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Researchers show dinos hatched eggs less efficiently than modern birds
5+ hour, 50+ min ago (426+ words) We show the difference in oviraptor hatching patterns was induced by the relative position of the incubating adult to the eggs," said senior author Dr Tzu-Ruei Yang, an associate curator of vertebrate paleontology at Taiwan's National Museum of Natural Science....
Frontiers | Functional and Hydraulic Diversity of Forests Under Water Limitation: Trait-Based Responses, Resilience, and Adaptation to Global Change
3+ week, 3+ day ago (249+ words) The central premise is that water limitation'intensified by climate change through increased drought frequency, higher atmospheric demand, and altered precip... You will be redirected to our submission process. About this Research Topic Manuscript Summary Submission Deadline 20 May 2026 | Manuscript Submission Deadline…...
Prospects for fistula technologies in the study of digestion and metabolism in birds
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (1351+ words) For developing more effective feeds and feeding methods for farm birds, it is important to study digestion and metabolism processes usinf fistula technologies. This approach has an unconditional ethical priority over post-mortem collection of research material. Furthermore, a positive aspect…...
Heat transfer in a realistic clutch reveals a lower efficiency in incubation of oviraptorid dinosaurs than of modern birds
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (403+ words) It has been proposed that some reproductive traits specific to birds, such as thermoregulatory contact incubation (TCI), may also have been present in oviraptorosaurians, as inferred from clutch-associated oviraptorid adults with postures resembling avian brooding behavior. Nevertheless, prerequisites for TCI,…...
Frontiers | Unraveling Amphibian and Reptile Evolution Through Recent Fossil Discoveries
3+ mon, 6+ day ago (206+ words) The fossil record is crucial for understanding the origins and diversification of amphibians and reptiles. New discoveries continuously yield new insights in... You will be redirected to our submission process. About this Research Topic Manuscript Summary Submission Deadline 25 February 2026 | Manuscript…...
Newly dated 85-million-year-old dino eggs could improve understanding of Cretaceous climate
6+ mon, 6+ day ago (356+ words) In the Cretaceous period, Earth was plagued by widespread volcanic activity, oceanic oxygen depletion events, and mass extinctions. Fossils from that era remain and continue to give scientists clues as to what the climate may have looked like in different…...
Frontiers | Insular Zooarchaeology: Advances in the Study of Faunal Assemblages from Oceania
1+ year, 1+ week ago (540+ words) Zooarchaeological Background:From its origins in the early 20th century, zooarchaeology has a long tradition of combining principles from biology, ecology, e... You will be redirected to our submission process. About this Research Topic Manuscript Summary Submission Deadline 2 June 2025 | Manuscript Submission Deadline…...