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ANNUAL REVIEW OF EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCES, VOL 42
卷 42, 期 -, 页码 675-+出版社
ANNUAL REVIEWS
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-earth-060313-054858
关键词
growth curves; histology; birds; physiology; evolution
资金
- Division Of Earth Sciences
- Directorate For Geosciences [0958972, 0959029] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Earth Sciences
- Directorate For Geosciences [1226704, 1226730] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Despite nearly two centuries of investigation, a comprehensive understanding of dinosaur biology has proven intractable. The recent development of means to study tissue-level growth, age these animals, and make growth curves has revolutionized our knowledge of dinosaur lives. From such data it is now understood that dinosaurs grew both disruptively and determinately; that they rarely if ever exceeded a century in age; that they became giants through accelerated growth and dwarfed through truncated development; that they were likely endothermic, sexually matured like crocodiles, and showed survivorship like populations of large mammals; and that basal birds retained dinosaurian physiology.
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