Reptile eggshell ensures water and gas exchange during incubation and plays a key role in
reproductive success. The diversity of reptilian incubation and life history strategies has led …

The astonishing diversity of plants and insects and their entangled interactions are
cornerstones in terrestrial ecosystems. Co‐occurring with species diversity is the diversity of …

Sloth morphological evolution has been widely studied qualitatively, with comparative
anatomy and morpho‐functional approaches, or through quantitative assessments of …

The avian palaeognath phylogeny has been recently revised significantly due to the
advancement of genome-wide comparative analyses and provides the opportunity to trace …

Actinopterygii makes up half of living vertebrate diversity, and study of fossil members during
their Palaeozoic rise to dominance has a long history of descriptive work. Although research …

Ecological preferences and life history strategies have enormous impacts on the evolution
and phenotypic diversity of salamanders, but the yet established reliable ecological …

The Rhynchonellida is a major group of brachiopods that survived the “big five” mass
extinctions and flourished after the Permian/Triassic (P/Tr) crisis. However, phylogenetic and …

Covarying suites of phenotypic traits, or modules, are increasingly recognized to promote
morphological evolution. However, information on how modularity influences flower diversity …

Convergent evolution is often attributed to adaptation of form to function, but it can also result
from ecological filtering, exaptation, or nonaptation. Testing among these possibilities is …

Thalattosuchia are a particularly diverse group of mostly marine crocodylomorphs that lived
during most of the Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous. Previous studies have sought to uncover …