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A Catalog ofZalmoxes(Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) Specimens from the Upper Cretaceous Nălaţ-Vad Locality, Haţeg Basin, Romania

scientific article published in 2017

A Large Alvarezsaurid from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia

scientific article (publication date: 25 July 2009)

A Medium-Sized Robust-Necked Azhdarchid Pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea: Azhdarchidae) from the Maastrichtian of Pui (Haţeg Basin, Transylvania, Romania)

scientific article published in 2015

A New Dromaeosaurid (Dinosauria: Coelurosauria) from Khulsan, Central Mongolia

scientific article published on 8 November 2021

A New Dromaeosaurid Theropod from Ukhaa Tolgod (Ömnögov, Mongolia)

scientific article (publication date: 2006)

A New Dromaeosaurid from the Late Cretaceous Khulsan Locality of Mongolia

scientific article

A New Platynotan Lizard (Diapsida: Squamata) from the Late Cretaceous Gobi Desert (Ömnögov), Mongolia

article published in 2008

A New Specimen of the Ornithischian DinosaurHaya griva, Cross-Gobi Geologic Correlation, and the Age of The Zos Canyon Beds

scientific article published in 2016

A New Specimen ofMicroraptor(Theropoda: Dromaeosauridae) from the Lower Cretaceous of Western Liaoning, China

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A Review of Dromaeosaurid Systematics and Paravian Phylogeny

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A Review of the Mongolian Cretaceous Dinosaur Saurornithoides (Troodontidae: Theropoda)

scientific article (publication date: 25 July 2009)

A Second Specimen of Citipati Osmolskae Associated With a Nest of Eggs from Ukhaa Tolgod, Omnogov Aimag, Mongolia

scientific article published in 2018

A Velociraptor wishbone

journal article; published in Nature, 1997-10

A basal dromaeosaurid and size evolution preceding avian flight

scientific article (publication date: 7 September 2007)

A basal troodontid from the Early Cretaceous of China

scientific article (publication date: 14 February 2002)

A basal tyrannosauroid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of China

scientific article

A burrowing frog from the late Paleocene of Mongolia uncovers a deep history of spadefoot toads (Pelobatoidea) in East Asia

scientific article

A ceratopsian dinosaur from China and the early evolution of Ceratopsia

scientific article

A combined evidence phylogenetic analysis of Anguimorpha (Reptilia: Squamata)

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A complete skeleton of a Late Triassic saurischian and the early evolution of dinosaurs

scientific article

A complex hyobranchial apparatus in a Cretaceous dinosaur and the antiquity of avian paraglossalia

article

A giant ornithomimosaur from the Early Cretaceous of China

scientific article (publication date: 22 January 2010)

A juvenile specimen of a new coelurosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Middle–Late Jurassic Shishugou Formation of Xinjiang, People's Republic of China

scientific article published on 3 May 2013

A large Compsognathid from the early cretaceous Yixian formation of China

article

A long-snouted, multihorned tyrannosaurid from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia

scientific article

A longirostrine tyrannosauroid from the Early Cretaceous of China

scientific article

A neoceratopsian dinosaur from the early Cretaceous of Mongolia and the early evolution of ceratopsia

scientific article published on 10 September 2020

A nesting dinosaur

scientific article published in Nature

A new basal ornithopod (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia

A new dromaeosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous Wulansuhai Formation of Inner Mongolia, China

article

A new early Tertiary mammal fauna from central Chile: implications for Andean stratigraphy and tectonics

article

A new feathered maniraptoran dinosaur fossil that fills a morphological gap in avian origin

scientific article published on 16 December 2008

A new fossil mammal assemblage from the southern Chilean Andes: implications for geology, geochronology, and tectonics

article

A new rhynchocephalian (Reptilia: Lepidosauria) from the Late Jurassic of Solnhofen (Germany) and the origin of the marine Pleurosauridae.

scientific article published on 8 November 2017

A new troodontid dinosaur from China with avian-like sleeping posture

scientific article

A new troodontid theropod from Ukhaa Tolgod, Mongolia

A partial ornithomimid braincase from Ukhaa Tolgod (Upper Cretaceous, Mongolia)

scientific article published in 1998

A possible instance of sexual dimorphism in the tails of two oviraptorosaur dinosaurs

scientific article

A prospective, multi-year analysis of illness and injury during summer travel to arid environments

scientific article published on January 2009

A small alvarezsaurid from the eastern Gobi Desert offers insight into evolutionary patterns in the Alvarezsauroidea

