Celebrating dinosaurs: their behaviour, evolution, growth, and physiology

PJ Currie - Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2023 - cdnsciencepub.com
Dinosaurs have attracted varying degrees of scientific and public interest since their initial
description in 1824. Interest has steadily increased, however, since the late 1960s when the …

Osteology of the two-fingered oviraptorid Oksoko avarsan (Theropoda: Oviraptorosauria)

GF Funston - Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Oviraptorosaurs are among the most diverse and best-known extinct theropod groups. Their
bizarre anatomy and their social and reproductive behaviour are now well understood …

New caenagnathid (Theropoda: Oviraptorosauria) dinosaur specimens from middle and upper Campanian strata of West Texas

SL Wick, TM Lehman, JD Fortner - Geobios, 2024 - Elsevier
New caenagnathid dinosaur specimens from the upper Aguja Formation of West Texas
comprise the most complete examples yet described from southern North America. Two …

A new oviraptorosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Miaogou Formation of western Inner Mongolia, China

M Hao, Z Li, Z Wang, S Wang, F Ma, JL King, R Pei… - Cretaceous …, 2025 - Elsevier
A new oviraptorosaur, Yuanyanglong bainian gen. et sp. nov. is described based on two
specimens recovered from the Lower Cretaceous Miaogou Formation of the Maortu locality …

The osteology of the wrist of Heyuannia huangi (Oviraptorosauria) and its implications for the wrist folding mechanism

R Qiu, Y Du, Z Huang, X Zhu, X Yang, Q Wang, X Wang - PeerJ, 2024 - peerj.com
The wrist of extant birds is highly specialized which permits folding of the forelimb in order to
protect the pennaceous feathers when they are relaxed. This mechanism is absent in most …

Functional morphology of the oviraptorosaurian cranium

LE Meade - 2023 - etheses.bham.ac.uk
Oviraptorosaurians were a group of theropod dinosaurs that reached high diversity in the
Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 million years ago). Later diverging members evolved a …