The rapidly expanding interest in, and availability of, digital tomography data to visualize
casts of the vertebrate endocranial cavity housing the brain (endocasts) presents new …

The cetacean nose presents a unique suite of anatomical modifications. Key among these is
posterior movement of the external nares from the tip of the rostrum to the top of the head …

This is the first textbook of Virtual Anthropology, the new science that combines elements
from fields as diverse as anthropology, medicine, statistics, computing, scientific …

Comparative morphology, dealing with the diversity of form and shape, and functional
morphology, the study of the relationship between the structure and the function of an …

We generated a digital cranial endocast (infilling of the braincase) of Vincelestes
neuquenianus, a Cretaceous theriiform mammal from Argentina, to achieve two goals. First …

Extant baleen whales (Mysticeti) have a deciduous foetal dentition, but are edentulous at
birth. Fossils reveal that the earliest mysticetes possessed an adult dentition. Aetiocetids, a …

The cerebellar floccular and parafloccular lobes are housed in fossae of the periotic region
of the skull of different vertebrates. Experimental evidence indicates that the lobes integrate …

Fossils of mammals and their extinct relatives among cynodonts give evidence of correlated
transformations affecting olfaction as well as mastication, head movement, and ventilation …

The internal nasal skeleton in Monodelphis domestica, the gray short-tailed opossum,
primarily supports olfactory and respiratory epithelia, the vomeronasal organ, and the nasal …

A digital cranial endocast of the specimen UFRGS-PV-1043-T, Brasilitherium riograndensis,
was obtained from high-resolution computed tomography (μCT) scan images. This taxon is a …