The Origin and Diversification of Birds. Brusatte, S. L., O'Connor, J. K., & Jarvis, E. D. Curr Biol, 25(19):R888–R898, 2015. doi abstract bibtex Birds are one of the most recognizable and diverse groups of modern vertebrates. Over the past two decades, a wealth of new fossil discoveries and phylogenetic and macroevolutionary studies has transformed our understanding of how birds originated and became so successful. Birds evolved from theropod dinosaurs during the Jurassic (around 165-150 million years ago) and their classic small, lightweight, feathered, and winged body plan was pieced together gradually over tens of millions of years of evolution rather than in one burst of innovation. Early birds diversified throughout the Jurassic and Cretaceous, becoming capable fliers with supercharged growth rates, but were decimated at the end-Cretaceous extinction alongside their close dinosaurian relatives. After the mass extinction, modern birds (members of the avian crown group) explosively diversified, culminating in more than 10,000 species distributed worldwide today.
@Article{Brusatte2015,
author = {Brusatte, Stephen L. and O'Connor, Jingmai K. and Jarvis, Erich D.},
journal = {Curr Biol},
title = {The Origin and Diversification of Birds.},
year = {2015},
number = {19},
pages = {R888--R898},
volume = {25},
abstract = {Birds are one of the most recognizable and diverse groups of modern
vertebrates. Over the past two decades, a wealth of new fossil discoveries
and phylogenetic and macroevolutionary studies has transformed our
understanding of how birds originated and became so successful. Birds
evolved from theropod dinosaurs during the Jurassic (around 165-150
million years ago) and their classic small, lightweight, feathered,
and winged body plan was pieced together gradually over tens of millions
of years of evolution rather than in one burst of innovation. Early
birds diversified throughout the Jurassic and Cretaceous, becoming
capable fliers with supercharged growth rates, but were decimated
at the end-Cretaceous extinction alongside their close dinosaurian
relatives. After the mass extinction, modern birds (members of the
avian crown group) explosively diversified, culminating in more than
10,000 species distributed worldwide today.},
doi = {10.1016/j.cub.2015.08.003},
keywords = {Animals; Biodiversity; Biological Evolution; Birds, anatomy /&/ histology/classification/genetics; Dinosaurs, anatomy /&/ histology/classification/genetics; Extinction, Biological; Fossils, anatomy /&/ histology; Phylogeny},
language = {eng},
medline-pst = {ppublish},
pmid = {26439352},
school = {Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD 20815, USA. Electronic address: jarvis@neuro.duke.edu.},
timestamp = {2016.09.20},
}
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