Dinosaurs of the Air
Subtitle: The Evolution and Loss of Flight in Dinosaurs and Birds
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: April 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9780801867637
Subjects: Evolution; Palaeontology; Popular science; Organic Evolution; Vertebrate Paleontology; Science; Science/Mathematics; Paleontology; Birds & Birdwatching - General; Life Sciences - Evolution; Science / Biology; Birds, Fossil; Birds; Flight
First sentence: The history of avian flight began far back in the Mesozoic Era and continues today as humans research the complex story and add new fossils to fuel debate.
Description: "Dinosaurs of the Air: The Evolution and Loss of Flight in Dinosaurs and Birds presents the most recent work of renowned evolutionary scientist and dinosaur illustrator Gregory Paul. Dinosaurs of the Air synthesizes the growing body of evidence which suggests that modern-day birds have evolved from theropod dinosaurs of prehistoric times.

Paul argues provocatively for the idea that the ancestor-descendant relationship between the dinosaurs and birds can on occasion be reversed, and that many dinosaurs were secondarily flightless descendants of creatures we would regard as birds."--BOOK JACKET.