Palaeontological evidence reveals convergent evolution of intervertebral joint types in amniotes

Structural, functional, and physiological signals in ichthyosaur vertebral centrum microanatomy and histology

(2018) Alexandra Houssaye et al.   GEODIVERSITAS

Caudal autotomy as anti-predatory behaviour in Palaeozoic reptiles

(2018) A. R. H. LeBlanc et al.   Scientific Reports

Avian tail ontogeny, pygostyle formation, and interpretation of juvenile Mesozoic specimens

(2018) Dana J. Rashid et al.   Scientific Reports

A Triassic stem turtle with an edentulous beak

(2018) Chun Li et al.   NATURE

Soft-tissue evidence for homeothermy and crypsis in a Jurassic ichthyosaur

(2018) Johan Lindgren et al.   NATURE

Archaeorhynchuspreserving significant soft tissue including probable fossilized lungs

(2018) Xiaoli Wang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Fossilization transforms vertebrate hard tissue proteins into N-heterocyclic polymers

(2018) Jasmina Wiemann et al.   Nature Communications

Researchers close in on ancient dinosaur proteins

(2017) Robert F. Service   SCIENCE

Reconstructing Carotenoid-Based and Structural Coloration in Fossil Skin

(2016) Maria E. McNamara et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Vertebral Development in Paleozoic and Mesozoic Tetrapods Revealed by Paleohistological Data

(2016) Marylène Danto et al.   PLoS One

Early development of the vertebral column

(2016) Martin Scaal   SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Heart fossilization is possible and informs the evolution of cardiac outflow tract in vertebrates

(2016) Lara Maldanis et al.   eLife

In Vivo Mouse Intervertebral Disc Degeneration Model Based on a New Histological Classification

(2016) Takashi Ohnishi et al.   PLoS One

A Middle Triassic stem-turtle and the evolution of the turtle body plan

(2015) Rainer R. Schoch et al.   NATURE

Evolutionary origin of the turtle skull

(2015) G. S. Bever et al.   NATURE

The cranial anatomy of Chinese placodonts and the phylogeny of Placodontia (Diapsida: Sauropterygia)

(2015) James M. Neenan et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Ancient biomolecules: Their origins, fossilization, and role in revealing the history of life

(2014) Derek E. G. Briggs et al.   BIOESSAYS

Coming together is a beginning: The making of an intervertebral disc

(2014) Wilson C. W. Chan et al.   BIRTH DEFECTS RESEARCH PART C-EMBRYO TODAY-REVIEWS

Evidence of Spondyloarthropathy in the Spine of a Phytosaur (Reptilia: Archosauriformes) from the Late Triassic of Halberstadt, Germany

(2014) Florian Witzmann et al.   PLoS One

The Enigmatic Marine Reptile Nanchangosaurus from the Lower Triassic of Hubei, China and the Phylogenetic Affinities of Hupehsuchia

(2014) Xiao-hong Chen et al.   PLoS One

Turtle origins: insights from phylogenetic retrofitting and molecular scaffolds

(2013) M. S. Y. Lee   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Bone histology of aquatic reptiles: what does it tell us about secondary adaptation to an aquatic life?

(2012) Alexandra Houssaye   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Avian intervertebral disc arises from rostral sclerotome and lacks a nucleus pulposus: Implications for evolution of the vertebrate disc

(2012) Bradley J. Bruggeman et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS

Characterization of the annulus fibrosus-vertebral body interface: identification of new structural features

(2012) Y. S. Nosikova et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Diversity of intervertebral disc cells: phenotype and function

(2012) Girish Pattappa et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Soft Tissue Preservation in Terrestrial Mesozoic Vertebrates

(2011) Mary Higby Schweitzer   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Homeotic effects, somitogenesis and the evolution of vertebral numbers in recent and fossil amniotes

(2010) J. Muller et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Vertebral Pathology in an Ornithopod Dinosaur: A Hemivertebra inDysalotosaurus lettowvorbeckifrom the Jurassic of Tanzania

(2008) Florian Witzmann et al.   Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology

An ancestral turtle from the Late Triassic of southwestern China

(2008) Chun Li et al.   NATURE