Pterosaurs are an extinct group of Mesozoic flying reptiles, whose fossil record extends from
approximately 210 to 66 million years ago. They were integral components of continental …

Determining the diet of an extinct species is paramount in any attempt to reconstruct its
paleoecology. Because the distribution and mechanical properties of food items may impact …

Considerations of primate behavioral evolution often proceed by assuming the ecological
and competitive milieus of particular taxa via their relative exploitation of gross food types …

Almost nothing is known about the diets of bathypelagic fishes, but functional morphology
can provide useful tools to infer ecology. Here we quantify variation in jaw and tooth …

We studied the feeding ecology of California Kingsnakes (Lampropeltis californiae) based
on stomach contents of 2,662 museum specimens, 90 published records, and 92 …

Several primate radiations exhibit dental adaptations that enable them to gain access to
seeds embedded in well‐protected fruit. To a database drawn from published sources in …

Closely related species are often assumed to be functionally similar. Phylogenetic
information is thus widely used to infer functional diversity and assembly of communities. In …

Trophic resource partitioning is one of the main ecological mechanisms of adaptive
radiation. The Garra is a highly specialized periphyton feeder that has widened jaws …

An understanding of how extinct animals functioned underpins our understanding of past
evolutionary events, including adaptive radiations, and the role of functional innovation and …

A fundamental axiom that underlies evolutionary biomechanics maintains that natural
selection has adapted skeletal and dental morphologies to facilitate function in intelligible …