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 …

The ability of feathers to perform many functions either simultaneously or at different times
throughout the year or life of a bird is integral to the evolutionary history of birds. Many …

This book provides a first synthetic view of an emerging area of ecology and biogeography,
linking individual-and population-level processes to geographic distributions and …

Archosaurs have a 250 million year record that originated shortly after the Permian-Triassic
extinction event and is continued today by two extant clades, the crocodylians and the …

The evolution of birds from theropod dinosaurs was one of the great evolutionary transitions
in the history of life [1–22]. The macroevolutionary tempo and mode of this transition is …

Vertebrate palaeontology is a lively field, with new discoveries reported every week... and
not only dinosaurs! This new edition reflects the international scope of vertebrate …

Several animals mitigate the fundamental conflict between sleep and wakefulness by
engaging in unihemispheric sleep, a unique state during which one cerebral hemisphere …

Long-distance dispersal (LDD) is central to species expansion following climate change, re-
colonization of disturbed areas and control of pests,,,,,,,. The current paradigm is that the …

In recent years, avian systematics has been characterized by a diminished reliance on
morphological cladistics of modern taxa, intensive palaeornithogical research stimulated by …

Although the dinosaurian hypothesis of bird origins is widely accepted, debate remains
about how the ancestor of birds first learned to fly. Here we provide new evidence …