Smart-winged pterosaurs

Nature

Volumn 425, Issue 6961, 2003, Pages 910-911

  Unwin, David M ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLIGHT DYNAMICS; WINGS;

PTEROSAUR SKULLS;

BRAIN;

BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM FLOCCULUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEEDING; FLYING; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTEROSAUR; REPTILE; SEMICIRCULAR CANAL; SHORT SURVEY; SKULL; X RAY; ANIMAL; BIRD; BODY POSTURE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; NOTE; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY;

REPTILIA;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; FOSSILS; NEUROANATOMY; ORGAN SIZE; POSTURE; REPTILES; SKULL;

EID: 0642275726     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/425910b     Document Type: Short Survey

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