Investigating the utility of applying physiological modeling tools to extinct vertebrates
The last two decades have seen a remarkable increase in the known diversity of basal avialans and their paravian relatives. The lack of resolution in the relationships of these groups combined with attributing the behavior of specialized taxa to the …
Tyrannosaurid dinosaurs had large preserved leg muscle attachments and low rotational inertia relative to their body mass, indicating that they could turn more quickly than other large theropods. To compare turning capability in theropods, we …
Body shape is a fundamental expression of organismal biology, but its quantitative reconstruction in fossil vertebrates is rare. Due to the absence of fossilized soft tissue evidence, the functional consequences of basal paravian body shape and its …
Theropods form a taxonomically and morphologically diverse group of dinosaurs that include extant birds. Inferred relationships between theropod clades are complex and have changed dramatically over the past thirty years with the emergence of …
A new specimen of *Supersaurus vivianae* is described, providing additional information about the osteology of *Supersaurus*. The single *Supersaurus* individual that the WDC quarry produced allows a reexamination of elements referred to …
We describe the tenth skeletal specimen of the Upper Jurassic Archaeopterygidae. The almost complete and well-preserved skeleton is assigned to *Archaeopteryx siemensii* Dames, 1897 and provides significant new information on the osteology of the …