“I built this big family tree that put into context where birds fit in. Who their closest relatives were among dinosaurs, and the pattern of relationships for the very earliest birds,” says Steve.

The densely wooded swamps, located along a major ... That’s because today’s birds are the last remaining twig on an otherwise demolished dinosaur family tree, grown from fierce predators ...

For centuries, scientists have been piecing together the evolutionary puzzle of birds, the sole survivors of the dinosaur ...

Maybe you imagine large armored dinosaurs like Ankylosaurus or Stegosaurus. But for Jingmai O’Connor, the dinosaurs she studies – look a lot more like birds. “If you looked at an artist’s ...

Steve’s PhD saw him build a family tree of meat-eating dinosaurs, the therapods such as T-Rex and velociraptor group. This was the group that evolved into birds, and Steve’s work showed when ...