Let us begin by establishing the following facts as true: – I am not a monkey’s uncle, yet, in a certain way, I am....

Birds are a subset of dinosaurs (See: Honey, I Shrunk the Dinosaurs. Prior to the extinction of all of the other dinosaurs, resulting from...

My knowledge of dinosaurs started and stopped with Jurassic Park (the movie, not the theme park), Patrick’s Dinosaurs, a charming book my daughter read in grade school,...

There is a fantastic paper just out in Science: “Sustained miniaturization and anatomoical innovation in the dinosaurian anceestors of birds” by Michael Lee, Andrea...

It’s always good to be reminded that when you are looking at birds you are actually looking at dinosaurs. And xkcd is excellent at...

Most of the time when we think of birds, we think of the things that make them birds, and not the things that make...