Chronic pain is considered maladaptive by clinicians because it provides no apparent
protective or recuperative benefits. Similarly, evolutionary speculations have assumed that …

Our understanding of the biology of pain is limited by our ignorance about its evolution. We
know little about how states in other species showing various degrees of apparent similarity …

Studies on pathological fossil bones have allowed improving the knowledge of physiology
and ecology, and consequently the life history of extinct organisms. Among extinct …

Paleopathological diagnoses provide key information on the macroevolutionary origin of
disease as well as behavioral and physiological inferences that are inaccessible via direct …

Various prominent theories of pain assume that it is pain's biological function to inform
organisms about damage to their bodies. I argue that this is a mistake. First, there is no …

One of the best-known prosauropods is Plateosaurus, from the Upper Triassic of western
Europe (figure 6.4). Mass death assemblages of this large (6 to 8 meters in body length) …

We describe a trackway (LH-Mg-10-16) occurring in laminated carbonated limestones of the
Las Hoyas locality, Serranía de Cuenca, Spain. It is unmistakably a large theropod dinosaur …

Palaeopathological analyses have great potential to provide insights into dinosaurs'
palaeobiology and life histories, but few cases have been reported in China. In this study …

The study of palaeopathology provides valuable information about injury and behaviour in
extinct organisms. Appendicular pathologies are interesting as they directly affect mobility …

As more new fossils are discovered, a great number of extraordinary specimens have
greatly enhanced our understanding of bone features in dinosaurs. The fracture patterns of …