| Complete Ichthyornis skull illuminates mosaic assembly of the avian head DJ Field, M Hanson, D Burnham, LE Wilson, K Super, D Ehret, ... Nature 557 (7703), 96-100, 2018 | 90 | 2018 |
| How to make a bird skull: major transitions in the evolution of the avian cranium, paedomorphosis, and the beak as a surrogate hand BAS Bhullar, M Hanson, M Fabbri, A Pritchard, GS Bever, E Hoffman Integrative and Comparative Biology 56 (3), 389-403, 2016 | 87 | 2016 |
| The skull roof tracks the brain during the evolution and development of reptiles including birds M Fabbri, N Mongiardino Koch, AC Pritchard, M Hanson, E Hoffman, ... Nature ecology & evolution 1 (10), 1543-1550, 2017 | 86 | 2017 |
| The early origin of a birdlike inner ear and the evolution of dinosaurian movement and vocalization M Hanson, EA Hoffman, MA Norell, BAS Bhullar Science 372 (6542), 601-609, 2021 | 31 | 2021 |
| A tiny Triassic saurian from Connecticut and the early evolution of the diapsid feeding apparatus AC Pritchard, JA Gauthier, M Hanson, GS Bever, BAS Bhullar Nature Communications 9 (1), 1213, 2018 | 29 | 2018 |
| Decelerated dinosaur skull evolution with the origin of birds RN Felice, A Watanabe, AR Cuff, M Hanson, BAS Bhullar, ER Rayfield, ... PLoS biology 18 (8), e3000801, 2020 | 27 | 2020 |
| Olfactory receptor gene evolution is unusually rapid across Tetrapoda and outpaces chemosensory phenotypic change LR Yohe, M Fabbri, M Hanson, BAS Bhullar Current Zoology 66 (5), 505-514, 2020 | 21 | 2020 |
| A shift in ontogenetic timing produced the unique sauropod skull M Fabbri, G Navalón, N Mongiardino Koch, M Hanson, H Petermann, ... Evolution 75 (4), 819-831, 2021 | 15 | 2021 |
| A new specimen of Torvosaurus tanneri originally collected by Elmer Riggs M Hanson, PJ Makovicky Historical Biology 26 (6), 775-784, 2014 | 12 | 2014 |
| The developing bird pelvis passes through ancestral dinosaurian conditions CT Griffin, JF Botelho, M Hanson, M Fabbri, D Smith-Paredes, RM Carney, ... Nature 608 (7922), 346-352, 2022 | 7 | 2022 |
| How do Crocodylian embryos process yolk? Morphological evidence from the American alligator, Alligator mississippiensis DG Blackburn, MS Barnes, CD Reimers, FA Appiah, LL Lestz, ... Journal of Morphology 282 (7), 953-958, 2021 | 6 | 2021 |
| Response to Comment on “The early origin of a birdlike inner ear and the evolution of dinosaurian movement and vocalization” M Hanson, EA Hoffman, MA Norell, BAS Bhullar Science 376 (6600), eabl8181, 2022 | 4 | 2022 |
| Aves JA Clarke, DP Mindell, K de Queiroz, M Hanson, MA Norell, JA Gauthier Phylonyms: A Companion to the PhyloCode, 2020 | 3 | 2020 |
