Insight into the evolutionary assemblage of cranial kinesis from a Cretaceous bird
The independent movements and flexibility of various parts of the skull, called cranial kinesis, are an evolutionary innovation that is found in living vertebrates only in some squamates and crown birds and is considered to be a major factor underpinning much of the enormous phenotypic and ecologica...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
2022-12-01
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| Series: | eLife |
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| Online Access: | https://elifesciences.org/articles/81337 |