The rise of the Evo-Devo field and the development of multidisciplinary research tools at
various levels of biological organization have led to a growing interest in researching for …

Habitat usage comprises interactions between ecological parameters and organismal
capacities, and the selective pressures that ultimately determine the outcome of such …

The earliest known neodiapsid Orovenator mayorum from the lower Permian of Oklahoma is
redescribed using high‐resolution μ CT, revealing remarkable details of the skull anatomy …

Fossil identification practices have a profound effect on our interpretation of the past
because these identifications form the basis for downstream analyses. Therefore, well …

Osteoderms, also called dermal armour, often play a role in predator defence. The presence
of osteoderms is highly irregularly distributed across the squamate phylogeny and they have …

Sphaerodactyl geckos comprise five genera distributed across Central and South America
and the Caribbean. We estimated phylogenetic relationships among sphaerodactyl genera …

The tree of life is highly asymmetrical in its clade wise species richness, and this has often
been attributed to variation in diversification rates either across time or lineages. Variations …

Alopoglossidae is a family of Neotropical lizards composed of 23 species allocated in two
genera (Alopoglossus and Ptychoglossus). There is a lack of knowledge about the …

Phenotypictraits have been shown to evolve in response to variation in the environment.
However, the evolutionary processes underlying the emergence of phenotypic diversity can …

Vertebrate endocasts are widely used in the fields of paleoneurology and comparative
neuroanatomy. The validity of endocranial studies is dependent upon the extent to which an …