As a fundamental ecological aspect of most organisms, locomotor function significantly
constrains morphology. At the same time, the evolution of novel locomotor abilities has …

Avian skeletal morphology is associated with locomotor function, including flight style,
swimming and terrestrial locomotion, and permits informed inferences on locomotion in …

Palaeognathae consists of five groups of extant species: flighted tinamous (1) and four
flightless groups: kiwi (2), cassowaries and emu (3), rheas (4), and ostriches (5). Molecular …

The avian palaeognath phylogeny has been recently revised significantly due to the
advancement of genome-wide comparative analyses and provides the opportunity to trace …

To date, several studies describe post‐hatching ontogenetic variation in birds; however,
none of these studies document and compare ontogenetic variation of the entire skull in …

Comparative neuroanatomical studies have long debated the role of development in the
evolution of novel and disparate brain morphologies. Historically, these studies have …

Palaeognathae, the extant avian clade comprising the flightless ratites and flight‐capable
tinamous (Tinamidae), is the sister group to all other living birds, and recent phylogenetic …

Asteriornis maastrichtensis, from the latest Cretaceous of Belgium, is among the oldest
known crown bird fossils, and its three-dimensionally preserved skull provides the most …

Lithornithidae, an assemblage of volant Palaeogene fossil birds, provide our clearest
insights into the early evolutionary history of Palaeognathae, the clade that today includes …

The remarkable diversity of ecological niches that birds have evolved to inhabit have
resulted in their status as model organisms to study how the same morphological features …