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  • The origin of the unique turtle lung ventilatory apparatus is poorly understood. Here the authors show an increase in body wall rigidity early in evolution that allowed the abdominal muscles to become specialized for breathing and the ribs to eventually form the iconic turtle shell.

    • Tyler R. Lyson
    • Emma R. Schachner
    • Kevin de Queiroz
    Research
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 5, P: 1-11
  • Computed tomography and phylogenetic analysis of the Eunotosaurus africanus skull suggests that not only is Eunotosaurus an early relative of the group that eventually evolved into turtles, but that it is also a diapsid caught in the act of evolving towards a secondarily anapsid state.

    • G. S. Bever
    • Tyler R. Lyson
    • Bhart-Anjan S. Bhullar
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 525, P: 239-242