An aberrant island-dwelling theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Romania

scientific article

An additional Baurusuchid from the cretaceous of Brazil with evidence of interspecific predation among crocodyliformes

scientific article published in 2014

An expanded combined evidence approach to the Gavialis problem using geometric morphometric data from crocodylian braincases and Eustachian systems

scientific article

An oviraptorid skeleton from the late Cretaceous of Ukhaa Tolgod, Mongolia, preserved in an avianlike brooding position over an oviraptorid nest

scientific article published in 1999

Anatomy and Relationships ofGilmoreosaurus mongoliensis(Dinosauria: Hadrosauroidea) from the Late Cretaceous of Central Asia

article

Anatomy and systematics of the Confuciusornithidae (Theropoda, Aves) from the late Mesozoic of northeastern China

scientific article published in 1999

Anatomy ofMahakala omnogovae(Theropoda: Dromaeosauridae), Tögrögiin Shiree, Mongolia

scientific article published in 2011

Are endocasts good proxies for brain size and shape in archosaurs throughout ontogeny?

scholarly article by Akinobu Watanabe published in December 2018

Assignment ofYamaceratops dorngobiensisand associated redbeds at Shine Us Khudag (eastern Gobi, Dorngobi Province, Mongolia) to the redescribed Javkhlant Formation (Upper Cretaceous)

scientific article (publication date: 12 March 2009)

Avian paternal care had dinosaur origin

scientific article

Avian-like breathing mechanics in maniraptoran dinosaurs

scientific article

Basal tyrannosauroids from China and evidence for protofeathers in tyrannosauroids

scientific article

Behavioral and faunal implications of Early Cretaceous deinonychosaur trackways from China

scientific article

Bird neurocranial and body mass evolution across the end-Cretaceous mass extinction: The avian brain shape left other dinosaurs behind

scientific article published in 2021

Birds have paedomorphic dinosaur skulls

scientific article published on July 12, 2012

Combined support for wholesale taxic atavism in gavialine crocodylians

scientific article published on June 2003

Complex Overlapping Joints between Facial Bones Allowing Limited Anterior Sliding Movements of the Snout in Diplodocid Sauropods

scientific article published in 2018

Complex dental structure and wear biomechanics in hadrosaurid dinosaurs

scientific article

Convergent Evolution of a Eusuchian-Type Secondary Palate within Shartegosuchidae

scientific article published in 2018

Correction: Flightless bird from the Cretaceous of Mongolia

Corrigendum: Gigantism and comparative life-history parameters of tyrannosaurid dinosaurs

scientific article published on 16 December 2015

CorrigendumCombined phylogenetic analysis of a new North American fossil species confirms widespread Eocene distribution for stem rollers (Aves, Coracii)

scholarly article by Julia A. Clarke et al published 28 August 2014 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Cranial Autapomorphies in Two Species of Iguana (Iguanidae: Squamata)

scientific article published in 2010

Cranial Osteology of the Theropod Dinosaur Incisivosaurus gauthieri (Theropoda: Oviraptorosauria)

scholarly article by Amy M. Balanoff et al published 2009 in American Museum Novitates

Cranial Osteology ofHaplocheirus sollersChoiniere et al., 2010 (Theropoda: Alvarezsauroidea)

scientific article published in 2014

Cretaceous dinosaur bone contains recent organic material and provides an environment conducive to microbial communities

scientific article

Cretaceous dinosaur bone contains recent organic material and provides an environment conducive to microbial communities.

scientific article published on 18 June 2019

Decelerated dinosaur skull evolution with the origin of birds

scientific article published on 18 August 2020

Digital preparation of a probable neoceratopsian preserved within an egg, with comments on microstructural anatomy of ornithischian eggshells

scientific article

Dinosaur egg colour had a single evolutionary origin

scientific article published in Nature

Dinosaur eggs and nesting behaviors: A paleobiological investigation

scholarly article by Gerald Grellet-Tinner et al published March 2006 in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Dinosaur incubation periods directly determined from growth-line counts in embryonic teeth show reptilian-grade development

scientific article (publication date: 17 January 2017)

