Background The origin of birds is one of the most enduring and dramatic evolutionary
debates. The hypothesis that the primarily small-sized birds are nested within a theropod …

Patagonia has yielded the most comprehensive fossil record of Cretaceous theropods from
Gondwana, consisting of 31 nominal species belonging to singleton taxa and six families …

The eggshell of the hen is a highly ordered and mineralised structure, which is sequentially
deposited within an acellular milieu–the uterine fluid secreted by the distal oviduct …

Isolated theropod teeth are some of the most common fossils in the dinosaur fossil record
and are continually reported in the literature. Recently developed quantitative methods have …

Postcranial pneumaticity has been reported in numerous extinct sauropsid groups including
pterosaurs, birds, saurischian dinosaurs, and, most recently, both crurotarsan and basal …

This book is comprised of 12 chapters covering topics in reptilian incubation. The chapters
are written by several authors. This book is aimed at serving as a valuable reference text for …

The dinosaur–bird transition involved several anatomical, biomechanical, and physiological
modifications of the theropod bauplan. Non-avian maniraptoran theropods, such as …

Although dinosaur eggs were first discovered and identified in the late 1800s, limited
attention was given to the scientific value of oological fossils in contrast to observations …

The unexpected discovery of non-avian dinosaurs from Arctic and Antarctic settings has
generated considerable debate about whether they had the capacity to reproduce at high …

The reproductive biology of dinosaurs is of great interest, particularly in light of the many
fossil eggs assigned to this group. The ultrastructural characteristics of dinosaur eggshells …