Bird Quote by Alan Feduccia

Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth-bound, feathered dinosaur. But it's not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount…

— Alan Feduccia

The evidence is overwhelming that birds are dinosaurs.

— Robert T. Bakker

Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a…

— Jared Diamond

“Distinguishing the first true birds from their feathered dinosaur relations has become increasingly difficult. If we define birds as warm-blooded, feathered, bipedal animals that…

— Brian Switek

But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection.One day a…

— Terry Pratchett

“Birds were what became of dinosaurs. Those mountains of flesh whose petrified bones were on display at the Museum of Natural History had done…

— Jonathan Franzen

Birds are the last of the dinosaurs. Tiny velociraptors with wings. Devouring defenseless wiggly things and, and nuts, and fish, and, and other birds.…

— Neil Gaiman

Are we not witnessing a strange tableau of survival whenever a bird alights on the head of a crocodile, bringing together the evolutionary offspring…

— Anonymous

That I had never heard of such a bird did not surprise me… But others more experienced also did not know of the Carolina…

— Christopher Cokinos

“There are several types of comparative analysis for garnering evidence for an evolutionary adaptation: structural or behavioral resemblance in different phyletic lines owing to…

— Scott Atran

It has been argued that dinosaurs did not die out, but just evolved wings and flew away. At a certain level, this reasoning is…

— David M. Raup

On consideration, it is not surprising that Darwin's finches should recognize their own kind primarily by beak characters. The beak is the only prominent…

— David Lack