The locomotion of extinct secondarily aquatic tetrapods

Functional assessment of morphological homoplasy in stem-gnathostomes

(2021) Humberto G. Ferrón et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

An articulated Late Triassic (Norian) thalattosauroid from Alaska and ecomorphology and extinction of Thalattosauria

(2020) Patrick S. Druckenmiller et al.   Scientific Reports

Tail-propelled aquatic locomotion in a theropod dinosaur

(2020) Nizar Ibrahim et al.   NATURE

Multibody dynamics analysis ( MDA ) as a numerical modelling tool to reconstruct the function and palaeobiology of extinct organisms

(2020) Stephan Lautenschlager   PALAEONTOLOGY

Ancient life and moving fluids

(2020) Brandt M. Gibson et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Computational Fluid Dynamics Suggests Ecological Diversification among Stem-Gnathostomes

(2020) Humberto G. Ferrón et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Evolution of ecospace occupancy by Mesozoic marine tetrapods

(2020) Jane C. Reeves et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

The first record of a nearly complete choristodere (Reptilia: Diapsida) from the Upper Jurassic of Hebei Province, People’s Republic of China

(2019) Ryoko Matsumoto et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

Reverse-engineering the locomotion of a stem amniote

(2019) John A. Nyakatura et al.   NATURE

Evolutionary structure and timing of major habitat shifts in Crocodylomorpha

(2019) Eric W. Wilberg et al.   Scientific Reports

Effects of body plan evolution on the hydrodynamic drag and energy requirements of swimming in ichthyosaurs

(2019) Susana Gutarra et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Functional morphology and hydrodynamics of plesiosaur necks: Does size matter?

(2019) Pernille V. Troelsen et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Large-scale molecular phylogeny, morphology, divergence-time estimation, and the fossil record of advanced caenophidian snakes (Squamata: Serpentes)

(2019) Hussam Zaher et al.   PLoS One

Scaling of swimming performance in baleen whales

(2019) William T. Gough et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Thrust generation during steady swimming and acceleration from rest in anguilliform swimmers

(2019) Kevin T. Du Clos et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

The phylogeny of desmostylians revisited: proposal of new clades based on robust phylogenetic hypotheses

(2019) Kumiko Matsui et al.   PeerJ

Hematological convergence between Mesozoic marine reptiles (Sauropterygia) and extant aquatic amniotes elucidates diving adaptations in plesiosaurs

(2019) Corinna V. Fleischle et al.   PeerJ

A new spinosaurid theropod (Dinosauria: Megalosauroidea) from the upper Barremian of Vallibona, Spain: Implications for spinosaurid diversity in the Early Cretaceous of the Iberian Peninsula

(2019) Elisabete Malafaia et al.   CRETACEOUS RESEARCH

On the diverse roles of fluid dynamic drag in animal swimming and flying

(2018) R. Godoy-Diana et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Land to sea transitions in vertebrates: the dynamics of colonization

(2018) Geerat J. Vermeij et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

The role of miniaturization in the evolution of the mammalian jaw and middle ear

(2018) Stephan Lautenschlager et al.   NATURE

A buoyancy, balance and stability challenge to the hypothesis of a semi-aquatic Spinosaurus Stromer, 1915 (Dinosauria: Theropoda)

(2018) Donald M. Henderson   PeerJ

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

(2018) Johan Lindgren et al.   NATURE

Control surfaces of aquatic vertebrates: active and passive design and function

(2017) Frank E. Fish et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

First crocodile-tailed lizard (Squamata: Pan-Shinisaurus) from the Paleogene of Europe

(2017) Krister T. Smith   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Computational fluid dynamics as a tool for testing functional and ecological hypotheses in fossil taxa

(2017) Imran A. Rahman   PALAEONTOLOGY

The four-flipper swimming method of plesiosaurs enabled efficient and effective locomotion

(2017) Luke E. Muscutt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A new polycotylid plesiosaur with extensive soft tissue preservation from the early Late Cretaceous of northeast Mexico

(2017) Eberhard Frey et al.   Boletin de la Sociedad Geologica Mexicana

Mosasauroid phylogeny under multiple phylogenetic methods provides new insights on the evolution of aquatic adaptations in the group

(2017) Tiago R. Simões et al.   PLoS One

Muroid rodent phylogenetics: 900-species tree reveals increasing diversification rates

(2017) Scott J. Steppan et al.   PLoS One

A Short-Snouted, Middle Triassic Phytosaur and its Implications for the Morphological Evolution and Biogeography of Phytosauria

