Patterns of growth throughout the lifetime of an animal reflect critical life history traits such as
reproductive timing, physiology, and ecological interactions. The ancestral growth pattern for …

The vertebrate transition to land is one of the most consequential, yet poorly understood
periods in tetrapod evolution. Despite the importance of the water–land transition in …

The microscopic examination of fossilized bone tissue is a sophisticated and increasingly
important analytical tool for understanding the life history of ancient organisms. This book …

Basal tetrapods display a wide spectrum of vertebral centrum morphologies that can be
used to distinguish different tetrapod groups. The vertebral types range from multipartite …

To study the evolution of growth rates, it is necessary to develop two things: a sense of the
ontogenetic patterns of individual species, and a phylogeny of the species in question …

The origin of terrestrial tetrapods was a key event in vertebrate evolution, yet how and when
it occurred remains obscure, due to scarce fossil evidence. Here, we show that the study of …

Plesiosauria is an extinct clade of diapsid marine reptiles that evolved in the Late Triassic
and radiated globally for the remainder of the Mesozoic. The recent description of a …

Dispersal across biogeographic barriers is a key process determining global patterns of
biodiversity as it allows lineages to colonize and diversify in new realms. Here we …

This paper reviews significant discoveries and interpretations made for Paleozoic tetrapods
over the past twenty-five years. In that span twelve significant, new localities have been …

Bone healing is an important survival mechanism, allowing vertebrates to recover from injury
and disease. Here we describe newly recognized paleopathologies in the hindlimbs of the …