During the ongoing biodiversity crisis, captive conservation and breeding programs offer a
refuge for species to persist and provide source populations for reintroduction efforts …

The breeding of threatened species in captivity for release is a central tool in conservation
biology. Given gloomy predictions for biodiversity trends in the Anthropocene, captive …

Metriorhynchoid crocodylians represent the pinnacle of marine specialization within
Archosauria. Not only were they a major component of the Middle Jurassic–Early …

Background Crocodilians have dominated predatory niches at the water-land interface for
over 85 million years. Like their ancestors, living species show substantial variation in their …

Gnawing from animal species is a common alteration to human bones and comes under
frequent forensic analysis in order to separate these effects from human-caused trauma and …

Acyl-CoA: glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase (GPAT) and acyl-CoA: 1-acyl-glycerol-3-
phosphate acyltransferase (AGPAT) are involved in the de novo synthesis of triacylglycerol …

Jaw muscles are key components of the head and critical to testing hypotheses of soft‐tissue
homology, skull function, and evolution. Dinosaurs evolved an extraordinary diversity of …

Three-dimensional static equilibrium analysis of the forces generated by the jaw
musculature of the horn shark Heterodontus francisci was used to theoretically estimate the …

A facilitative transport system exists on the blood–brain barrier (BBB) that has been tacitly
assumed to be a path for glutamate entry to the brain. However, glutamate is a non-essential …

We compare the characteristics of the armored scales of three large fish, namely the
Arapaima gigas (arapaima), Latimeria chalumnae (coelacanth), and Atractosteus spatula …