Titre: Closest relatives found for pterosaurs, the first flying vertebrates Auteur:Padian, Kevin Sujet:Evolution ; Palaeontology Description:
In 1812, Georges Cuvier, the incomparable anatomist at the Museum of Natural History in Paris, produced the first comprehensive book to be published on the history of fossil tetrapods (animals with backbones, excluding fishes)1. [...]the fossil evidence that was needed to confirm this was elusive: pterosaurs are so strangely constructed that their extreme adaptations for flight actually mask many of the features that might otherwise reveal their relationships to other animals. [...]Ezcurra and colleagues' study underscores the view that pterosaurs are the closest major group to dinosaurs, that another group (lagerpetids) formerly thought close to dinosaurs are now shown to be even closer to pterosaurs than previously thought, and that the common ancestor of all of these groups was probably a small, long-limbed, short-bodied, slender biped with a large head, peg-like teeth, considerable agility and an acute awareness of its surroundings.
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Nature, December 2020, Vol.588(7838), pp.400-401
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1476-4687 (E-ISSN); 33299162 Version (PMID); 10.1038/d41586-020-03420-z (DOI)
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Misconceptions of sexual selection and species recognition: a response to Knell et al. and to Mendelson and Shaw
Padian, Kevin, Horner, John R
Trends in ecology & evolution (Amsterdam), May 2013, Vol.28(5), pp.249-250
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ScienceDirect Journals (Elsevier)
Mazin, Jean-Michel
Billon-Bruyat, Jean-Paul, Padian, Kevin
In: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. - London. - Vol. 276(2009), p. 3881-3886
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Review : [missing links] / Padian Kevin
Auteur:Padian, Kevin Publication en relation:
In: Journal of Paleontology. - Lawrence. - 2004, vol. 78, no 3, p. 620-621
Document hôte:Journal of paleontology Note:
Compte rendu du livre "Missing Links: evolutionary concepts and transitions through time", de Robert A. Martin
No RERO:
R004857080
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Feathers, fakes, and fossil dealers : how the commercial sale of fossils erodes science and education / Kevin Padian
Auteur:Padian, Kevin Sujet RERO:patrimoine naturel - protection
- Fossiles Sujet RERO - forme:[document électronique] Publication en relation:
In: Palaeontologia electronica. - [S.l.]. - Vol. 3(2000), no 2, p. 1-8
Document hôte:Palaeontologia electronica Note:
Bibliogr.: p. 8
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R004977595