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The Rise of Birds
225 Million Years of Evolution

By Chatterjee, Sankar

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ISBN: 0801856159 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Published: Nov 1 1997 Weight: 2.50lbs. Height: 11.00" Width: 8.25" Depth: 1.00" Language: English

Publisher's Comments
Paleontologist Chatterjee synthesizes the research and debates around the evolution of some dinosaurs into birds, meanwhile explaining and defending his controversial assertion that a Triassic fossil he found in 1983 in west Texas was a bird 75 million older than they were thought to exist. He explains the design of an airframe, his discovery and the creature he thinks it was, Jurassic and Cretaceous birds, eggs and embryos, feathers and footprints, the origin of flight, and other aspects. Readers lacking depth in skeletal anatomy will find much of the text flying high above them. Highly and informatively illustrated in black and white. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.