ReviewBiology letters2025
The living dinosaur: accomplishments and challenges of reconstructing dinosaur physiology.
Review in Biology letters, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Endothermy, neuron counts, and other issues: Further remarks on neurocognitive evolution in fossil vertebrates.Anatomical record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007) · 2026Article
- Anatomical Atlas and Three-Dimensional Musculoskeletal Model of the Flight Apparatus in the Southern Screamer (Anseriformes:Integrative organismal biology (Oxford, England) · 2026Article
- Dinosaur science.Biology letters · 2025Article
- The living dinosaur: accomplishments and challenges of reconstructing dinosaur physiology.Biology letters · 2025Review
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Abstract
The drive to determine the physiology of non-avian dinosaurs has produced several novel methodologies. In this review, we survey the current state of the field and evaluate the latest reconstructions of non-avian dinosaurian metabolism, thermoregulation, respiratory biology, and the cardiovascular and digestive systems. Most inferences of dinosaur physiology are based on correlations that assume tightly linked relationships between physiology and anatomy. Such causal links must first be well established, tested and functionally validated across a phylogenetically broad range of extant taxa before they can be applied to extinct forms. We offer some basic guidelines for conducting evidence-based, robust reconstructions of palaeophysiology that stay within the confines of both empirical studies and the fossil record.
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