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Michael Habib
PeerJ Author & Reviewer
785 Points

Contributions by role

Author 540
Preprint Author 35
Reviewer 210
Comment 1
Answers 15

Contributions by subject area

Paleontology
Evolutionary Studies
Taxonomy
Zoology
Biophysics
Animal Behavior

By Q&A topic

Evolutionary-studies
Paleontology

Michael B Habib

PeerJ Author & Reviewer

Summary

Dr. Habib spends his time teaching human gross anatomy and studying strange creatures from the deep past of Earth's history. He is particularly fond of publishing works on giant flying reptiles and early birds. Dr. Habib received a B.A. in Biology from the University of Virginia in 2001, and a M.S. from the same institution in 2004. He completed his Ph.D. in Functional Anatomy at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 2011. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine at UCLA and a Research Associate at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

Anatomy & Physiology Biodiversity Paleontology

Past or current institution affiliations

UCLA Library
University of Southern California

Work details

Adjunct Associate Professor

University of California, Los Angeles
May 2021
Medicine

Research Associate

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 5
  • Preprints 1
  • Reviewed 5
  • Answers 1
July 18, 2024
Intraspecific variation in the pterosaur Rhamphorhynchus muensteri—implications for flight and socio-sexual signaling
Michael B. Habib, David WE. Hone
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17524 PubMed 39035160
December 14, 2018
Evidence for the Cretaceous shark Cretoxyrhina mantelli feeding on the pterosaur Pteranodon from the Niobrara Formation
David W.E. Hone, Mark P. Witton, Michael B. Habib
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6031 PubMed 30581660
July 7, 2016
The wings before the bird: an evaluation of flapping-based locomotory hypotheses in bird antecedents
T. Alexander Dececchi, Hans C.E. Larsson, Michael B. Habib
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2159 PubMed 27441115
August 20, 2015
A specimen of Rhamphorhynchus with soft tissue preservation, stomach contents and a putative coprolite
David Hone, Donald M. Henderson, François Therrien, Michael B. Habib
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1191 PubMed 26312182
January 2, 2014
A new specimen of the Early Cretaceous bird Hongshanornis longicresta: insights into the aerodynamics and diet of a basal ornithuromorph
Luis M. Chiappe, Bo Zhao, Jingmai K. O’Connor, Gao Chunling, Xuri Wang, Michael Habib, Jesus Marugan-Lobon, Qingjin Meng, Xiaodong Cheng
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.234 PubMed 24482756
January 23, 2016 - Version: 1
The wings before the bird: an evaluation of flapping-based locomotory hypotheses in bird antecedents
T. Alexander Dececchi, Hans CE Larsson, Michael B Habib
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1676v1

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August 5, 2024
Modelling take-off moment arms in an ornithocheiraean pterosaur
Benjamin W. Griffin, Elizabeth Martin-Silverstone, Rodrigo V. Pêgas, Erik Anthony Meilak, Fabiana R. Costa, Colin Palmer, Emily J. Rayfield
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17678 PubMed 39119105
February 21, 2024
Arthrological reconstructions of the pterosaur neck and their implications for the cervical position at rest
Richard Buchmann, Taissa Rodrigues
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16884 PubMed 38406270
February 21, 2019
Lower rotational inertia and larger leg muscles indicate more rapid turns in tyrannosaurids than in other large theropods
Eric Snively, Haley O’Brien, Donald M. Henderson, Heinrich Mallison, Lara A. Surring, Michael E. Burns, Thomas R. Holtz, Anthony P. Russell, Lawrence M. Witmer, Philip J. Currie, Scott A. Hartman, John R. Cotton
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6432 PubMed 30809441
October 20, 2016
The influence of flight style on the aerodynamic properties of avian wings as fixed lifting surfaces
John J. Lees, Grigorios Dimitriadis, Robert L. Nudds
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2495 PubMed 27781155
June 16, 2015
Were early pterosaurs inept terrestrial locomotors?
Mark P. Witton
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1018 PubMed 26157605

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