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Excl. taxPaleontologists once generally identified unknown fossil forms based on anatomical features to the extent that they are recognizable in fossils. More recently, weak evidence, shifting definitions, and methodological assumptions seem to steamroll anatomy and common sense to the point of birds being identified as dinosaurs. What happened?
In If It Walks Like a Bird, author Timothy Clarey reviews the history of fossil interpretation, evaluates modern classification methods, and compares dinosaur and bird body plans to assess whether dinosaurs became birds. His analysis brings clarity to a realm so confused that different paleontologists often draw opposite conclusions about the origin and meaning of the same fossils. This book unpacks the following observations and more, as well as their implications for the most sensible and defensible way to categorize bird and dinosaur fossils.
• The head of a bird’s femur articulates with its hip in a fundamentally
different way than that of theropod dinosaurs.
• When walking, birds balance on their knees and not over
their hips like bipedal dinosaurs.
• Only birds have been observed to have feathers.
• All birds, extinct and extant, had beaks and flexible necks for
preening.
Should birds and dinosaurs be recognized as fundamentally distinct groups? They have significant differences in skeletal structure, locomotion, and physiology, after all. Clarey investigates the claim that birds are descended from dinosaurs and concludes the issue is by no means scientifically settled.
| Title: | If It Walks Like a Bird: 10 Myths Busted About Birds and Dinosaurs |
| Author: | Tim Clarey |
| Publisher: | Institute for Creation Research |
| Publication Date: | October 2026 |
| Audience: | General |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pages: | 224 |
| Dimensions (inches): | 6 x 9 x 1/2 inches |
| Shipping Weight: | TBD |
| ISBN-13: | 9781957850719 |
