Data from: Body size evolution on islands: are adult size variations in tiger snakes a non-adaptive consequence of selection on birth size?

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Biogeography;Body Size;Island;Snake;Notechis scutatus

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doi:10.5061/dryad.14cr5345

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Mean adult size has been used as the traditional measure of body size to explain trends of insular gigantism and dwarfism in a wide array of taxa

Data from: The diverse fossil chelonians from Milia (Late Pliocene, Grevena, Greece) with a new species of Testudo Linnaeus, 1758 (Testudines: Testudinidae)

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Neogene;Chersus;Testudo brevitesta;Tertiary;Testudona;Testudines;Cenozoic;Testudinidae;Pliocene;Chelonians;Testudo marginata

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doi:10.5061/dryad.6970v

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examples of the trend towards gigantism evidenced by the diverse fauna of Milia. In terms of taxonomic abundance of extinct turtles, this is the richest

Data from: Ancient DNA reveals elephant birds and kiwi are sister taxa and clarifies ratite bird evolution

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Tertiary;Mullerornis;Palaeocene;Eocene;Cretaceous;Aepyornithidae;Aepyornis;Palaeognathae;phylogenetics;Miocene;molecular dating;Cenozoic;Aves

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doi:10.5061/dryad.2727k

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al vicariance and instead supports flighted dispersal in all major ratite lineages. We suggest that convergence toward gigantism and flightlessness

Data from: Does relaxed predation drive phenotypic divergence among insular populations?

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Population Divergence;Podarcis gaigeae;Predation release;speciation;island gigantism;Adaptation;natural selection

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doi:10.5061/dryad.h61v0

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to lower escape propensity, increase body size and relax selection for crypsis in small-bodied, insular prey species. Here, we investiga

Data from: Mainland size variation informs predictive models of exceptional insular body size change in rodents

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decision tree;mammal;Biogeography;Island;Rodent;Rodentia;Body Size

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doi:10.5061/dryad.sd6nj

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e typical in body size. We find that although insular rodents vary in the directions of body size change, ‘extreme’ populations tend towards gigantism

Data from: Rapid transformation in the braincase of sauropod dinosaurs: integrated evolution of the braincase and neck in early sauropods?

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Sauropodomorph;rates of evolution;phylogeny;morphological disparity;Sauropodomorpha

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doi:10.5061/dryad.6j336

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. Recent discoveries have shown that key traits associated with sauropod gigantism appeared stepwise during the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic

Data from: Comparative cranial myology and biomechanics of Plateosaurus and Camarasaurus and evolution of the sauropod feeding apparatus

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David Button

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Palaeontology Finite-element analysis biomechanics finite element analysis herbivory palaeoecology virtual reconstruction

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doi:10.5061/dryad.vr954

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and the evolution of gigantism.