Stunning fossil shows dinosaurs’ distinctive path to flight
The Norellraptor barsboldi fossil shows traces of feathers on its fore and hind limbs as well as at…
Evolution of terrestrial anatomy revealed by a derived stem tetrapod
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Independent assembly of the flight apparatus in a non-avian dinosaur clade
Systematic palaeontology Dinosauria Owen, 1842 sensu28 Theropoda Marsh, 1881 sensu28 Dromaeosauridae Matthew and Brown, 1922 sensu7 Microraptorinae Senter…
Reference genomes and fossils revise bat family phylogeny and biogeography
Senckenberg-Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research, Senckenberganlage, Frankfurt, Germany Ariadna E. Morales, Evgeny V. Leushkin, Alexander Ben Hamadou, Alejandro…
Ancient proteins identify various Denisovan remains from Southwest China
Archaeological site and samples Bianfu Cave (26° 27′ 43.65′′ N, 100° 09′ 55.45′′ E) is in Heqing County, western Yunnan Province in southwestern China,…
Exceptional brain and ecological diversity in the earliest snakes
Caldwell, M. W. The Origin of Snakes: Morphology and the Fossil Record (CRC Press, 2019). Gower, D. J.…
Rates of passerine body plan evolution in time and space
Jablonski, D., Roy, K. & Valentine, J. W. Out of the tropics: evolutionary dynamics of the latitudinal diversity…
The evolution and diversification of Cetacea
Thewissen, J. & Bajpai, S. Whale origins as a poster child for macroevolution. BioScience 51, 1037–1049 (2001). Article …
Evolutionary drivers of encephalization and facial reduction in the genus Homo
Specimen inclusion The analyses are based on a dataset of 63 fossil specimens assigned to the genus Homo,…
A 5.3-million-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone
Woodward, S. P. A Manual of the Mollusca; or, Rudimentary Treatise of Recent and Fossil Shells (Weale, 1854).…
Ancient ground squirrels feasted on carcasses like ‘zombies of the Pleistocene’
Ground squirrels go into a hibernation state called torpor for up to eight months. Credit: Image Professionals GmbH/Alamy…
Darkness and body size shaped end-Cretaceous marine extinction patterns
Bambach, R. K. Phanerozoic biodiversity mass extinctions. Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 34, 127–155 (2006). Article ADS CAS …