(2017) Michelle R. Stocker et al.   Scientific Reports

A new pipid frog from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia and early evolution of crown-group Pipidae

(2016) Raúl O. Gómez   CRETACEOUS RESEARCH

Development of a Fast-Swimming Dolphin Robot Capable of Leaping

(2016) Junzhi Yu et al.   IEEE-ASME TRANSACTIONS ON MECHATRONICS

The sclerotic ring of squamates: an evo-devo-eco perspective

(2016) Jade B. Atkins et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Ecomorphological diversifications of Mesozoic marine reptiles: the roles of ecological opportunity and extinction

(2016) Thomas L. Stubbs et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Extinction of fish-shaped marine reptiles associated with reduced evolutionary rates and global environmental volatility

(2016) Valentin Fischer et al.   Nature Communications

A large aberrant stem ichthyosauriform indicating early rise and demise of ichthyosauromorphs in the wake of the end-Permian extinction

(2016) Da-Yong Jiang et al.   Scientific Reports

Functional Segregation within the Muscles of Aquatic Propulsion in the Asiatic Water Monitor (Varanus salvator)

(2016) Bruce A. Young et al.   Frontiers in Physiology

The unexpected survival of an ancient lineage of anseriform birds into the Neogene of Australia: the youngest record of Presbyornithidae

(2016) Vanesa L. De Pietri et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Reconstructing the past: methods and techniques for the digital restoration of fossils

(2016) Stephan Lautenschlager   Royal Society Open Science

A New Basal Salamandroid (Amphibia, Urodela) from the Late Jurassic of Qinglong, Hebei Province, China

(2016) Jia Jia et al.   PLoS One

Hydrodynamic role of longitudinal dorsal ridges in a leatherback turtle swimming

(2016) Kyeongtae Bang et al.   Scientific Reports

Trophic convergence drives morphological convergence in marine tetrapods

(2015) N. P. Kelley et al.   Biology Letters

A Review of the Fossil Record of Turtles of the CladesPlatychelyidaeandDortokidae

(2015) Edwin Cadena et al.   Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History

The youngest record of metriorhynchid crocodylomorphs, with implications for the extinction of Thalattosuchia

(2015) Alfio A. Chiarenza et al.   CRETACEOUS RESEARCH

Gene loss in keratinization programs accompanies adaptation of cetacean skin to aquatic lifestyle

(2015) Ji Won Oh et al.   EXPERIMENTAL DERMATOLOGY

Simulations of Unsteady Aquatic Locomotion: From Unsteadiness in Straight-Line Swimming to Fast-Starts

(2015) Iman Borazjani   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

A species-level phylogeny of the Cretaceous Hesperornithiformes (Aves: Ornithuromorpha): implications for body size evolution amongst the earliest diving birds

(2015) Alyssa Bell et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

Phylogeny of the Ichthyopterygia incorporating recent discoveries from South China

(2015) Cheng Ji et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

A new unusual waterbird (Aves, ?Suliformes) from the Eocene of Kazakhstan

(2015) Evgeniy A. Zvonok et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

The first soft-shelled turtle from the Jehol Biota of China

(2015) Lu Li et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

A phylogenomic analysis of turtles

(2015) Nicholas G. Crawford et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Transition of Eocene Whales from Land to Sea: Evidence from Bone Microstructure

(2015) Alexandra Houssaye et al.   PLoS One

Hybridization masks speciation in the evolutionary history of the Galápagos marine iguana

(2015) Amy MacLeod et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Cambrian cinctan echinoderms shed light on feeding in the ancestral deuterostome

(2015) Imran A. Rahman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evolutionary innovation and ecology in marine tetrapods from the Triassic to the Anthropocene

(2015) N. P. Kelley et al.   SCIENCE

First Tupinambinae teiid (Squamata, Teiidae) from the Palaeogene of South America

(2015) S. Brizuela et al.   HISTORICAL BIOLOGY

Hippos stem from the longest sequence of terrestrial cetartiodactyl evolution in Africa

(2015) Fabrice Lihoreau et al.   Nature Communications

Computer Simulations Imply Forelimb-Dominated Underwater Flight in Plesiosaurs

(2015) Shiqiu Liu et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

The invisible fish: hydrodynamic constraints for predator-prey interaction in fossil fish Saurichthys compared to recent actinopterygians

