How to Make a Bird Skull: Major Transitions in the Evolution of the Avian Cranium, Paedomorphosis, and the Beak as a Surrogate Hand

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

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

An exceptional fossil skull from South America and the origins of the archosauriform radiation

(2016) Felipe L. Pinheiro et al.   Scientific Reports

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

A redescription of the early archosauromorph Protorosaurus speneri Meyer, 1832, and its phylogenetic relationships

(2016) Annalise Gottmann-Quesada et al.   PALAEONTOGRAPHICA ABTEILUNG A-PALAOZOOLOGIE-STRATIGRAPHIE

Second species of enantiornithine bird from the Lower Cretaceous Changma Basin, northwestern China with implications for the taxonomic diversity of the Changma avifauna

(2015) Min Wang et al.   CRETACEOUS RESEARCH

The Origin and Diversification of Birds

(2015) Stephen L. Brusatte et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A molecular mechanism for the origin of a key evolutionary innovation, the bird beak and palate, revealed by an integrative approach to major transitions in vertebrate history

(2015) Bhart-Anjan S. Bhullar et al.   EVOLUTION

A comprehensive phylogeny of birds (Aves) using targeted next-generation DNA sequencing

(2015) Richard O. Prum et al.   NATURE

Preservation is predictable: quantifying the effect of taphonomic biases on ecological disparity in birds

(2015) Jonathan S. Mitchell   PALEOBIOLOGY

Gradual Assembly of Avian Body Plan Culminated in Rapid Rates of Evolution across the Dinosaur-Bird Transition

(2014) Stephen L. Brusatte et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A new robust enantiornithine bird from the Lower Cretaceous of China with scansorial adaptations

(2014) Min Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Feather Development Genes and Associated Regulatory Innovation Predate the Origin of Dinosauria

(2014) Craig B. Lowe et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Phylogenetic interrelationships of living and extinct Tinamidae, volant palaeognathous birds from the New World

(2014) Sara Bertelli et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Molecular characterization of dental development in a toothed archosaur, the American alligatorAlligator mississippiensis

(2013) Olivia Weeks et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

A new enantiornithine from the Yixian Formation with the first recognized avian enamel specialization

(2013) Jingmai K. O’Connor et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Anatomy of the basal ornithuromorph birdArchaeorhynchus spathulafrom the Early Cretaceous of Liaoning, China

(2013) Shuang Zhou et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Evolutionary origins of the avian brain

(2013) Amy M. Balanoff et al.   NATURE

DEVELOPMENTAL BASIS OF TOOTHLESSNESS IN TURTLES: INSIGHT INTO CONVERGENT EVOLUTION OF VERTEBRATE MORPHOLOGY

(2012) Masayoshi Tokita et al.   EVOLUTION

A subadult specimen of the Early Cretaceous birdSapeornis chaoyangensisand a taxonomic reassessment of sapeornithids

(2012) Chunling Gao et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Birds have paedomorphic dinosaur skulls

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

Closely related bird species demonstrate flexibility between beak morphology and underlying developmental programs

(2012) R. Mallarino et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Anatomy of the Early Cretaceous Enantiornithine BirdRapaxavis pani

(2011) Jingmai K. O'Connor et al.   ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICA POLONICA

The Early Evolution of Archosaurs: Relationships and the Origin of Major Clades

(2011) Sterling J. Nesbitt   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

MOSAIC HETEROCHRONY AND EVOLUTIONARY MODULARITY: THE TRILOBITE GENUS ZACANTHOPSIS AS A CASE STUDY

(2011) Sylvain Gerber et al.   EVOLUTION

Distribution of the predentary bone in Mesozoic ornithurine birds

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

A revision of enantiornithine (Aves: Ornithothoraces) skull morphology

(2011) Jingmai K. O’Connor et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

Flexibility in Problem Solving and Tool Use of Kea and New Caledonian Crows in a Multi Access Box Paradigm

(2011) Alice M. I. Auersperg et al.   PLoS One

Two developmental modules establish 3D beak-shape variation in Darwin's finches

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

Evolution of olfaction in non-avian theropod dinosaurs and birds

(2011) D. K. Zelenitsky et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

From snout to beak: the loss of teeth in birds

(2011) Antoine Louchart et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A Second Cretaceous Ornithuromorph Bird from the Changma Basin, Gansu Province, Northwestern China

(2010) Hai-Lu You et al.   ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICA POLONICA

Homology and Evolution of Avian Compound Rhamphothecae

(2010) Tobin L. Hieronymus et al.   AUK

Mechanical Analysis of Feeding Behavior in the Extinct “Terror Bird” Andalgalornis steulleti (Gruiformes: Phorusrhacidae)

(2010) Federico J. Degrange et al.   PLoS One

Geometric morphometrics of the skull of Tinamidae (Aves, Palaeognathae)

(2010) Federico J. Degrange et al.   ZOOLOGY

The Perinate Skull of Byronosaurus (Troodontidae) with Observations on the Cranial Ontogeny of Paravian Theropods

(2009) Gabe S. Bever et al.   AMERICAN MUSEUM NOVITATES

Loss of teeth and enamel in tetrapods: fossil record, genetic data and morphological adaptations

(2009) Tiphaine Davit-Béal et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Feeding mechanics in primitive teleosts and in the halecomorph fish Amia calva

(2009) George V. Lauder   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

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

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

A survey of the rock record of reptilian ontogeny

(2009) Massimo Delfino et al.   SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Hen's teeth with enamel cap: from dream to impossibility

(2008) Jean-Yves Sire et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Cranial kinesis in dinosaurs: intracranial joints, protractor muscles, and their significance for cranial evolution and function in diapsids

(2008) Casey M. Holliday et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

TWO NEW PARROTS (PSITTACIFORMES) FROM THE LOWER EOCENE FUR FORMATION OF DENMARK

(2008) DAVID M. WATERHOUSE et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Mosaicism, Modules, and the Evolution of Birds: Results from a Bayesian Approach to the Study of Morphological Evolution Using Discrete Character Data

(2008) Julia A. Clarke et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY