Growth and miniaturization among alvarezsauroid dinosaurs

Sustained miniaturization, here defined as a drop in body size of at least two orders of magnitude from ancestors to descendants, is a widespread and important phenomenon in animals,1–3 but among dinosaurs, miniaturization occurred only rarely, once in the lineage leading to birds and once in the Al...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Current biology 2021-08, Vol.31 (16), p.3687-3693.e5
Hauptverfasser:	Qin, Zichuan, Zhao, Qi, Choiniere, Jonah N., Clark, James M., Benton, Michael J., Xu, Xing
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	alvarezsauroid dinosaurs Animals Biological Evolution body size evolution Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution Dinosaurs - anatomy & histology ecological niche Fossils growth rate growth strategy miniaturization ontogenetic effect osteohistology phylogenetic radiation Phylogeny
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