Because of the fast rate of wind-energy development it will become a challenge to verify
impacts on birdlife and construe ways to minimise these. Birds colliding with wind turbines …

The rapidly expanding interest in, and availability of, digital tomography data to visualize
casts of the vertebrate endocranial cavity housing the brain (endocasts) presents new …

Major evolutionary transitions, in which animals develop new body plans and adapt to
dramatically new habitats and lifestyles, have punctuated the history of life. The origin of …

Reptiles, including birds, exhibit a range of behaviorally relevant adaptations that are
reflected in changes to the structure of the inner ear. These adaptations include the capacity …

Owls and nightbirds are nocturnal hunters of active prey that combine visual and hearing
adaptations to overcome limits on sensory performance in low light. Such sensory …

Dilophosaurus wetherilli was the largest animal known to have lived on land in North
America during the Early Jurassic. Despite its charismatic presence in pop culture and …

Comparative auditory studies make it possible both to understand the origins of modern ears
and the factors underlying the similarities and differences in their performance. After all …

Ornithischian dinosaurs exhibited a diversity of ecologies, locomotory modes, and social
structures, making them an ideal clade in which to study the evolution of neuroanatomy and …

Sauropterygia, a successful clade of marine reptiles abundant in aquatic ecosystems of the
Mesozoic, inhabited nearshore to pelagic habitats over> 180 million years of evolutionary …

Turtles are relatively species-poor, but anatomically very distinct from other reptiles, which
yields longstanding debates about their origin among amniotes. On the other hand, an …