Images by Emily Willoughby (top left), Matthew Martyniuk (bottom left), and John Conway (at right).
Several of the diagrams here are from my review of bird diversity and evolution (Naish 2012). For Tet Zoo articles on various of the subjects illustrated here, see...
- Gary Kaiser’s The Inner Bird: Anatomy and Evolution
- Luis Chiappe’s Glorified Dinosaurs: The Origin and Early Evolution of Birds
- Thor Hanson’s Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle
- Dyke & Kaiser’s Living Dinosaurs: the Evolutionary History of Modern Birds
- Getting a major chapter on birds – ALL birds – into a major book on dinosaurs
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Naish, D. 2012. Birds. In Brett-Surman, M. K., Holtz, T. R. & Farlow, J. O. (eds) The Complete Dinosaur (Second Edition). Indiana University Press (Bloomington & Indianapolis), pp. 379-423.
