Early evolution of diurnal habits in owls (Aves, Strigiformes) documented by a new and exquisitely preserved Miocene owl fossil from China

Evolution of vision and hearing modalities in theropod dinosaurs

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Inter-individual differences in foveal shape in a scavenging raptor, the black kite Milvus migrans

(2020) Simon Potier et al.   Scientific Reports

Evidence of Late Miocene Peri-Tibetan Aridification From the Oldest Asian Species of Sandgrouse (Aves: Pteroclidae)

(2020) Zhiheng Li et al.   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Comparative genomics sheds light on the predatory lifestyle of accipitrids and owls

(2019) Chuang Zhou et al.   Scientific Reports

New paleomagnetic constraints for Platybelodon and Hipparion faunas in the Linxia Basin and their ecological environmental implications

(2019) Zhang Weilin et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Widespread nocturnality of living birds stemming from their common ancestor

(2019) Yonghua Wu   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Extensive paraphyly in the typical owl family (Strigidae)

(2019) Jessie F Salter et al.   AUK

Comprehensive molecular phylogeny of barn owls and relatives (Family: Tytonidae), and their six major Pleistocene radiations

(2018) Vera Uva et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The influence of human disturbance on wildlife nocturnality

(2018) Kaitlyn M. Gaynor et al.   SCIENCE

Neogene integrative stratigraphy and timescale of China

(2018) Tao Deng et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

Vocal specialization through tracheal elongation in an extinct Miocene pheasant from China

(2018) Zhiheng Li et al.   Scientific Reports

Temporal niche expansion in mammals from a nocturnal ancestor after dinosaur extinction

(2017) Roi Maor et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

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

(2015) Richard O. Prum et al.   NATURE

A falconid from the Late Miocene of northwestern China yields further evidence of transition in Late Neogene steppe communities

(2014) Zhiheng Li et al.   AUK

Nocturnality in synapsids predates the origin of mammals by over 100 million years

(2014) K. D. Angielczyk et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Eye Shape and Retinal Topography in Owls (Aves: Strigiformes)

(2012) Thomas J. Lisney et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Molecular ecology and adaptation of visual photopigments in craniates

(2012) WAYNE I. L. DAVIES et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Eye shape and the nocturnal bottleneck of mammals

(2012) M. I. Hall et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Molecular Phylogeny of Owls (Strigiformes) Inferred from DNA Sequences of the Mitochondrial Cytochromeband the NuclearRAG-1gene

(2011) Michael Wink et al.   ARDEA

PHYLOGENETIC VERSUS FUNCTIONAL SIGNALS IN THE EVOLUTION OF FORM-FUNCTION RELATIONSHIPS IN TERRESTRIAL VISION

(2011) Ryosuke Motani et al.   EVOLUTION

The first fossil owls (Aves: Strigiformes) from the Paleogene of Asia and a review of the fossil record of Strigiformes

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Nocturnality in Dinosaurs Inferred from Scleral Ring and Orbit Morphology

(2011) L. Schmitz et al.   SCIENCE

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

The Upper Pliocene avifauna of Ahl al Oughlam, Morocco. Systematics and biogeography. In Proceedings of the VII International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, ed. W.E. Boles and T.H. Worthy

(2010) Cécile Mourer-Chauviré et al.   RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM

Morphological differences between the eyeballs of nocturnal and diurnal amniotes revisited from optical perspectives of visual environments

(2010) Lars Schmitz et al.   VISION RESEARCH

A new Old World vulture (Falconiformes: Accipitridae) from the Miocene of Gansu Province, northwest China

(2009) Zihui Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY

Under Cover of Darkness: Nocturnal Life of Diurnal Birds

(2009) Andrey Mukhin et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL RHYTHMS