Functional Morphometric Analysis of the Furcula in Mesozoic Birds

Anatomy of the Early Cretaceous Enantiornithine BirdRapaxavis pani

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

A gigantic bird from the Upper Cretaceous of Central Asia

(2011) D. Naish et al.   Biology Letters

Likelihood reinstates Archaeopteryx as a primitive bird

(2011) M. S. Y. Lee et al.   Biology Letters

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

(2011) Ryosuke Motani et al.   EVOLUTION

Cross sectional geometry of the forelimb skeleton and flight mode in pelecaniform birds

(2011) Erin L. R. Simons et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

Statistical approach for inferring ecology of Mesozoic birds

(2011) Alyssa Bell et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

An Archaeopteryx-like theropod from China and the origin of Avialae

(2011) Xing Xu et al.   NATURE

Nocturnality in Dinosaurs Inferred from Scleral Ring and Orbit Morphology

(2011) L. Schmitz et al.   SCIENCE

Mesozoic retroposons reveal parrots as the closest living relatives of passerine birds

(2011) Alexander Suh et al.   Nature Communications

adephylo: new tools for investigating the phylogenetic signal in biological traits

(2010) Thibaut Jombart et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology

(2010) S. W. Kembel et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

The structural mechanics and evolution of aquaflying birds

(2010) MICHAEL HABIB   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Wing-beat characteristics of birds recorded with tracking radar and cine camera

(2010) BRUNO BRUDERER et al.   IBIS

A new ornithuromorph (Aves: Ornithothoraces) bird from the Jehol Group indicative of higher-level diversity

(2010) Jingmai K. O'Connor et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

A Basal Alvarezsauroid Theropod from the Early Late Jurassic of Xinjiang, China

(2010) J. N. Choiniere et al.   SCIENCE

Phylogenetics of modern shorebirds (Charadriiformes) based on phenotypic evidence: analysis and discussion

(2010) BRADLEY C. LIVEZEY   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Forelimb skeletal morphology and flight mode evolution in pelecaniform birds

(2010) Erin L.R. Simons   ZOOLOGY

SIZE-CORRECTION AND PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS FOR INTERSPECIFIC COMPARATIVE STUDIES

(2009) Liam J. Revell   EVOLUTION

Aerodynamics of intermittent bounds in flying birds

(2009) Bret W. Tobalske et al.   EXPERIMENTS IN FLUIDS

Relationship between osteology and aquatic locomotion in birds: determining modes of locomotion in extinct Ornithurae

(2009) S. HINIĆ-FRLOG et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Adjustments of wingbeat frequency and air speed to air density in free-flying migratory birds

(2009) H. Schmaljohann et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

The theropod furcula

(2009) Sterling J. Nesbitt et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

A pre-Archaeopteryx troodontid theropod from China with long feathers on the metatarsus

(2009) Dongyu Hu et al.   NATURE

A new Lower Cretaceous bird from China and tooth reduction in early avian evolution

(2009) Z. Zhou et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Insight into diversity, body size and morphological evolution from the largest Early Cretaceous enantiornithine bird

(2008) Zhonghe Zhou et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

The fossil record and limb disparity of enantiornithines, the dominant flying birds of the Cretaceous

(2008) GARETH J. DYKE et al.   LETHAIA

A Phylogenomic Study of Birds Reveals Their Evolutionary History

(2008) S. J. Hackett et al.   SCIENCE

Superiority, Competition, and Opportunism in the Evolutionary Radiation of Dinosaurs

(2008) Stephen L. Brusatte et al.   SCIENCE

A primitive confuciusornithid bird from China and its implications for early avian flight

(2008) FuCheng Zhang et al.   Science in China. Series D, Earth sciences / Chinese Academy of Sciences