Trionychid (softshell) turtles have a peculiar bauplan, which includes shell reductions and
cranial elongation. Despite a rich fossil record dating back to the Early Cretaceous, the …

Overkill of large mammals is recognized as a key driver of Pleistocene megafaunal
extinctions in the Americas and Australia. While this phenomenon primarily affected mega …

The turtle shell is a remarkable structure that has intrigued not only evolutionary biologists
but also engineering and material scientists because of its multi-scale complexity and …

The laws governing life should be as simple as possible; however, theoretical investigations
into allometric laws have become increasingly complex, with the long-standing debate over …

The evolution of large size in vertebrates is a fascinating research topic, relevant, for
example, for the Cretaceous turtles of the Protostegidae clade, which includes some of the …

The humerus is central for locomotion in turtles as quadrupedal animals. Osteological
variation across testudine clades remains poorly documented. Here, we systematically …

The early evolution of Pan-Chelonioidea (sea turtles) is poorly understood. This is in part
due to the rarity of undeformed skulls of definitive early stem chelonioids. In this work, we …