Links & Books
Links
Dinobirds
www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/frontiers_20030430.shtml
This BBC 4 Radio program comments on specimens from the
Liaoning region of China, including the four-winged
Microraptor. Click the link under "Listen Again" to
hear the full program.
Liaoning Diorama
www.amnh.org/exhibitions/dinosaurs/diorama/
The American Museum of Natural History has created a
life-size diorama that recreates a section of forest in
ancient Liaoning Province. On the museum's Web site, view
photos from the exhibit and learn details about the
environment in which Microraptor lived.
Carnegie's Dinosaurs: A World Treasure
www.carnegiemnh.org/carnegiesdinosaurs
The Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh,
PA is home to some of the largest and rarest dinosaur fossils
known to man, including its newest addition, the feathered
Oviraptorosaur. Learn more about this bird-like
creature and the other fossils at the museum using this
interactive guide to dinosaurs.
Dino Directory
www.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/nature-online/dino-directory/
This site from the Natural History Museum in London,
England offers a searchable database of images for 325 of the
world's most well-documented dinosaurs.
The Dinosaur Museum
www.dinosaur-museum.org/featheredinosaurs/show.htm
In the 1980s, the Dinosaur Museum in Blanding, Utah
contracted artists Stephen and Sylvia Czerkas to build a
sculpture of the newly discovered Deinonychus. Nearly a
decade later, the Czerkases discovered that their scaly model
should actually have feathers. View a slide show chronicling
the transformation of the museum's raptor into a feathered
flightless bird.
Finding Fossils
www.sdnhm.org/kids/fossils/ffhow.html
Learn how paleontologists find, excavate, and clean
fossils on this interactive Web site.
Evolution
www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution
This companion site to the PBS television series
"Evolution" discusses a wide range of evolutionary topics,
from the science of selection to the extinction of species.
Books
Unearthing the Dragon: The Great Feathered Dinosaur
Discovery
by Mark Norell. Pi Press, 2005.
Feathered Dragons: Studies on the Transition from Dinosaurs
to Birds
by Philip Currie, Eva Koppelhus, Martin Shugar, and Joanna
Wright. Indiana University Press, 2004.
Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird
Flight
by Pat Shipman. Simon & Schuster, 1999.
Mesozoic Birds: Above the Heads of Dinosaurs
by Luis M. Chiappe (Editor), Lawrence M. Witmer. University of
California Press, 2002.
Dinosaurs of the Air: The Evolution and Loss of Flight in
Dinosaurs and Birds
by Gregory Paul. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
The Origin and Evolution of Birds
by Alan Feduccia. Yale University Press, 1999.
