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Xing L, Lockley M, Jia C, Klein H, Niu K, Zhang L, et al.
PeerJ . 2021 Jun; 9:e11476. PMID: 34123592
Rich tetrapod ichnofaunas, known for more than a decade, from the Huangyangquan Reservoir (Wuerhe District, Karamay City, Xinjiang) have been an abundant source of some of the largest Lower Cretaceous...
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Hone D, Persons W, Le Comber S
PeerJ . 2021 Feb; 9:e10721. PMID: 33628634
The tails of non-avialan dinosaurs varied considerably in terms of overall length, total number of vertebrae, and gross form and function. A new dataset confirms that there is little or...
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Persons W, Currie P
Evolution . 2019 Jul; 73(9):1686-1694. PMID: 31359437
Over the last two decades, paleontologists have pieced together the early evolutionary history of feathers. Simple hair-like feathers served as insulating pelage, but the first feathers with complex branching structures...
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Persons W, Currie P
J Theor Biol . 2017 Mar; 420:1-7. PMID: 28254476
Bipedalism is a trait basal to, and widespread among, dinosaurs. It has been previously argued that bipedalism arose in the ancestors of dinosaurs for the function of freeing the forelimbs...