Pterosaurs to Birds

This site presents the idea that birds developed from flying pterosaurs. This is a credible alternative to the current, mainstream idea that birds developed from land-based dinosaurs.

Saturday, May 2, 2015

Yi qi

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Yi qi study: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275669107_A_bizarre_Jurassic_maniraptoran_theropod_with_preserved_evidence_of_membran...

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Friday, January 9, 2015

Dino to bird - off on the wrong foot

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The revival of the dino to bird idea began with the work of John Ostrom in the 1970's. But Ostrom misinterpreted the flightless Deino...

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Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Dinosaur to bird - implausible rates of change

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For the dino to bird theory to be correct, the evolutionary rates must have been up to four times faster. But that would mean that for the d...

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Thursday, January 1, 2015

How did birds come into being?

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How did birds come into being? First we must distinguish between modern birds on the one hand, and their feathered ancestors called "b...

Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Pubis evolution

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http://pterosaurheresies.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/prepubes588.jpg Pterosaur pubis (in green) and prepubis (in yellow). The drawing of M...

Sunday, December 14, 2014

Feet

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Pterosaur feet are like basal paraves feet. Dinosaur feet are not like basal paraves feet. ivpp.cas.cn/qt/papers/201403/P0201403143935482...

Friday, December 12, 2014

Notable

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http://www.ivpp.ac.cn/qt/papers/201206/P020120604508520389814.pdf The [ Epidendrosaurus ] material described in this paper was collected f...

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