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• Towards the end of the Triassic, several new and more advanced archosaur groups evolved from the thecodonts.
• Continue reading "Chicken, archosaur...same difference" on Pharyngula Chicken, archosaur...same difference - The Panda's Thumb
• I also read more of the December issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology — "Comparison and biomechanical interpretations of the vertebrae and osteoderms of Cacops aspidephorus and Dissorophus multicinctus (Temnospondyli; Dissorophoridae)," and "A possible new ctenosauriscid archosaur from the Middle Triassic Manda Beds of Tanzania. What I Did During My Plague Vacation ( by Me)
• By demonstrating one-way or "unidirectional" airflow within the lungs of alligators, the new study - published in the Friday, Jan. 15 issue of the journal Science - means that such a breathing pattern likely evolved before 246 million years ago, when crocodilians split from the branch of the archosaur family tree that led to pterosaurs, dinosaurs and birds. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
• And the presence of the glands in this location might explain another unusual aspect of metriorhynchid cranial anatomy, namely the strange elongate, groove-like antorbital fossae present in these animals (the antorbital fossa is an accessory opening present on the side of the skull in archosaurs). My party and those marvellous metriorhynchids
• Belief in increasing archosaur homeothermy stems from the earlier discussion of the apparent change in posture.
• I may have to send this news article to school with her: investigators have found that a mutation in chickens causes them to develop teeth—and the teeth resemble those of the common ancestor of alligators and chickens, an archosaur. Chicken, archosaur...same difference - The Panda's Thumb
• Tyrannosaurs are surprisingly common in many North American fossil beds, especially their large, serrated teeth which they shed periodically like most archosaurs.
• Among the remnants are rare fragments of land life that survived the same period, including part of a conifer plant and the tooth of an archosaur reptile. Fossil hunters uncover complete 252m year-old underwater world
• There were three distinctive characteristics about the archosaurs that paleontologists discovered marked them off from their antecedents.