Bone microstructure supports a Mesozoic origin for a semiaquatic burrowing lifestyle in monotremes (Mammalia)

Suzanne Hand; Laura Wilson; Camilo López-Aguirre; Alexandra Houssaye; Michael Archer; Joseph Bevitt; Alistair Evans; Amalia Halim; Tzong-tyng Hung; Thomas Rich; Patricia Vickers-Rich; Robin Beck

Bone microstructure supports a Mesozoic origin for a semiaquatic burrowing lifestyle in monotremes (Mammalia)

Suzanne Hand^*
, Laura Wilson^*
, Camilo López-Aguirre
, Alexandra Houssaye
, Michael Archer
, Joseph Bevitt
, Alistair Evans
, Amalia Halim
, Tzong-tyng Hung
, Thomas Rich
, Patricia Vickers-Rich
, Robin Beck

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Archaeology & Anthropology

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Original language	English
Article number	e2413569122
Number of pages	12
Journal	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Volume	122
Issue number	19
Publication status	Published - 28 Apr 2025

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Hand, S., Wilson, L., López-Aguirre, C., Houssaye, A., Archer, M., Bevitt, J., Evans, A., Halim, A., Hung, T., Rich, T., Vickers-Rich, P., & Beck, R. (2025). Bone microstructure supports a Mesozoic origin for a semiaquatic burrowing lifestyle in monotremes (Mammalia). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122(19), Article e2413569122. https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2413569122

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