The origin and diversification of birds

SL Brusatte, JK O'Connor, ED Jarvis - Current Biology, 2015 - cell.com
Birds are one of the most recognizable and diverse groups of modern vertebrates. Over the
past two decades, a wealth of new fossil discoveries and phylogenetic and …

An integrative approach to understanding bird origins

X Xu, Z Zhou, R Dudley, S Mackem, CM Chuong… - Science, 2014 - science.org
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 …

A universal scaling relationship between body mass and proximal limb bone dimensions in quadrupedal terrestrial tetrapods

NE Campione, DC Evans - BMC biology, 2012 - Springer
Background Body size is intimately related to the physiology and ecology of an organism.
Therefore, accurate and consistent body mass estimates are essential for inferring …

Osteology of the Late Jurassic Portuguese sauropod dinosaur Lusotitan atalaiensis (Macronaria) and the evolutionary history of basal titanosauriforms

PD Mannion, P Upchurch, RN Barnes… - Zoological Journal of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Titanosauriforms represent a diverse and globally distributed clade of neosauropod
dinosaurs, but their inter-relationships remain poorly understood. Here we redescribe …

Subaqueous foraging among carnivorous dinosaurs

M Fabbri, G Navalón, RBJ Benson, D Pol, J O'Connor… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Secondary aquatic adaptations evolved independently more than 30 times from terrestrial
vertebrate ancestors,. For decades, non-avian dinosaurs were believed to be an exception …

Cope's rule and the adaptive landscape of dinosaur body size evolution

RBJ Benson, G Hunt, MT Carrano… - Palaeontology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The largest known dinosaurs weighed at least 20 million times as much as the smallest,
indicating exceptional phenotypic divergence. Previous studies have focused on extreme …

Body mass estimation in non‐avian bipeds using a theoretical conversion to quadruped stylopodial proportions

NE Campione, DC Evans, CM Brown… - Methods in Ecology …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Body mass is strongly related to both physiological and ecological properties of living
organisms. As a result, generating robust, broadly applicable models for estimating body …

A phenology of the evolution of endothermy in birds and mammals

BG Lovegrove - Biological Reviews, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Recent palaeontological data and novel physiological hypotheses now allow a timescaled
reconstruction of the evolution of endothermy in birds and mammals. A three‐phase iterative …

The accuracy and precision of body mass estimation in non‐avian dinosaurs

NE Campione, DC Evans - Biological Reviews, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Inferring the body mass of fossil taxa, such as non‐avian dinosaurs, provides a powerful tool
for interpreting physiological and ecological properties, as well as the ability to study these …

A large megaraptoridae (Theropoda: Coelurosauria) from upper cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of Patagonia, Argentina

AM Aranciaga Rolando, MJ Motta, FL Agnolín… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Megaraptora is a theropod clade known from former Gondwana landmasses and Asia. Most
members of the clade are known from the Early to Late Cretaceous (Barremian–Santonian) …