Dinosaur morphological diversity and the end-Cretaceous extinction

scientific article

Dome-headed, small-brained island mammal from the Late Cretaceous of Romania

scientific article published on 23 April 2018

Erketu ellisoni, a Long-necked Sauropod from Bor Guvé (Dornogov Aimag, Mongolia)

scientific article (publication date: 2006)

Erratum: A nesting dinosaur

scientific article published in Nature

Estimating Flight Style of Early Eocene Stem Palaeognath Bird Calciavis grandei (Lithornithidae)

scientific article published on 16 July 2019

Evolution of vision and hearing modalities in theropod dinosaurs

scientific article published in 2021

Evolutionary integration and modularity in the archosaur cranium

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Evolutionary origins of the avian brain

scientific article published on July 31, 2013

Exceptional fossil material of a semi-aquatic reptile from China: the resolution of an enigma

article

Exceptionally preserved juvenile megalosauroid theropod dinosaur with filamentous integument from the Late Jurassic of Germany

scientific article

Extraordinary preservation in a new vertebrate assemblage from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia

scientific article published in Nature

Extreme convergence in the body plans of an early suchian (Archosauria) and ornithomimid dinosaurs (Theropoda)

scientific article

FEATHERED DINOSAURS

scientific article published on 31 May 2005

Feather quill knobs in the dinosaur Velociraptor

scientific article

First record ofErpetosuchus(Reptilia: Archosauria) from the Late Triassic of North America

article by Paul E. Olsen et al published 19 January 2001 in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Flight from reason

scientific article published in Nature

Flightless bird from the Cretaceous of Mongolia

scientific article published in Nature

Flying starlings, PET and the evolution of volant dinosaurs

scientific article published in April 2016

Fossil biomolecules reveal an avian metabolism in the ancestral dinosaur

scientific article published on 25 May 2022

Fossil that fills a critical gap in avian evolution

scientific article

Fossilization transforms vertebrate hard tissue proteins into N-heterocyclic polymers

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Fossils and avian evolution

scientific article published in Nature

Fossils of the Flaming Cliffs

Gigantism and comparative life-history parameters of tyrannosaurid dinosaurs

scientific article

Gradual assembly of avian body plan culminated in rapid rates of evolution across the dinosaur-bird transition

scientific article

Growth patterns in brooding dinosaurs reveals the timing of sexual maturity in non-avian dinosaurs and genesis of the avian condition

scientific article

High-resolution X-ray computed tomography of an Early Cretaceous gekkonomorph (Squamata) from Öösh (Övörkhangai; Mongolia)

Implications of flexible-shelled eggs in a Cretaceous choristoderan reptile

scientific article (publication date: 22 April 2010)

Important features of the dromaeosaur skeleton : information from a new specimen

scientific article published in 1997

Important features of the dromaeosaurid skeleton. 2, Information from newly collected specimens of Velociraptor mongoliensis

scientific article published in 1999

Late Cenozoic lizards of the Anza Borrego Desert, California

Measures of stratigraphic fit to phylogeny and their sensitivity to tree size, tree shape, and scale

scholarly article by Diego Pol et al published February 2004 in Cladistics

Medullary bone in an Early Cretaceous enantiornithine bird and discussion regarding its identification in fossils

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Modularity and heterochrony in the evolution of the ceratopsian dinosaur frill

scientific article published on 22 May 2020

Naming names

New Fossil Birds from the Earliest Eocene of Mongolia

scientific article published in 2019

New Materials ofEstesia mongoliensis(Squamata: Anguimorpha) and the Evolution of Venom Grooves in Lizards

scientific article published in 2013

New Specimens of Anchiornis huxleyi (Theropoda: Paraves) from the Late Jurassic of Northeastern China

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New evidence for late mesozoic-early Cenozoic evolution of the Chilean Andes in the upper Tinguiririca valley (35 °S), central Chile

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New material ofMongolemys elegansKhosatzky and Mlynarski, 1971 (Testudines: Lindholmemydidae), from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia with Comments on Bone Histology and Phylogeny

scientific article published in 2013

Non-avian dinosaur fossils from the Lower Cretaceous Jehol Group of western Liaoning, China

article

Novel neuroanatomical integration and scaling define avian brain shape evolution and development

scientific article published in 2021

Osteology of Gobiderma pulchrum (Monstersauria, Lepidosauria, Reptilia)

scientific article published on 30 December 2011

Osteology of Khaan mckennai (Oviraptorosauria: Theropoda)

scientific article published in 2012

Osteology of a New Late Cretaceous Troodontid Specimen from Ukhaa Tolgod, Ömnögovi Aimag, Mongolia

scientific article published in 2017

Osteology of a North American Goniopholidid (Eutretauranosuchus delfsi) and Palate Evolution in Neosuchia

scientific article published in 2013

Palaeontology: 'modern' feathers on a non-avian dinosaur

scientific article

Paleo-tribology: development of wear measurement techniques and a three-dimensional model revealing how grinding dentitions self-wear to enable functionality

