of a suite of correlated changes in …

We tested if growth rates of recent taxa are unequivocally separated between endotherms
and ectotherms, and compared these to dinosaurian growth rates. We therefore performed …

Endothermy has evolved at least twice, in the precursors to modern mammals and birds. The
most widely accepted explanation for the evolution of endothermy has been selection for …