Sexual maturity in growing dinosaurs does not fit reptilian growth models

AH Lee, S Werning - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Recent histological studies suggest relatively rapid growth in dinosaurs. However, the timing
of reproductive maturity (RM) in dinosaurs is poorly known because unambiguous indicators …

Growth patterns in brooding dinosaurs reveals the timing of sexual maturity in non-avian dinosaurs and genesis of the avian condition

GM Erickson, K Curry Rogers… - Biology …, 2007 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The timing of sexual maturation in non-avian dinosaurs is not known. In extant squamates
and crocodilians it occurs in conjunction with the initial slowing of growth rates as adult size …

Medullary bone in fossils: function, evolution and significance in growth curve reconstructions of extinct vertebrates

E Prondvai - Journal of evolutionary biology, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Medullary bone (MB) is a special endosteal tissue forming in the bones of female birds
during egg laying to serve as a labile calcium reservoir for building the hard eggshell …

Speculations on the growth rate and reproduction of some dinosaurs

TJ Case - Paleobiology, 1978 - cambridge.org
If the dinosaurs Protoceratops grangeri and Hypselosaurus sp. grew at rates predicted for
their body size from extant reptiles, their expected ages at reproductive maturity would be …

Scaling of reproductive turnover in archosaurs and mammals: why are large terrestrial mammals so rare?

CM Janis, M Carrano - Annales Zoologici Fennici, 1991 - JSTOR
Following an idea originally expressed by Björn Kurtén (1953), we here investigate the
notion that differences in the scaling of reproductive output could be responsible (at least in …

On dinosaur growth

GM Erickson - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Despite nearly two centuries of investigation, a comprehensive understanding of dinosaur
biology has proven intractable. The recent development of means to study tissue-level …

Dinosaurian growth rates and bird origins

K Padian, AJ de Ricqlès, JR Horner - Nature, 2001 - nature.com
Dinosaurs, like other tetrapods, grew more quickly just after hatching than later in life.
However, they did not grow like most other non-avian reptiles, which grow slowly and …

Relative growth rates of predator and prey dinosaurs reflect effects of predation

LN Cooper, AH Lee, ML Taper… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Hadrosaurs grew rapidly, and quantifying their growth is key to understanding life-history
interactions between predators and prey during the Late Cretaceous. In this study, we …

Dinosaurian growth patterns and rapid avian growth rates

GM Erickson, KC Rogers, SA Yerby - Nature, 2001 - nature.com
Did dinosaurs grow in a manner similar to extant reptiles, mammals or birds, or were they
unique? Are rapid avian growth rates an innovation unique to birds, or were they inherited …

[HTML][HTML] A hypothesis of differential secondary bone formation in dinosaurs

K Padian, S Werning, JR Horner - Comptes Rendus Palevol, 2016 - Elsevier
We propose the hypothesis that in the long bones of large, rapidly growing animals,
secondary osteons may form to a greater degree in smaller bones than in larger ones for …