Paleogene mammals from the Andes of central Chile : a preliminary taxonomic, biostratigraphic, and geochronologic assessment

scientific article published in 1994

Paleontology. Fossilized feathers

scientific article

Petreşti-Arini – An important but ephemeral Upper Cretaceous continental vertebrate site in the southwestern Transylvanian Basin, Romania

scientific article published in 2014

Phylogenetic corrections for morphological disparity analysis: new methodology and case studies

article

Potential for Powered Flight Neared by Most Close Avialan Relatives, but Few Crossed Its Thresholds

scientific article published on 05 August 2020

Preservation of feather fibers from the Late Cretaceous dinosaur Shuvuuia deserti raises concern about immunohistochemical analyses on fossils

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Prey choice and cannibalistic behaviour in the theropod Coelophysis

scientific article

Psittacosaurus amitabha, a New Species of Ceratopsian Dinosaur from the Ondai Sayr Locality, Central Mongolia

scholarly article by James G. Napoli et al published 2019 in American Museum Novitates

Rapid 18F-FDG Uptake in Brain of Awake, Behaving Rat and Anesthetized Chicken has Implications for Behavioral PET Studies in Species With High Metabolisms.

scientific article published on 5 June 2018

Reassessment of a Historical Collection of Sauropod Dinosaurs from the Northern Morrison Formation of Wyoming, with Implications for Sauropod Biogeography

scientific article published on 04 November 2019

Reconsidering the Avian Nature of the Oviraptorosaur Brain (Dinosauria: Theropoda).

scientific article

Reconstructing the Specimens and History of Howe Quarry (Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation; Wyoming)

scientific article published in 2020

Reconstruction of Microraptor and the evolution of iridescent plumage

scientific article

Redescription of a Nearly Complete Skull ofPlateosaurus(Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) from the Late Triassic of Trossingen (Germany)

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Reidentification of avian embryonic remains from the cretaceous of mongolia

scientific article

Reply to: Egg pigmentation probably has an Archosaurian origin

scientific article published on 19 June 2019

Reply: Theropod-bird link reconsidered

scientific article published in Nature

Rhetoric vs. reality: A commentary on “Bird Origins Anew” by A. Feduccia

scientific article published in 2015

South America's earliest rodent and recognition of a new interval of mammalian evolution

scientific article published in Nature

Spatial and Temporal Distribution of the Island-Dwelling Kogaionidae (Mammalia, Multituberculata) in the Uppermost Cretaceous of Transylvania (Western Romania)

scientific article published in 2022

Subaqueous foraging among carnivorous dinosaurs

scientific article published on 23 March 2022

Synopsis of Late Jurassic marine reptiles from Cuba

scholarly article by Manuel Iturralde-Vinent & Mark Norell published 1996 in American Museum Novitates

Taxonomic Composition and Systematics of Late Cretaceous Lizard Assemblages from Ukhaa Tolgod and Adjacent Localities, Mongolian Gobi Desert

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Taxonomic revision of Carusia (Reptilia, Squamata) from the late Cretaceous of the Gobi Desert and phylogenetic relationships of anguimorphan lizards

scientific article published in 1998

Tempo and Pattern of Avian Brain Size Evolution

scientific article published on 18 April 2020

Thalassodromeus sebesensis — A new name for an old turtle. Comment on “ Thalassodromeus sebesensis , an out of place and out of time Gondwanan tapejarid pterosaur”, Grellet-Tinner and Codrea (online July 2014 DOI 10.1016/j.gr.2014.06.002)

scientific article published in 2015

The Anatomy ofDryptosaurus aquilunguis(Dinosauria: Theropoda) and a Review of Its Tyrannosauroid Affinities

