Nat Commun March 2023 PMID 36949094

Decoupling body shape and mass distribution in birds and their dinosaurian ancestors.

Sophie Macaulay, Tatjana Hoehfurtner, Samuel R R Cross, Ryan D Marek, John R Hutchinson, Emma R Schachner, Alice E Maher, Karl T Bates

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The study challenges the traditional view that body shape and mass distribution in birds and their dinosaur ancestors are strictly linked, showing instead that these features evolved somewhat independently based on their lifestyle needs.
Using image-based models, the research finds that terrestrial and flying animals occupy different areas of "centre-of-mass morphospace," reflecting the different physical demands of walking and flying, rather than a simple evolutionary progression.
The findings suggest that certain body and mass features, like those needed for flight, developed gradually and separately from limb proportions, with fully crouched bipedalism likely evolving after powered flight had already been established.]

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