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SUBMITTER: Yoshida J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9932143 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yoshida Junki J Kobayashi Yoshitsugu Y Norell Mark A MA
Communications biology 20230215 1
A voice box (larynx) is unique for tetrapods and plays functional roles in respiration, airway protection, and vocalization. However, in birds and other reptiles, the larynx fossil is extremely rare, and the evolution of this structure remains largely unknown. Here we report the fossil larynx found in non-avian dinosaurs from ankylosaur Pinacosaurus grangeri. The larynx of Pinacosaurus is composed of the cricoid and arytenoid like non-avian reptiles, but specialized with the firm and kinetic cri ...[more]