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 …

During the Mesozoic, various groups of reptiles underwent a spectacular return to an aquatic
life, colonizing most marine environments. They were highly diversified both systematically …

Secondary aquatic adaptations evolved independently more than 30 times from terrestrial
vertebrate ancestors,. For decades, non-avian dinosaurs were believed to be an exception …

Throughout the animal kingdom, adaptive colouration serves critical functions ranging from
inconspicuous camouflage to ostentatious sexual display, and can provide important …

The defining masterwork on the evolution of reptiles. Over 300 million years ago, an early
land vertebrate developed an egg that contained the embryo in an amnion, allowing it to be …

Secondary marine adaptation is a major pattern in amniote evolution, accompanied by
specific bone histological adaptations. In the aftermath of the end-Permian extinction …

Reptilia exploit a large diversity of food resources from plant materials to living mobile prey.
They are among the first tetrapods that needed to drink to maintain their water homeostasis …

Amniotes have been a major component of marine trophic chains from the beginning of the
Triassic to present day, with hundreds of species. However, inferences of their (palaeo) …

Background Plesiosaurs are marine reptiles that arose in the Late Triassic and survived to
the Late Cretaceous. They have a unique and uniform bauplan and are known for their very …

Recently it was suggested that the phylogenetic clustering of Mesozoic marine reptile
lineages, such as thalattosaurs, the very successful fish-shaped ichthyosaurs and …