Birds stand out from other egg-laying amniotes by producing relatively small numbers of
large eggs with very short incubation periods (average 11–85 d). This aspect promotes high …

Bayesian divergence time analyses were used to simultaneously infer the phylogenetic
relationships and date the major clades of snakes including several important fossils that …

Abstract The Ypresian Cambay Shale Formation at Vastan and Mangrol lignite mines in
Gujarat, western India, has yielded a rich vertebrate fauna with numerous taxa of European …

South American titanosaurians have been central to the study of the evolution of Cretaceous
sauropod dinosaurs. Despite their remarkable diversity, the fragmentary condition of several …

We present the first known fossilized snake embryo/neonate preserved in early Late
Cretaceous (Early Cenomanian) amber from Myanmar, which at the time, was an island arc …

Knowledge about the types of nests built by dinosaurs can provide insight into the evolution
of nesting and reproductive behaviors among archosaurs. However, the low preservation …

As indicated by their highly vascularized fibrolamellar bone (but also by estimates from rare
growth marks and estimates from local bone tissue apposition rates), growth rates of …

During the Cretaceous and Paleogene, the Indian subcontinent was isolated as it migrated
north from the east coast of Africa to collide with Asia. As it passed over the Reunion hotspot …

Sauropod dinosaurs are a group of herbivorous dinosaurs which exceeded all other
terrestrial vertebrates in mean and maximal body size. Sauropod dinosaurs were also the …

The cranial anatomy of Dinilysia patagonica, a terrestrial snake from the Upper Cretaceous
of Argentina, is redescribed and illustrated, based on high-resolution X-ray computed …