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Glorified Dinosaurs: The Origin and Early Evolution of Birds
ISBN: 978-0-471-24723-4
Hardcover
192 pages
February 2007
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Preface.

Chapter One. Mesozoinc Birds and Their World.

Chapter Two. The Ancestry of Birds and the Origin of Flight.

Chapter Three: The Bizarre Mononykus and its Kin: An Evolutionary Experiment.

Chapter Four. Archaeopteryz: The Earliest Bird.

Chapter Five. Rahonavis and Other Long-tailed Birds.

Chapter Six. The Firs Short-Tailed Birds.

Chapter Seven. The Great Mesozoic Radiation: The Flying Enantiornithes.

Chapter Eight. Early Predecessors of Modern Birds.

Chapter Nine. Hesperornis and its relatives: Divers of the Cretaceous Seas.

Chapter Ten. The Beginnings of Modern Birds.

Epilogue.

Acknowledgements.

Glossary.

Index.

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