Bhart-Anjan S. Bhullarさんのイラストまとめ

Out now, led by @EgawaShiro from his time as a postdoc in my lab, our paper on the evolution and development of the dinosaurian femoral head, which identifies a surprising, cryptic shift in developmental mode on the line to birds. Open access! (1/9) https://t.co/3C8XFZSFcN

We find that the bird hip starts out looking very primitive indeed and that it adds features during development in an order mirroring their sequence of evolution — including, transiently, structures like the pubic boot, long thought vanished among modern dinosaurs. 2/12

With lead author Michael Hanson and @AMNH colleagues Eva Hoffman and Mark Norell, a story about flying dinosaurs and chirping babies and the intricacies of the inner ear. 1/10 https://t.co/Uy1qTqGdxW