Publications by authors named "B Breithaupt"
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- Pterosaurs, the first flying vertebrates, had a significant impact on Mesozoic ecosystems, but their ground movement and terrestrial ecology are not well understood.
- Research shows that pterosaurs had a diverse range of hand and foot structures, similar to modern birds, which indicates they adapted to various non-flying lifestyles, with early species showing traits for climbing and later ones for ground movement.
- The evolution of ground-based locomotion in pterosaurs involved changes in anatomy, allowing them to exploit terrestrial environments and leading to new feeding strategies and larger body sizes across different lineages.
Relationships between non-avian theropod dinosaurs and extant and fossil birds are a major focus of current paleobiological research. Despite extensive phylogenetic and morphological support, behavioural evidence is mostly ambiguous and does not usually fossilize. Thus, inferences that dinosaurs, especially theropods displayed behaviour analogous to modern birds are intriguing but speculative.
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