...Nicholas B. Sakich; Glenn J. Tattersall ABSTRACT Whether scales reduce cutaneous evaporative water loss in lepidosaur reptiles (Superorder Lepidosauria) such as lizards and snakes has been a contentious issue for nearly half a century. Furthermore, while many studies have looked at whether...

... of the postorbital bar in resisting the feeding loads. Lepidosauria Squamata Skull Feeding Finite element analysis Multibody dynamic analysis Lepidosaurs, and particularly lizards (i.e. non-ophidian squamates), exhibit a remarkable anatomical and ecological diversity and have been used as a model...

... the clade Lepidosauria was randomly chosen with respect to the hypotheses. Because of the wide diversity in size and cranial design, the long branches joining them, and the fact that only four species were sampled, the species were assumed to be independent, i.e. phylogeny was not taken into account. Bite...