In 1861, paleontologists unearthed a dinosaur fossil that looked like a bird! Archaeopteryx, as this species is known today, was a link between ancient dinosaurs and modern birds. In this guide, based
Knowledge of the evolutionary history of birds has much improved in recent decades. Fossils from critical time periods are being described at unprecedented rates and modern phylogenetic analyses have
Examining and interpreting recent spectacular fossil discoveries in China, paleontologists have arrived at a prevailing view: there is now incontrovertible evidence that birds represent the last livin
Introduces the archaeopteryx, describes in graphic novel form its life cycle from a clutch of eggs to a young adult finding a mate, and provides information on archaeopteryx fossils and the other crea
The intriguing story of the controversy and personality clashes behind the discovery of the moa in the nineteenth century. In 1839, on the basis of a single fragment of bone from the other side of th
Did Dinosaurs Have Feathers? Birds have feathers, but did you know some dinosaurs did too? New fossils have shown that as long as 145 million years ago, some dinosaurs had feathers, just as birds do.
Over millions of years, Australia’s unique biodiversity has produced a large cabinet of curiosities. Among the weirder members of this group were the Mihirungs, members of the now extinct family Dromo
Our knowledge of the origin and early evolution of birds has exploded in the past ten to fifteen years. In the 1990s alone, scientists became aware of approximately three times more species of early b
While a growing number of scientists are arguing that birds descended directly from dinosaurs, scientific illustrator Paul goes further in contending that some of the creatures we think of as dinosaur
In 1861, just a few years after the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, a scientist named Hermann von Meyer made an amazing discovery. Hidden in the Bavarian region of Germany wa
