Growth and miniaturization among alvarersauroid dinosaurs

Qin, ZC; Zhao, Q; Choiniere, JN; Clark, JM; Benton, MJ; Xu, X

Xu, X (corresponding author), Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Evolutionary Systemat Vertebrates, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China.; Xu, X (corresponding author), Chinese Acad Sci, Ctr Excellence Life & Paleoenvironm, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China.

CURRENT BIOLOGY, 2021; 31 (16): 3687

Abstract

Sustained miniaturization, here defined as a drop in body size of at least two orders of magnitude from ancestors to descendants, is a widespread and ......

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