In the last decade, studies integrating palaeontology, embryology and experimental
developmental biology have markedly altered our homological understanding of the …

Bite forces play a key role in animal ecology: they affect mating behaviour, fighting success,
and the ability to feed. Although feeding habits of arthropods have a significant ecological …

Darwin's finches are a classic example of adaptive radiation, exemplified by their adaptive
and functional beak morphologies. To quantify their form, we carry out a morphometric …

Atta leaf-cutter ants are the prime herbivore in the Neotropics: differently sized foragers
harvest plant material to grow a fungus as a crop. Efficient foraging involves complex …

Movement is integral to animal life, and most animal movement is actuated by the same
engine: striated muscle. Muscle input is typically mediated by skeletal elements, resulting in …

I present a Bayesian phylogenetic predictive modelling (PPM) framework that allows the
prediction of muscle parameters (physiological cross-sectional area, A Phys) in extinct …

Theropod dinosaurs were relatively scarce in the Late Cretaceous ecosystems of southeast
Brazil. Instead, hypercarnivorous crocodyliforms known as baurusuchids were abundant …

Functional trade-offs can affect patterns of morphological and ecological evolution as well as
the magnitude of morphological changes through evolutionary time. Using morpho …

Darwin's finches are a classic example of adaptive radiation, a process by which multiple
ecologically distinct species rapidly evolve from a single ancestor. Such evolutionary …

Bite force can provide an insight into the feeding biomechanics and ecology of vertebrates.
There has been an increasing interest in bite force in birds with data being collected using …