Spinosaurs represent a group of peculiar theropod dinosaurs that have often been
described as “crocodile-mimic”, predominantly fish-eating predators, and recently claimed to …

The Sauropsida includes the extant crocodiles, birds, turtles, lizards and snakes. With
roughly 30,000 described species, it is not only the largest phylogenetic group within …

Non‐avian theropods were a highly successful clade of bipedal, predominantly carnivorous,
dinosaurs. Their diversity and macroevolutionary patterns have been the subject of many …

Mesozoic marine ecosystems were dominated by diverse lineages of aquatic tetrapods. For
over 50 Ma in the Jurassic until the Early Cretaceous, plesiosaurians, ichthyosaurians and …

Crocodyliformes have a well-known worldwilde fossil record, revealing a high diversity of
morphological traits, habits and being abundant in their paleofaunas. Such abundance in …

Vertebrate teeth are complex structures adapted in terms of shape and structure to serve a
variety of functions like biting and grinding. Thus, examining the morphology, composition …

The digital reconstruction of neurocranial endocasts has elucidated the gross brain structure
and potential ecological attributes of many fossil taxa, including Irritator, a spinosaurine …

Spinosaurus aegyptiacus was probably the largest predatory dinosaur of the Cretaceous
period. A new study shows that it was a semiaquatic hunter. The function of Spinosaurus' …

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

Adaptation to specialist ecological niches is a key innovation that has contributed to the
evolutionary success of many vertebrate clades, underpinning the acquisition of diverse …