Zhe‐Xi Luo

University of Illinois Chicago — United States

Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Evolution and Paleontology Studies(97), Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology(77), Ichthyology and Marine Biology(32), Bat Biology and Ecology Studies(24), Marine animal studies overview(21)

Publications139 total

Biomechanics of the mandibular middle ear of the cynodont <i>Thrinaxodon</i> and the evolution of mammal hearing
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Review for "A subantarctic reigitheriid and the evolution of crushing teeth in these enigmatic Mesozoic mammals"
2025
Diverse Tongue Base Retraction Strategies Drive Bolus Propulsion during Mammalian Swallowing
Integrative and Comparative Biology·2025
A jaw-dropping discovery about early mammals
Nature·2024
A new biomechanical model of the mammal jaw based on load path analysis
Journal of Experimental Biology·2024· 6 citedOpen Access
Jurassic fossil juvenile reveals prolonged life history in early mammals
Nature·2024· 7 cited
A new symmetrodont mammal from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota of Ningcheng Basin, Inner Mongolia, Northeast China
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Three-dimensional mandibular kinematics of mastication in the marsupial<i>Didelphis virginiana</i>
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2023· 16 citedOpen Access
Head posture impacts mammalian hyoid position and suprahyoid muscle length: implication for swallowing biomechanics
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2023· 4 citedOpen Access
A new dryolestid fossil from the Late Jurassic illuminates molar root structure of dryolestids
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology·2023· 1 cited
3D hyoid and tongue kinematics reveal mechanism of tongue base retraction during swallowing in Didelphis virginiana
Physiology·2023
Functional reorganisation of the cranial skeleton during the cynodont–mammaliaform transition
Communications Biology·2023· 10 citedOpen Access
Mandibular and dental characteristics of the Late Jurassic mammal Henkelotherium guimarotae (Paurodontidae, Dryolestida)
Paläontologische Zeitschrift·2023· 7 cited
Author Correction: Inner ear biomechanics reveals a Late Triassic origin for mammalian endothermy
Nature·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
The earliest segmental sternum in a Permian synapsid and its implications for the evolution of mammalian locomotion and ventilation
Scientific Reports·2022· 10 citedOpen Access
Inner ear biomechanics reveals a Late Triassic origin for mammalian endothermy
Nature·2022· 56 citedOpen Access
Evolution of inner ear neuroanatomy of bats and implications for echolocation
Nature·2022· 37 cited
Reexamination of the Mandibular and Dental Morphology of the Early Jurassic Mammaliaform Hadrocodium wui
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica·2022· 11 citedOpen Access
The functional diversity of marsupial limbs is influenced by both ecology and developmental constraint
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society·2021· 10 citedOpen Access
Postcrania of <i>Borealestes</i> (Mammaliformes, Docodonta) and the emergence of ecomorphological diversity in early mammals
Palaeontology·2021· 15 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Qiang Ji(10), Chong-Xi Yuan(7), Qingjin Meng(7), John R. Wible(5), Zofia Kielan‐Jaworowska(5), Richard L. Cifelli(5), Yuguang Zhang(5), Di Liu(5), David M. Grossnickle(5), Thomas Martin(5), A. W. Crompton(4), Jonathan H. Geisler(3), Irina Ruf(3), Julia A. Schultz(3), April I. Neander(3), Justin A. Georgi(2), Alan R. Tabrum(2), Gang Li(2), Neil H. Shubin(2), Spencer G. Lucas(2)