Biomechanics illuminates form–function relationships in bird bills

A Krishnan - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2023 - journals.biologists.com
The field of comparative biomechanics examines how form, mechanical properties and
environmental interactions shape the function of biological structures. Biomechanics has …

Exceptionally preserved stomach contents of a young tyrannosaurid reveal an ontogenetic dietary shift in an iconic extinct predator

F Therrien, DK Zelenitsky, K Tanaka, JT Voris… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Tyrannosaurids were large carnivorous dinosaurs that underwent major changes in skull
robusticity and body proportions as they grew, suggesting that they occupied different …

Theropod dinosaur facial reconstruction and the importance of soft tissues in paleobiology

TM Cullen, DW Larson, MP Witton, D Scott, T Maho… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Large theropod dinosaurs are often reconstructed with their marginal dentition exposed
because of the enormous size of their teeth and their phylogenetic association to …

Calibrating geologic strata, dinosaurs, and other fossils at Dinosaur Provincial Park (Alberta, Canada) using a new CA-ID-TIMS U–Pb geochronology

DA Eberth, DC Evans, J Ramezani… - Canadian Journal of …, 2023 - cdnsciencepub.com
The 100 m thick stratigraphic section exposed at Dinosaur Provincial Park (DPP; southern
Alberta) contains bentonites that have been used for more than 30 years to date DPP's rocks …

Ecomorphological patterns in trigeminal canal branching among sauropsids reveal sensory shift in suchians

EJ Lessner, KN Dollman, JM Clark, X Xu… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The vertebrate trigeminal nerve is the primary mediator of somatosensory information from
nerve endings across the face, extending nerve branches through bony canals in the face …

What else is dentition telling us? A new specimen‐level phylogeny of Mesotheriidae (Mammalia, Notoungulata)

MA Armella, F Deforel - Cladistics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Mesotheriidae (Panperissodactyla, Notoungulata) are an extinct clade (early
Oligocene–Pleistocene) of small to medium‐sized herbivorous mammals that were widely …

Diversity through time and space in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation, western USA

SCR Maidment - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Understanding how biodiversity has changed through time and space is a central aim of
paleobiology. To elucidate accurate biodiversity patterns in deep time, regional case …

Anagenetic evolution and peramorphosis of a latest Devonian conodont from Holy Cross Mountain (Poland)

P Świś - Journal of Micropalaeontology, 2023 - jm.copernicus.org
I explored the fossil record of the Dasbergina marburgensis→ Dasbergina trigonica lineage
in Kowala, situated in the Holy Cross Mountains of central Poland. Through biometrical …

[PDF][PDF] PROBABLE JUVENILE FRONTAL OF DASPLETOSAURUS HORNERI (DINOSAURIA: THEROPODA) FROM THE TWO MEDICINE FORMATION OF MONTANA …

C Yun - Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae, 2023 - researchgate.net
A partial left frontal (UCM 55499) of a small tyrannosaurid theropod from the Campanian
Two Medicine Formation of Montana is described, and is considered to probably represent a …

A review of the theoretical models of processing fluency.

Y Yagi, Y Kasagi, K Inoue - Japanese Journal of Psychology, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
It is known that the ease of processing induces positive judgments in a wide variety of tasks
(the fluency effect). The authors reviewed eight theoretical models of the fluency effect and …