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 …

Museum specimens serve as the bedrock of systematic and taxonomic research and provide
the basis for repeatability or reinterpretation of preserved aspects of phenotypes. Specimens …

Studying the origin of avian thermoregulation is complicated by a lack of reliable methods for
measuring body temperatures in extinct dinosaurs. Evidence from bone histology and stable …

Raman micro-spectroscopy is a non-destructive and non-contact analytical technique that
combines microscopy and spectroscopy, thus providing a potential for non-invasive and in …

eLife digest About 50 species of birds on the planet today do not belong to the same group
as the other 10,000 currently in existence. Known as the paleognaths, this small clade …

Raman spectroscopy has been widely used in micropaleontology and organic geochemistry
to identify carbonaceous materials and evaluate their thermal maturity in fossils or …

Raman spectroscopic analyses of thermally altered organic materials can be used to assess
the paleothermometry of the sedimentary deposits. Although this technique has been widely …

Abstract Found in the Upper Jurassic outcrops of Lourinhã, Portugal, and first published in
1997, the Paimogo dinosaur egg clutch is one of Portugal's most remarkable fossils, with …

The geochemical signatures of dinosaur eggshells represent well-established proxies in
paleoenvironmental and paleobiological research. The variable sampling procedures …

Archaeologists and ecologists have increasingly developed new tools to help us understand
the character of past ecosystems as well as human influences upon them. This study …