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Digital restoration of the pectoral girdles of two Early Cretaceous birds and implications for early-flight evolution.
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- Critical innovations in the assembly of the modern flight apparatus in Early Cretaceous birds.iScience · 2026Article
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- Reconstruction of pectoral musculature in non-avialan paravians and basal birds: implications in the acquisition of flapping flight.BMC ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Forelimb feathering, soft tissues, and skeleton of the flying dromaeosaurid Microraptor.BMC ecology and evolution · 2025Article
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- Toward a Comprehensive Anatomical Matrix for Crown Birds: Phylogenetic Insights from the Pectoral Girdle and Forelimb Skeleton.Integrative organismal biology (Oxford, England) · 2025Article
- Whence the birds: 200 years of dinosaurs, avian antecedents.Biology letters · 2025Review
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- Morphometric studies on the appendicular bony skeleton of the ostriches (Struthio Camelus).BMC veterinary research · 2023Article
- A new confuciusornithid bird with a secondary epiphyseal ossification reveals phylogenetic changes in confuciusornithid flight mode.Communications biology · 2022Article
- Preserved soft anatomy confirms shoulder-powered upstroke of early theropod flyers, reveals enhanced early pygostylian upstroke, and explains early sternum loss.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
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Abstract
The morphology of the pectoral girdle, the skeletal structure connecting the wing to the body, is a key determinant of flight capability, but in some respects is poorly known among stem birds. Here, the pectoral girdles of the Early Cretaceous birds
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