ABSTRACT A new taxon of Cretaceous short-necked plesiosaur, Edgarosaurus muddi, gen.
et sp. nov., is described. The specimen consists of a complete skull, 34 vertebrae including …

The lepidosaurian skull has long been of interest to functional morphologists and
evolutionary biologists. Patterns of bone loss and gain, particularly in relation to bars and …

Mosasauroids are squamates secondarily adapted to an aquatic life that dominated the sea
during the Late Cretaceous. Mosasauroids display distinct types of morphologies illustrating …

Tyrannosaurus has been an exemplar organism in feeding biomechanical analyses. An
adult Tyrannosaurus could exert a bone‐splintering bite force, through expanded jaw …

Rhynchocephalians were a successful, globally distributed group of diapsid reptiles that
thrived in the Mesozoic. Multiple species of Clevosaurus existed worldwide in the Late …

Developmental changes in salamander skulls, before and after metamorphosis, affect the
feeding capabilities of these animals. How changes in cranial morphology and tissue …

An almost complete postcranial skeleton recovered from late Maastrichtian beds of central
Chile, which can be confidently referred to the clade Elasmosauridae (Sauropterygia …

Plesiosaurs are an iconic group of Mesozoic marine reptiles, uniquely equipped with four
flippers of the same size and shape. Plesiosaurs first appeared in the latest Triassic and …

ABSTRACT A new elasmosaur, Terminonatator ponteixensis, gen. et sp. nov., from the
Upper Campanian Bearpaw Formation of southwestern Saskatchewan, Canada, is one of …

Rorqual whales (crown Balaenopteridae) are unique among aquatic vertebrates in their
ability to lunge feed. During a single lunge, rorquals rapidly engulf a large volume of prey …