Whole‐body endothermy: ancient, homologous and widespread among the ancestors of mammals, birds and crocodylians

G Grigg, J Nowack, JEPW Bicudo, NC Bal… - Biological …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
The whole‐body (tachymetabolic) endothermy seen in modern birds and mammals is long
held to have evolved independently in each group, a reasonable assumption when it was …

[HTML][HTML] Late Permian (Lo**ian) terrestrial ecosystems: a global comparison with new data from the low-latitude Bletterbach Biota

M Bernardi, FM Petti, E Kustatscher, M Franz… - Earth-Science …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
The late Palaeozoic is a pivotal period for the evolution of terrestrial ecosystems.
Generalised warming and aridification trends resulted in profound floral and faunal turnover …

The macroevolutionary singularity of snakes

PO Title, S Singhal, MC Grundler, GC Costa, RA Pyron… - Science, 2024‏ - science.org
Snakes and lizards (Squamata) represent a third of terrestrial vertebrates and exhibit
spectacular innovations in locomotion, feeding, and sensory processing. However, the …

[HTML][HTML] The phylogenetic relationships of basal archosauromorphs, with an emphasis on the systematics of proterosuchian archosauriforms

MD Ezcurra - PeerJ, 2016‏ - peerj.com
The early evolution of archosauromorphs during the Permo-Triassic constitutes an excellent
empirical case study to shed light on evolutionary radiations in deep time and the timing and …

Enigmatic dinosaur precursors bridge the gap to the origin of Pterosauria

MD Ezcurra, SJ Nesbitt, M Bronzati, FM Dalla Vecchia… - Nature, 2020‏ - nature.com
Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to evolve powered flight and comprised one of the main
evolutionary radiations in terrestrial ecosystems of the Mesozoic era (approximately 252–66 …

[ספר][B] Vertebrate skeletal histology and paleohistology

V de Buffrénil, AJ de Ricqlès, L Zylberberg, K Padian - 2021‏ - books.google.com
Vertebrate Skeletal Histology and Paleohistology summarizes decades of research into the
biology and biological meaning of hard tissues, in both living and extinct vertebrates. In …

[HTML][HTML] Constraints on the timescale of animal evolutionary history

MJ Benton, PCJ Donoghue, RJ Asher, M Friedman… - 2015‏ - palaeo-electronica.org
Dating the tree of life is a core endeavor in evolutionary biology. Rates of evolution are
fundamental to nearly every evolutionary model and process. Rates need dates. There is …

New reptile shows dinosaurs and pterosaurs evolved among diverse precursors

RT Müller, MD Ezcurra, MS Garcia, FL Agnolín… - Nature, 2023‏ - nature.com
Dinosaurs and pterosaurs have remarkable diversity and disparity through most of the
Mesozoic Era,–. Soon after their origins, these reptiles diversified into a number of long-lived …

The earliest bird-line archosaurs and the assembly of the dinosaur body plan

SJ Nesbitt, RJ Butler, MD Ezcurra, PM Barrett… - Nature, 2017‏ - nature.com
The relationship between dinosaurs and other reptiles is well established,,,, but the
sequence of acquisition of dinosaurian features has been obscured by the scarcity of fossils …

Scleromochlus and the early evolution of Pterosauromorpha

D Foffa, EM Dunne, SJ Nesbitt, RJ Butler, NC Fraser… - Nature, 2022‏ - nature.com
Pterosaurs, the first vertebrates to evolve powered flight, were key components of Mesozoic
terrestrial ecosystems from their sudden appearance in the Late Triassic until their demise at …