Natural history museums and the specimen collections they curate are vital scientific
infrastructure, a fact as true today as it was when biologists began collecting and preserving …

Understanding the link between ecology and morphology is a fundamental goal in biology.
Ants are diverse terrestrial organisms, known to exhibit ecologically driven morphological …

Background The origin of powered avian flight was a locomotor innovation that expanded
the ecological potential of maniraptoran dinosaurs, leading to remarkable variation in …

Paleoecological estimation is fundamental to the reconstruction of evolutionary and
environmental histories. The ant fossil record preserves a range of species in three …

Hanson et al.(Research Articles, 7 May 2021, p. 601) claim that the shape of the vestibular
apparatus reflects the evolution of reptilian locomotion. Using biomechanics, we …

The Lygodactylus genus is one of the most species-rich genera of gekkonid lizards in Africa.
It is one of relatively few exclusively diurnal geckos' lineages and its members include some …

Arboreal supports impose a set of locomotor challenges not typically encountered in other
terrestrial ecosystems. Because all arboreal animals must negotiate this common set of …

Since molecular data identified hippopotamids as the closest living relatives of cetaceans, a
common aquatic/semiaquatic ancestor hypothesis for these modern taxa has naturally been …

Madtsoiids are among the most basal snakes, with a fossil record dating back to the Upper
Cretaceous (Cenomanian). Most representatives went extinct by the end of the Eocene, but …

Questions concerning the evolution of complex biological structures are central to the field of
evolutionary biology. Yet, still little information is known about the modes and temporal …