Bird neurocranial and body mass evolution across the end-Cretaceous mass extinction: The avian brain shape left other dinosaurs behind

Tempo and Pattern of Avian Brain Size Evolution

(2020) Daniel T. Ksepka et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Late Cretaceous neornithine from Europe illuminates the origins of crown birds

(2020) Daniel J. Field et al.   NATURE

Anatomy of Parahesperornis: Evolutionary Mosaicism in the Cretaceous Hesperornithiformes (Aves)

(2020) Alyssa Bell et al.   Life-Basel

Multiphase progenetic development shaped the brain of flying archosaurs

(2019) Vincent Beyrand et al.   Scientific Reports

Evolution of the vomer and its implications for cranial kinesis in Paraves

(2019) Han Hu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

On the taxonomic composition and phylogenetic affinities of the recently proposed clade Vegaviidae Agnolín et al., 2017 ‒ neornithine birds from the Upper Cretaceous of the Southern Hemisphere

(2018) Gerald Mayr et al.   CRETACEOUS RESEARCH

Early Evolution of Modern Birds Structured by Global Forest Collapse at the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction

(2018) Daniel J. Field et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Complete Ichthyornis skull illuminates mosaic assembly of the avian head

(2018) Daniel J. Field et al.   NATURE

A stem anseriform from the early Palaeocene of Antarctica provides new key evidence in the early evolution of waterfowl

(2018) Claudia P Tambussi et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Vegaviidae, a new clade of southern diving birds that survived the K/T boundary

(2017) Federico L. Agnolín et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Genomic Signature of an Avian Lilliput Effect across the K-Pg Extinction

(2017) Jacob S. Berv et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Vegaviidae, a new clade of southern diving birds that survived the K/T boundary

(2017) Federico L. Agnolín et al.   Science of Nature

The evolution of giant flightless birds and novel phylogenetic relationships for extinct fowl (Aves, Galloanseres)

(2017) Trevor H. Worthy et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Maaqwi cascadensis: A large, marine diving bird (Avialae: Ornithurae) from the Upper Cretaceous of British Columbia, Canada

(2017) Sandy M. S. McLachlan et al.   PLoS One

Flying starlings, PET and the evolution of volant dinosaurs

(2016) Maria Eugenia Leone Gold et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Dental Disparity and Ecological Stability in Bird-like Dinosaurs prior to the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction

(2016) Derek W. Larson et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Birds have primate-like numbers of neurons in the forebrain

(2016) Seweryn Olkowicz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A new ornithurine from the Early Cretaceous of China sheds light on the evolution of early ecological and cranial diversity in birds

(2016) Jiandong Huang et al.   PeerJ

Best practices for digitally constructing endocranial casts: examples from birds and their dinosaurian relatives

(2015) Amy M. Balanoff et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

A reappraisal ofCerebavis cenomanica(Aves, Ornithurae), from Melovatka, Russia

(2015) Stig A. Walsh et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Brain modularity across the theropod-bird transition: testing the influence of flight on neuroanatomical variation

(2015) Amy M. Balanoff et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

The extinction of the dinosaurs

(2014) Stephen L. Brusatte et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

A new specimen of large-bodied basal Enantiornithine Bohaiornis from the Early Cretaceous of China and the inference of feeding ecology in Mesozoic birds

(2014) Zhiheng Li et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

strap: an R package for plotting phylogenies against stratigraphy and assessing their stratigraphic congruence

(2014) Mark A. Bell et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Reconsidering the Avian Nature of the Oviraptorosaur Brain (Dinosauria: Theropoda)

(2014) Amy M. Balanoff et al.   PLoS One

On the absence of sternal elements in Anchiornis (Paraves) and Sapeornis (Aves) and the complex early evolution of the avian sternum

(2014) X. Zheng et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evidence for mesothermy in dinosaurs

(2014) J. M. Grady et al.   SCIENCE

Variation in avian brain shape: relationship with size and orbital shape

(2013) Soichiro Kawabe et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Evolutionary origins of the avian brain

(2013) Amy M. Balanoff et al.   NATURE

Skeletal Correlates for Body Mass Estimation in Modern and Fossil Flying Birds

(2013) Daniel J. Field et al.   PLoS One

Birds have paedomorphic dinosaur skulls

(2012) Bhart-Anjan S. Bhullar et al.   NATURE

Distribution of the predentary bone in Mesozoic ornithurine birds

(2011) Zhonghe Zhou et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

Variation, Variability, and the Origin of the Avian Endocranium: Insights from the Anatomy of Alioramus altai (Theropoda: Tyrannosauroidea)

(2011) Gabe S. Bever et al.   PLoS One

Mass extinction of birds at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary

(2011) N. R. Longrich et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)

(2011) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Cranial Osteology of the Theropod Dinosaur Incisivosaurus gauthieri (Theropoda: Oviraptorosauria)

(2010) Amy M. Balanoff et al.   AMERICAN MUSEUM NOVITATES

Was Dinosaurian Physiology Inherited by Birds? Reconciling Slow Growth in Archaeopteryx

(2009) Gregory M. Erickson et al.   PLoS One

THE FLYING ABILITY OF ARCHAEOPTERYX

(2008) D. W. Yalden   IBIS