The whole‐body (tachymetabolic) endothermy seen in modern birds and mammals is long
held to have evolved independently in each group, a reasonable assumption when it was …

Catastrophic ecosystem disruption in the late Permian period resulted in the greatest loss of
biodiversity in Earth's history, the Permian-Triassic mass extinction (PTME). 1 The dominant …

Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to evolve powered flight 1 and comprised one of the
main evolutionary radiations in terrestrial ecosystems of the Mesozoic era (approximately …

The early evolution of archosauromorphs during the Permo-Triassic constitutes an excellent
empirical case study to shed light on evolutionary radiations in deep time and the timing and …

Dinosaurs and pterosaurs have remarkable diversity and disparity through most of the
Mesozoic Era,–. Soon after their origins, these reptiles diversified into a number of long-lived …

Dating the tree of life is a core endeavor in evolutionary biology. Rates of evolution are
fundamental to nearly every evolutionary model and process. Rates need dates. There is …

The relationship between dinosaurs and other reptiles is well established,,,, but the
sequence of acquisition of dinosaurian features has been obscured by the scarcity of fossils …

Proterosuchidae represents the oldest substantial diversification of Archosauromorpha and
plays a key role in understanding the biotic recovery after the end-Permian mass extinction …

Vertebrate Skeletal Histology and Paleohistology summarizes decades of research into the
biology and biological meaning of hard tissues, in both living and extinct vertebrates. In …

One of the key faunal transitions in Earth history occurred after the Permo-Triassic mass
extinction (ca 252.2 Ma), when the previously obscure archosauromorphs (which include …