Submissions tagged with Dinosaur
(5 documents)
Limusaurus and bird digit identity
Limusaurus is a remarkable herbivorous ceratosaur unique among theropods in having digits II, III and IV, with only a small metacarpal vestige of digit I. This raises interesting questions regard…
Received 06 October 2009 03:05 UTC; Posted 06 October 2009
Posted to: Developmental Biology, Genetics & Genomics, Molecular Cell Biology, Evolutionary Biology
Molecular evidence for the hadrosaur B. canadensis as an outgroup to a clade containing the dinosaur T. rex and birds
Molecular analysis of collagen sequences from an 80 million year old hadrosaur B. canadensis and a 68 million year old dinosaur T. rex suggest strongly that B. canadensis is an outgroup to a …
Received 15 May 2009 19:03 UTC; Posted 27 May 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Biology
A bizarre Jurassic maniraptoran from China with elongate ribbon-like feathers
Recent coelurosaurian discoveries have greatly enriched our knowledge of the dinosaur-bird transition, but all reported taxa close to this transition are from relatively well-known coelurosaurian g…
Received 24 September 2008 12:52 UTC; Posted 24 September 2008
Posted to: Developmental Biology, Ecology, Earth & Environment
Ancient fossil specimens of extinct species are genetically more distant to an outgroup than extant sister species are
There exists a remarkable correlation between genetic distance as measured by protein or DNA dissimilarity and time of species divergence as inferred from fossil records. This observation has prov…
Received 23 July 2008 16:14 UTC; Posted 25 July 2008
Posted to: Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Biology
Functional aspects of titanosaur osteoderms
Though titanosaur osteoderms are not common findings, these elements are recorded widely in Gondwana and part of Laurasia. This assembly known by the date offers few resources for studies on the ec…
Received 21 July 2007 03:05 UTC; Posted 26 July 2007
Posted to: Ecology
