Birds and mammals are key elements of modern ecosystems, and many biologists explain
their great success by their endothermy, or warm-bloodedness. New palaeontological …

The Triassic has long been recognized as a time during which marine and terrestrial
ecosystems modernized dramatically, and it seems to have been a two-step process. First …

The only true living endothermic vertebrates are birds and mammals, which produce and
regulate their internal temperature quite independently from their surroundings. For mammal …

The latitudinal biodiversity gradient (LBG), the increase in biodiversity from the poles to the
equator, is one of the most widely recognized global macroecological patterns, yet its deep …

The narrow active temperature ranges of ectothermic tetrapods can be used as proxies for
reconstructing paleoclimates. Here we deduce the climatic preferences of major Permo …

Recent palaeontological data and novel physiological hypotheses now allow a timescaled
reconstruction of the evolution of endothermy in birds and mammals. A three‐phase iterative …

Metabolic heat production in archosaurs has played an important role in their evolutionary
radiation during the Mesozoic, and their ancestral metabolic condition has long been a …

Abstract The Triassic Period was the setting for the origin and early diversification of
Mesozoic ecosystems after the end-Permian mass extinction. The study of the Triassic is …

We suggest that mammalian endothermy was established amongst Middle Jurassic crown
mammals, through reviewing state‐of‐the‐art fossil and living mammal studies. This is …

The whole‐body (tachymetabolic) endothermy seen in modern birds and mammals is long
held to have evolved independently in each group, a reasonable assumption when it was …