Morphology forms the most fundamental level of data in vertebrate palaeontology because it
is through interpretations of morphology that taxa are identified, creating the basis for broad …

The herbivorous sauropod dinosaurs of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods were the
largest terrestrial animals ever, surpassing the largest herbivorous mammals by an order of …

Interpreting key ecological parameters, such as diet, of extinct organisms without the benefit
of direct observation or explicit fossil evidence poses a formidable challenge for …

Despite dominating biodiversity in the Mesozoic, dinosaurs were not speciose. Oviparity
constrained even gigantic dinosaurs to less than 15 kg at birth; growth through multiple …

The defining masterwork on the evolution of reptiles. Over 300 million years ago, an early
land vertebrate developed an egg that contained the embryo in an amnion, allowing it to be …

Stegosaur tracks were unknown until the identification of Deltapodus more than 20 years
ago. Currently, the Iberian Peninsula, especially Teruel Province, is one of the areas …

The famous bone beds of the Morrison Formation, formed one hundred and fifty million
years ago and running from Wyoming down through the red rock region of the American …

Although diplodocoid sauropods from Africa and the Americas are well known, their
European record remains largely neglected. Here we redescribe Dinheirosaurus …

Since 2002 a number of sites containing stegosaurian remains (bones and tracks) have
been discovered in the Villar del Arzobispo Formation (Tithonian–Berriasian) in the Province …

Eurypoda, the major radiation of armoured dinosaurs, comprises the ankylosaurs and their
sister group, the stegosaurs. As the earliest-branching major clade of ornithischian …