Brawn before brains in placental mammals after the end-Cretaceous extinction

OC Bertrand, SL Shelley, TE Williamson, JR Wible… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Mammals are the most encephalized vertebrates, with the largest brains relative to body
size. Placental mammals have particularly enlarged brains, with expanded neocortices for …

The stapes of stem and extinct Marsupialia: implications for the ancestral condition

C Gaillard, RDE MacPhee… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This paper describes, for the first time, the stapedes of several non-marsupial species of the
metatherian clade Sparassodonta (Sipalocyon gracilis, Arctodictis sinclairi, and Borhyaena …

[LIVRE][B] Molecular Evolution of Tooth Genes in the Degeneration and Loss of Enamel and Teeth in Whales and Pangolins

JG Randall - 2023 - search.proquest.com
Abstract Changes in dental morphology have profound consequences on the ecology of
species and the niches they are adapted to. Here, changes in teeth, specifically in the main …