Convergent evolution of a mobile bony tongue in flighted dinosaurs and pterosaurs

• Zhiheng Li,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, CAS Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Beijing, China, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6968-6982

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• Zhonghe Zhou,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, CAS Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Beijing, China

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• Julia A. Clarke

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Julia_Clarke@jsg.utexas.edu

  Affiliation Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

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