Terrestrial Origin of Viviparity in Mesozoic Marine Reptiles Indicated by Early Triassic Embryonic Fossils

Limited Oxygen Availability In Utero May Constrain the Evolution of Live Birth in Reptiles

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Experimental evidence of early costs of reproduction in conspecific viviparous and oviparous lizards

(2012) J. BLEU et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Altitudinal variation in egg retention and rates of embryonic development in oviparous Zootoca vivipara fits predictions from the cold-climate model on the evolution of viviparity

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Evidence for taphonomic size bias in the Dinosaur Park Formation (Campanian, Alberta), a model Mesozoic terrestrial alluvial‐paralic system

(2012) Caleb Marshall Brown et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

The oldest known amniotic embryos suggest viviparity in mesosaurs

(2012) Graciela Piñeiro et al.   HISTORICAL BIOLOGY

A gravid lizard from the Cretaceous of China and the early history of squamate viviparity

(2011) Yuan Wang et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Viviparity and K-Selected Life History in a Mesozoic Marine Plesiosaur (Reptilia, Sauropterygia)

(2011) F. R. O'Keefe et al.   SCIENCE

Cretaceous choristoderan reptiles gave birth to live young

(2010) Qiang Ji et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Global analysis of thermal tolerance and latitude in ectotherms

(2010) J. M. Sunday et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Excavation Yields Tantalizing Hints of Earliest Marine Reptiles

(2010) R. Stone   SCIENCE

New Protocetid Whale from the Middle Eocene of Pakistan: Birth on Land, Precocial Development, and Sexual Dimorphism

(2009) Philip D. Gingerich et al.   PLoS One

Implications of flexible-shelled eggs in a Cretaceous choristoderan reptile

(2009) L.-H. Hou et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Molecular phylogeny and divergence dates for Australasian elapids and sea snakes (hydrophiinae): evidence from seven genes for rapid evolutionary radiations

(2008) K. L. SANDERS et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Live birth in the Devonian period

(2008) John A. Long et al.   NATURE