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Paleogene Fossil Birds
This second, completely revised edition of “Paleogene fossil birds” gives a comprehensive, updated overview of the avian fossil record from a...
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Connectivity Patterns of the Hindlimb Musculoskeletal System in Living and Fossil Diving Birds
To study the hindlimb connectivity patterns of aquatic birds, we compared the musculoskeletal multi-networks of non-divers (Numididae and Anatidae),...
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Palaeognathous Birds
The Tinamiformes were long considered to be the sister group of the flightless palaeognathous birds, which were classified as “ratites”. However,...
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Origin and Evolution of Birds
Archaeopteryx lived about 155 million years ago and was a descendent of a long line of dinosaur and theropod ancestors. In this chapter, I review...
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Fascinating Natural and Biological Traits of Birds
The natural history of birds is summarized. Account of what contemporary birds are, when and how they came to be what they are, and why and how they...
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Birds
The vertebrate Bauplan has undergone a very particular evolution in the class of Aves. Irrespective of the enormous variation in colour, plumage,...
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Fossil Hunting in the Badlands of South Dakota by Harold Rollin Wanless, 1923
This is an insightful first-hand 1923 summary by Harold Rollin Wanless of his 1920–1922 field seasons in the White River Badlands of South Dakota. He...
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Diet of Mesozoic toothed birds (Longipterygidae) inferred from quantitative analysis of extant avian diet proxies
BackgroundBirds are key indicator species in extant ecosystems, and thus we would expect extinct birds to provide insights into the nature of ancient...
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Online repositories of photographs and videos provide insights into the evolution of skilled hindlimb movements in birds
The ability to manipulate objects with limbs has evolved repeatedly among land tetrapods. Several selective forces have been proposed to explain the...
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Epigenetics, Evolution and Development of Birds
In this chapter, we summarise the contribution of research in birds to the field of epigenetics and development, both from the Waddingtonian and...
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Abundance does not predict extinction risk in the fossil record of marine plankton
A major premise of ecological neutral theory is that population size is inversely related to extinction risk. This idea is central to modern...
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The Fossil Record of the Lymnaeidae: Revisiting a 200-Myr-Long Story of Success
Here, I present a review of the global pre-Pleistocene fresh- to brackish-water fossil record of the gastropod family Lymnaeidae based on a thorough...
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Convergence of Aquatic Feeding Modes in the Sauropsida (Crocodiles, Birds, Lizards, Snakes and, Turtles)
The Sauropsida includes the extant crocodiles, birds, turtles, lizards and snakes. With roughly 30,000 described species, it is not only the largest...
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A phasianid bird from the Pleistocene of Tainan: the very first avian fossil from Taiwan
Taiwan accommodates more than 600 avian species, including about 30 endemic ones. As yet, however, no fossil birds have been scientifically...
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Biogeography of Neotropical Meliaceae: geological connections, fossil and molecular evidence revisited
We here provide, first, a general introduction into the woody angiosperm family Meliaceae, including updated numbers of the genera and species found...
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Wading In: Introduction to Fish-Birds
In this introductory chapter, we explain why the first Europeans to encounter penguins at sea, back in the 1500s, were not all that far off in their...
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Low morphological disparity and decelerated rate of limb size evolution close to the origin of birds
The origin of birds from theropod dinosaurs involves many changes in musculoskeletal anatomy and epidermal structures, including multiple instances...
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A novel approach to exploring the dark genome and its application to map** of the vertebrate virus fossil record
BackgroundGenomic regions that remain poorly understood, often referred to as the dark genome, contain a variety of functionally relevant and...
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The “Diahot Tooth” is a Miocene rhinocerotid fossil brought by humans to New Caledonia
The “Diahot Tooth” is an isolated postcanine tooth of a large herbivorous mammal, discovered in the Diahot region of northern New Caledonia in 1875....
