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 …

Palaeoecological deductions are vital for understanding the evolution and diversification of
species within prehistoric environments. This review highlights the multitude of ways in …

The fossil record of cetaceans documents how terrestrial animals acquired extreme
adaptations and transitioned to a fully aquatic lifestyle,. In whales, this is associated with a …

Despite its iconic status as the king of dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus rex biology is incompletely
understood. Here, we examine femur and tibia bone microstructure from two half-grown T …

The independent evolution of gigantism among dinosaurs has been a topic of long-standing
interest, but it remains unclear if gigantic theropods, the largest bipeds in the fossil record, all …

After the end-Cretaceous extinction, placental mammals quickly diversified, occupied key
ecological niches, and increased in size,, but this last was not true of other therians. The …

Fossil bone microanalyses reveal the ontogenetic histories of extinct tetrapods, but
incomplete fossil records often result in small sample sets lacking statistical strength. In …

Dinosauria debuted on Earth's stage in the aftermath of the Permo-Triassic Mass Extinction
Event, and survived two other Triassic extinction intervals to eventually dominate terrestrial …

Ankylosauria is a diverse clade of armoured dinosaurs whose members were important
constituents of many Cretaceous faunas. Phylogenetic analyses imply that the clade …

The ontogeny of early-diverging dinosauromorphs is poorly understood because few
ontogenetic series from the same species-level taxon are known and what is available has …