First Report of a Hollow Cranial Crest in an Early-Diverging Duck-Billed Dinosaur, with Implications for Convergent Evolution of Acoustic Signaling
and late-branching lambeosaurines reveal a striking morphological and functional convergence that would likely facilitate safer, more efficient social communication among hadrosauroids. This convergence can be explained by adaptive evolution under similar selection pressures, combined with developmental constraints due to gene pleiotropy.
Authors
- Hanwei Yao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-3829-6704)
- Guangbiao Wei
- Zhengting Zou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1716-5090)
- Jordan C. Mallon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8209-8827)
- Ming Xiao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3532-4684)
- Jun Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4383-3956)
- Hui Dai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-1303-1521)
- Jie Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3435-0351)
- Qingyu Ma
- Yubo Ma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-3290-6811)
- Chao Tan
- Y Yanliu Lin
- Hai Xing
Institutions
- National Museum of China (CN)
- Chongqing University (CN)
- Yunnan University (CN)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- China University of Geosciences (CN)
- China University of Geosciences (Beijing) (CN)
- Chongqing Academy of Environmental Science (CN)
- Chongqing Bureau of Geology and Minerals Exploration (CN)
- Canadian Museum of Nature (CA)
- Beijing Museum of Natural History (CN)
- Institute of Zoology (CN)
- Carleton University (CA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Biology
- Published
- 2026-04-13
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/biology15080615
- Primary Topic
- Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing