Functional Morphology

Publications

Powerful or non-powerful? Revisiting hallucal grasping as a key evolutionary innovation in small arboreal mammals

Source
iScience - ISSN 2589-0042-29:6 (2026) p. 1-22
Author(s)
    Irene Montañez Rivera, Severine L.D. Toussaint, Alexander Stoessel, Armita R. Manafzadeh, Ute Radespiel, Vera Bruhn, Marie Newbon, John A. Nyakatura

Variable yet ubiquitous : hierarchical scaling of head functional morphology in lizards

Source
Evolution - ISSN 0014-3820- (2026) p.
Author(s)
    Pablo Vicent-Castello, Dean Adams, Claudia Amaranta Sicilia-Cebrian, Anthony Herrel, Antigoni Kaliontzopoulou

Brain size reduction in dogs was already established at least by the Late Neolithic of Western Europe, 5000 years ago

Source
Royal Society Open Science - ISSN 2054-5703-13:4 (2026) p. 1-14
Author(s)
    Thomas Cucchi, Lucile-Morgane Hays, Alessio Veneziano, Margot Michaud, Colline Brassard, Rose-Marie Arbogast, Pierre Petrequin, Mietje B. Germonpre, Evelyne Cregut-Bonnoure, Frederic Elleboudt, Kalman Czeibert, Laszlo Zsolt Garamszegi, Eniko Kubinyi, Niclas Kolm, Tibor Csorgo, Justine Joseph, Salome Leroy, Claude Guintard, Marion Fusellier, Christophe Duchamp, Anthony Herrel, Loukas George Koungoulos, Thomas J. Peachey, Lachie Scarsbrook, Laurent Frantz, Joan Madurell-Malapeira, Sandrine Ladeveze

Synergistic yet different : rethinking the gastrocnemii as two functionally distinct muscles

Source
Journal of biomechanics - ISSN 0021-9290-203 (2026) p. 1-7
Author(s)