The initial radiation of Eosauropterygia during the Triassic biotic recovery represents a key
event in the dominance of reptiles secondarily adapted to marine environments. Recent …

The sabertooth morphology stands as a classic case of convergence, manifesting
recurrently across various vertebrate groups, prominently within two carnivorans clades …

Frequent and strong morphological convergence suggests that determinism tends to
supersede historical contingencies in evolutionary radiations. For many lineages living …

Abstract Thalattosuchia (Early Jurassic to Early Cretaceous) and Dyrosauridea (Late
Cretaceous to Early Eocene) are crocodylomorph archosaurs which diversified in fluvial and …

The link between skull shape and dietary ecology in birds at macroevolutionary scales has
recently been called into question by analyses of 3D shape that reveal that cranial anatomy …

Adaptation is the hallmark of evolutionary biology, explaining how species achieve
ecological success through natural selection. However, adaptation is challenging to identify …