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Convergent evolution of a mobile bony tongue in flighted dinosaurs and pterosaurs

The tongue, with fleshy, muscular, and bony components, is an innovation of the earliest land-dwelling vertebrates with key functions in both feeding and respiration. Here, we bring together evidence from preserved hyoid elements from dinosaurs and outgroup archosaurs, including pterosaurs, with enh...

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Autores principales: Li, Zhiheng, Zhou, Zhonghe, Clarke, Julia A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6010247/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29924798
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0198078

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