March 19 (UPI) --Mammals boast an unprecedented diversity of forelimbs, allowing mammalian species to adopt a variety of lifestyles and adapt to a wide range of habitats. According to a new study, the ...

Mammals are the only living members of the larger clade Synapsida, which has a fossil record spanning 320 Ma. Despite the fact that much of the ecological diversity of mammals has been considered in ...

Using a highly-detailed musculoskeletal model of an echidna forelimb, scientists are not only shedding new light on how the little-studied echidna's forelimb works, but are also opening a window into ...

Researchers report the evolutionary origins of morphological diversity in mammal forelimbs. Mammals exhibit diverse forelimb structures that reflect a range of ecological, behavioral, and locomotor ...

These days, mammals can use their forelimbs to swim, jump, fly, climb, dig and just about everything in between, but the question of how all that diversity evolved has remained a vexing one for ...

The limb is widely used as a model in developmental biology. Although the signalling pathways involved in limb development are largely conserved, striking morphological differences are observed among ...

A new genus and species of plesiopedal mosasauroid, Portunatasaurus krambergeri, from the Cenomanian– Turonian (Late Cretaceous) of Croatia is described. An articulated skeleton, representing an ...

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