The largest known dinosaurs weighed at least 20 million times as much as the smallest,
indicating exceptional phenotypic divergence. Previous studies have focused on extreme …

Sauropod dinosaurs are a group of herbivorous dinosaurs which exceeded all other
terrestrial vertebrates in mean and maximal body size. Sauropod dinosaurs were also the …

A study of the distribution of dinosaurian body masses in the Dinosaur Park Formation (DPF;
Campanian; southern Alberta), reveals a prominent negative skew; a pattern distinct from …

Neosauropods are well represented in the Late Jurassic fossil record, both in Laurasia and
Gondwana. Among Macronaria, Europasaurus represents one of the most basal forms of …

Gigantism—very large body size—is an ecologically important trait associated with
competitive superiority. Although it has been studied in particular cases, the general …

Species can respond differently when facing environmental changes, such as by shifting
their geographical ranges or through plastic or adaptive modifications to new environmental …

Birds stand out from other egg-laying amniotes by producing relatively small numbers of
large eggs with very short incubation periods (average 11–85 d). This aspect promotes high …

Information on aging, maturation, and growth is important for understanding life histories of
organisms. In extinct dinosaurs, such information can be derived from the histological growth …

Titanosauria is a globally distributed clade of sometimes extremely large Mesozoic
herbivorous sauropod dinosaurs. On the basis of current evidence these giant dinosaurs …

Three widely accepted assumptions are based on telomere research in human cells:(i)
telomere length is a determinant of replicative ageing;(ii) telomerase activity in somatic cells …