Marine and terrestrial animals show a mosaic of lineage extinctions and diversifications
during the J urassic–C retaceous transition. However, despite its potential importance in …

Fossils of vertebrates have been found in great abundance in the continental and marine
early Late Cretaceous sediments of Southeastern Morocco for more than 50 years. About 80 …

Abstract The Late Cretaceous was a time of tremendous global change, as the final stages
of the Age of Dinosaurs were shaped by climate and sea level fluctuations and witness to …

The fossil record is a unique source of evidence for important evolutionary phenomena such
as transitions between major clades. Frustratingly, relevant fossils are still comparatively …

The L ate J urassic to E arly C retaceous interval represents a time of environmental
upheaval and cataclysmic events, combined with disruptions to terrestrial and marine …

A pterosaur bone bed with at least 47 individuals (wing spans: 0.65–2.35 m) of a new
species is reported from southern Brazil from an interdunal lake deposit of a Cretaceous …

Bio-inspired designs have been serving as a great inspiration for Aerodynamists for the past
several decades. The biological features of each species have evolved through generations …

Pterosaurs, the first vertebrates to evolve active flight, lived between 210 and 66 million
years ago. They were important components of Mesozoic ecosystems, and reconstructing …

Assessing the quality of the fossil record is notoriously hard, and many recent attempts have
used sampling proxies that can be questioned. For example, counts of geological formations …

Bats (order Chiroptera) are the only mammals capable of powered flight, and this may be an
important factor behind their rapid diversification into the over 1400 species that exist today …