(2015) I. Kogan et al.   Biology Open

Estimating cranial musculoskeletal constraints in theropod dinosaurs

(2015) Stephan Lautenschlager   Royal Society Open Science

Brown Adipose Tissue in Cetacean Blubber

(2015) Osamu Hashimoto et al.   PLoS One

Locomotion pattern and trunk musculoskeletal architecture among Urodela

(2014) Ayano Omura et al.   ACTA ZOOLOGICA

Systematics and evolution of the Pan-Alcidae (Aves, Charadriiformes)

(2014) N. Adam Smith et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Measurement of hydrodynamic force generation by swimming dolphins using bubble DPIV

(2014) F. E. Fish et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Aquatic Locomotor Kinematics of the Eastern Water Dragon (Intellagama lesueurii)

(2014) Jeremy L. Ringma et al.   JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY

Skin pigmentation provides evidence of convergent melanism in extinct marine reptiles

(2014) Johan Lindgren et al.   NATURE

A basal ichthyosauriform with a short snout from the Lower Triassic of China

(2014) Ryosuke Motani et al.   NATURE

Scaling macroscopic aquatic locomotion

(2014) Mattia Gazzola et al.   Nature Physics

Transition between terrestrial-submerged walking and swimming revealed by Early Permian amphibian trackways and a new proposal for the nomenclature of compound trace fossils

(2014) Fabio M. Petti et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

A New Look at Ichthyosaur Long Bone Microanatomy and Histology: Implications for Their Adaptation to an Aquatic Life

(2014) Alexandra Houssaye et al.   PLoS One

Gradual adaptation of bone structure to aquatic lifestyle in extinct sloths from Peru

(2014) E. Amson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Flipper-driven terrestrial locomotion of a sea turtle-inspired robot

(2013) Nicole Mazouchova et al.   Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

The Eocene Juncitarsus – its phylogenetic position and significance for the evolution and higher-level affinities of flamingos and grebes

(2013) Gerald Mayr   COMPTES RENDUS PALEVOL

Physical drivers of mosasaur evolution

(2013) Michael J. Polcyn et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Microanatomical and Histological Features in the Long Bones of Mosasaurine Mosasaurs (Reptilia, Squamata) – Implications for Aquatic Adaptation and Growth Rates

(2013) Alexandra Houssaye et al.   PLoS One

Hydrodynamic Characteristics of the Sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus) and Swordfish (Xiphias gladius) in Gliding Postures at Their Cruise Speeds

(2013) Woong Sagong et al.   PLoS One

Soft tissue preservation in a fossil marine lizard with a bilobed tail fin

(2013) Johan Lindgren et al.   Nature Communications

Neutral buoyancy is optimal to minimize the cost of transport in horizontally swimming seals

(2013) Katsufumi Sato et al.   Scientific Reports

Where are we in understanding salamander locomotion: biological and robotic perspectives on kinematics

(2012) Konstantinos Karakasiliotis et al.   BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS

Vertebral morphometrics in Varanus

(2012) A. Burnell et al.   BULLETIN DE LA SOCIETE GEOLOGIQUE DE FRANCE

The hydrodynamic function of shark skin and two biomimetic applications

(2012) J. Oeffner et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Reappraisal of the Genus Tapirus (Perissodactyla, Tapiridae): Systematics and Phylogenetic Affinities of the South American Tapirs

(2012) Elizete Celestino Holanda et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

Three-dimensional limb joint mobility in the early tetrapod Ichthyostega

(2012) Stephanie E. Pierce et al.   NATURE

Adaptations for marine habitat and the effect of Triassic and Jurassic predator pressure on development of decompression syndrome in ichthyosaurs

(2012) B. M. Rothschild et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

New Ophthalmosaurid Ichthyosaurs from the European Lower Cretaceous Demonstrate Extensive Ichthyosaur Survival across the Jurassic–Cretaceous Boundary

(2012) Valentin Fischer et al.   PLoS One

Iterative Evolution of Sympatric Seacow (Dugongidae, Sirenia) Assemblages during the Past ∼26 Million Years

(2012) Jorge Velez-Juarbe et al.   PLoS One

Earliest Example of a Giant Monitor Lizard (Varanus, Varanidae, Squamata)

(2012) Jack L. Conrad et al.   PLoS One

Nuclear Genomic Sequences Reveal that Polar Bears Are an Old and Distinct Bear Lineage

