▪ Abstract Phylogenetic studies and new fossil evidence have yielded fundamental insights
into the pattern and timing of dinosaur evolution and the emergence of functionally modern …

Written for non-specialists, this detailed survey of dinosaur origins, diversity, and extinction is
designed as a series of successive essays covering important and timely topics in dinosaur …

The study of dinosaurs has been experiencing a remarkable renaissance over the past few
decades. Scientific understanding of dinosaur anatomy, biology, and evolution has …

The oldest unequivocal records of Dinosauria were unearthed from Late Triassic rocks
(approximately 230 Ma) accumulated over extensional rift basins in southwestern Pangea …

When the The Dinosauria was first published more than a decade ago, it was hailed as" the
best scholarly reference work available on dinosaurs" and" an historically unparalleled …

Many hypotheses have been proposed for the rise of dinosaurs, but their early diversification
remains poorly understood. This paper examines the occurrences, species diversity and …

Our knowledge of the origin and early evolution of birds has exploded in the past ten to
fifteen years. In the 1990s alone, scientists became aware of approximately three times more …

Early dinosaur evolution has been the subject of several phylogenetic studies and the
position of certain basal forms is currently debated. This is the case for the oldest known …

Dinosaurs were remarkably successful during the Mesozoic and one subgroup, birds,
remain an important component of modern ecosystems. Although the extinction of non-avian …

For 130 years, dinosaurs have been divided into two distinct clades—Ornithischia and
Saurischia. Here we present a hypothesis for the phylogenetic relationships of the major …