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Tail shedding in two Cretaceous lizards: autotomic structures revealed by X-ray CT scanning

Hou,Shilin et al.
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Tail shedding is a widespread anti-predator strategy in modern lizards, facilitated by specialized autotomic structures in the caudal vertebrae. These structures include a fracture plane and, in some taxa, a pseudospine that creates predetermined breaking points along the tail. In caudal vertebrae,
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