(2012) F. Hailer et al.   SCIENCE

A turtle-like swimming robot using a smart soft composite (SSC) structure

(2012) Hyung-Jung Kim et al.   Smart Materials and Structures

Unusual Environmental Conditions Preserve a Permian Mesosaur-Bearing Konservat-Lagerstätte from Uruguay

(2011) Graciela Piñeiro et al.   ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICA POLONICA

Comparative axial morphology in pinnipeds and its correlation with aquatic locomotory behaviour

(2011) S. E. Pierce et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Landlubbers to leviathans: evolution of swimming in mosasaurine mosasaurs

(2011) Johan Lindgren et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Rise of the Earliest Tetrapods: An Early Devonian Origin from Marine Environment

(2011) David George et al.   PLoS One

Marine Reptiles

(2011) Arne Redsted Rasmussen et al.   PLoS One

Three-Dimensionally Preserved Integument Reveals Hydrodynamic Adaptations in the Extinct Marine Lizard Ectenosaurus (Reptilia, Mosasauridae)

(2011) Johan Lindgren et al.   PLoS One

The Origin(s) of Whales

(2010) Mark D. Uhen   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

The Basal Penguin (Aves: Sphenisciformes) Perudyptes devriesi and a Phylogenetic Evaluation of the Penguin Fossil Record

(2010) Daniel T. Ksepka et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

A new partial skeleton of a cryptocleidoid plesiosaur from the Upper Jurassic Sundance Formation of Wyoming

(2010) Benjamin C. Wilhelm et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Convergent Evolution in Aquatic Tetrapods: Insights from an Exceptional Fossil Mosasaur

(2010) Johan Lindgren et al.   PLoS One

Phylogenetic Analysis of Pelecaniformes (Aves) Based on Osteological Data: Implications for Waterbird Phylogeny and Fossil Calibration Studies

(2010) Nathan D. Smith   PLoS One

Re-Evaluation of Sinocastor (Rodentia: Castoridae) with Implications on the Origin of Modern Beavers

(2010) Natalia Rybczynski et al.   PLoS One

The Elasmosaurid Shoulder-girdle and Fore-limb.

(2010) D. M. S. Watson   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON

The evolution of Metriorhynchoidea (mesoeucrocodylia, thalattosuchia): an integrated approach using geometric morphometrics, analysis of disparity, and biomechanics

(2010) MARK T. YOUNG et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Skin of the Cretaceous mosasaur Plotosaurus: implications for aquatic adaptations in giant marine reptiles

(2009) J. Lindgren et al.   Biology Letters

“Pachyostosis” in aquatic amniotes: a review

(2009) Alexandra HOUSSAYE   Integrative Zoology

On the role of form and kinematics on the hydrodynamics of self-propelled body/caudal fin swimming

(2009) I. Borazjani et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Numerical investigation of the hydrodynamics of anguilliform swimming in the transitional and inertial flow regimes

(2009) I. Borazjani et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

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

How many extant pinniped species remain to be described?

(2009) Michael A. Woodley et al.   HISTORICAL BIOLOGY

Multigene phylogeny of the Mustelidae: Resolving relationships, tempo and biogeographic history of a mammalian adaptive radiation

(2008) Klaus-Peter Koepfli et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Hydrodynamic flow control in marine mammals

(2008) F. E. Fish et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Numerical investigation of the hydrodynamics of carangiform swimming in the transitional and inertial flow regimes

(2008) I. Borazjani et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Swimming Mode Inferred from Skeletal Proportions in the Fossil Pinnipeds Enaliarctos and Allodesmus (Mammalia, Carnivora)

(2008) Ryan M. Bebej   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

First record of Placodontoidea (Reptilia, Sauropterygia, Placodontia) from the Eastern Tethys

(2008) Da-Yong Jiang et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

A new aigialosaur (Squamata: Anguimorpha) with soft tissue remains from the Upper Cretaceous of Nuevo León, Mexico

(2008) Krister T. Smith et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

A LONG-SNOUTED DYROSAURID (CROCODYLIFORMES, MESOEUCROCODYLIA) FROM THE PALEOCENE OF MOROCCO: PHYLOGENETIC AND PALAEOBIOGEOGRAPHIC IMPLICATIONS

(2008) STEPHANE JOUVE et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

FLOW PATTERN AROUND THE RIGID CEPHALIC SHIELD OF THE DEVONIAN AGNATHANERRIVASPIS WAYNENSIS(PTERASPIDIFORMES: HETEROSTRACI)

(2008) HÉCTOR BOTELLA et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY