[کتاب][B] Vertebrate palaeontology

MJ Benton - 2014‏ - books.google.com
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 …

The late Cenozoic history of the ostriches (Aves: Struthionidae), as revealed by fossil eggshell and bone remains

KE Mikhailov, N Zelenkov - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Ostriches (Struthionidae) are iconic Old-World giant flightless birds. The two living
African species represent only a small part of ancient struthionid diversity, which comprises …

Slee** on the wing

NC Rattenborg - Interface Focus, 2017‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Wakefulness enables animals to interface adaptively with the environment. Paradoxically, in
insects to humans, the efficacy of wakefulness depends on daily sleep, a mysterious, usually …

Gigantism and its implications for the history of life

GJ Vermeij - PLoS One, 2016‏ - journals.plos.org
Gigantism—very large body size—is an ecologically important trait associated with
competitive superiority. Although it has been studied in particular cases, the general …

Effects of wind on the movement, behavior, energetics, and life history of seabirds

LH Thorne, TA Clay, RA Phillips, LG Silvers… - Marine Ecology …, 2023‏ - int-res.com
For decades, studies have highlighted links between wind patterns and the behavior,
ecology, distribution, energetics and life history of seabirds. However, only relatively recently …

[HTML][HTML] New specimens and species of the Oligocene toothed baleen whale Coronodon from South Carolina and the origin of Neoceti

RW Boessenecker, BL Beatty, JH Geisler - PeerJ, 2023‏ - peerj.com
Baleen whales (Mysticeti) are gigantic filter-feeding cetaceans possessing the unique soft
tissue structure baleen and lacking adult teeth; Oligocene fossils have revealed a wealth of …

[HTML][HTML] Pennaraptoran theropod dinosaurs past progress and new frontiers

M Pittman, X Xu - Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 2020‏ - BioOne
This chapter will cover clade definitions, the relationships within clades as well as the
occasional controversial relationships between different clades. Phylogenies arising from a …

Palaeoatmosphere facilitates a gliding transition to powered flight in the Eocene bat, Onychonycteris finneyi

NP Giannini, A Cannell, LI Amador… - Communications …, 2024‏ - nature.com
The evolutionary transition to powered flight remains controversial in bats, the only flying
mammals. We applied aerodynamic modeling to reconstruct flight in the oldest complete …

Thermal impact of migrating birds' wing color on their flight performance: Possibility of new generation of biologically inspired drones

M Hassanalian, H Abdelmoula, SB Ayed… - Journal of thermal …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
The thermal impact of the birds' color on their flight performance are investigated. In most of
the large migrating birds, the top of their wings is black. Considering this natural …

Aerodynamic modelling of a Cretaceous bird reveals thermal soaring capabilities during early avian evolution

FJ Serrano, LM Chiappe - Journal of the Royal Society …, 2017‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Several flight modes are thought to have evolved during the early evolution of birds. Here,
we use a combination of computational modelling and morphofunctional analyses to infer …