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The Braincase Anatomy of the Late Cretaceous DinosaurAlioramus(Theropoda: Tyrannosauroidea)

scientific article published in 2013

The Cranial Pneumatic Sinuses of the TyrannosauridAlioramus(Dinosauria: Theropoda) and the Evolution of Cranial Pneumaticity in Theropod Dinosaurs

scientific article published in 2013

The Early Cretaceous crocodylomorph Hylaeochampsa vectiana from the wealden of the Isle of Wight

scientific article published in 1992

The East Side Story – The Transylvanian latest Cretaceous continental vertebrate record and its implications for understanding Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary events

scientific article published in 2016

The Endocranial Cavity of Oviraptorosaur Dinosaurs and the Increasingly Complex, Deep History of the Avian Brain

The Geology of Ukhaa Tolgod (Djadokhta Formation, Upper Cretaceous, Nemegt Basin, Mongolia)

scientific article published in 2008

The Illusory Evidence for Asian Brachiosauridae: New Material ofErketu ellisoniand a Phylogenetic Reappraisal of Basal Titanosauriformes

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The Late Cretaceous alligatoroid Brachychampsa montana (Crocodylia) : new material and putative relationships

scientific article published in 1994

The Morphology and Phylogenetic Position of Apsaravis ukhaana from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia

scholarly article by Julia A. Clarke & Mark A. Norell published December 2002 in American Museum Novitates

The Osteology of Alioramus, A Gracile and Long-Snouted Tyrannosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia

scientific article published in 2012

The Osteology of Balaur bondoc, an Island-Dwelling Dromaeosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Late Cretaceous of Romania

scientific article published in 2013

The Osteology of Haya griva (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia

scientific article published on 22 February 2021

The Perinate Skull of Byronosaurus (Troodontidae) with Observations on the Cranial Ontogeny of Paravian Theropods

scientific article published in 2009

The bony labyrinth of Platecarpus (Squamata: Mosasauria) and aquatic adaptations in squamate reptiles

The braincases of two glyptosaurines (anguidae, Squamata) and anguid phylogeny

scholarly article by Jack L. Conrad & Mark A. Norell published 2008 in American Museum Novitates

The burrowing origin of modern snakes

scientific article

The developing bird pelvis passes through ancestral dinosaurian conditions

scientific article published on 27 July 2022

The earliest iguanine lizard (Reptilia, Squamata) and its bearing on iguanine phylogeny

scientific article published in 1991

The evolution of the manus of early theropod dinosaurs is characterized by high inter- and intraspecific variation

scientific article published on 8 November 2017

The extinction of the dinosaurs

scientific article

The first dinosaur egg was soft

scientific article published on 17 June 2020

The first endocast of the extinct dodo (Raphus cucullatus) and an anatomical comparison amongst close relatives (Aves, Columbiformes)

scientific article published on 23 February 2016

The mapping and differentiation of biological and environmental elemental signatures in the fossil remains of a 50 million year old bird

article

The origin and early radiation of dinosaurs

scholarly article

The skull of a relative of the stem-group bird Mononykus

scientific article published in Nature

The skull roof tracks the brain during the evolution and development of reptiles including birds

article

The theropod furcula

scientific article

Two feathered dinosaurs from northeastern China

scientific article published in Nature

Two new oviraptorids (Theropoda: Oviraptorosauria), Upper Cretaceous Djadokhta Formation, Ukhaa Tolgod, Mongolia

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Tyrannosaur paleobiology: new research on ancient exemplar organisms

scientific article

Uncertainty in the age of fossils and the stratigraphic fit to phylogenies

scientific article published in June 2006

Variation of osteocyte lacunae size within the tetrapod skeleton: implications for palaeogenomics

scientific article (publication date: 23 October 2011)

Variation, variability, and the origin of the avian endocranium: insights from the anatomy of Alioramus altai (Theropoda: Tyrannosauroidea)

scientific article published in 2011

Vertebral Pneumaticity in the Ornithomimosaur Archaeornithomimus (Dinosauria: Theropoda) Revealed by Computed Tomography Imaging and Reappraisal of Axial Pneumaticity in Ornithomimosauria

scientific article

Was dinosaurian physiology inherited by birds? Reconciling slow growth in archaeopteryx

scientific article published in 2009

Wasatchian (early Eocene) mammals and other vertebrates from Baja California, Mexico : the Lomas Las Tetas de Cabra fauna

scientific article published in 1991

Wear biomechanics in the slicing dentition of the giant horned dinosaur Triceratops

scientific article