Theropods are obligate bipedal dinosaurs that appeared 230 million years ago and are still extant as birds. Their history is characterized by extreme variations in body mass, with gigantism evolving c
Correlations between the paleoenvironmental proxy (∂18O) and Palmatolepis mean shape (PC1), total disparity (DispTot), group disparity (DispGp) and (sub)species disparity (DispSp) were calculated usin
Hupehsuchia, an enigmatic group of marine reptiles from the Lower Triassic of South China, is characterized by a suite of features including polydactyly in either or both fore and hind limbs. Particul
What genomic changes led to the origin of vertebrates remains a mystery. On the one hand, animal evolution is thought to be driven mostly by changes in the cis-regulatory regions of a shared conserved
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